Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the fourth report of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights entitled “Access to Justice Part 1: Court Challenges Program”. Pursuant to Standing Order 109 the committee requests that the government

An Act to Amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)  Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague, the member for Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, for the very strong contributions he made, both in the debate in the House and at committee. I also appreciate working with him. With respect to those comments, I think that what I am sa

An Act to Amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)  Madam Speaker, in my view, the Supreme Court spoke to Gloria Taylor and people in the same class as Gloria Taylor. I do not believe the Supreme Court was speaking to someone whose death was not naturally foreseeable. We disagree as to what the terms of the Carter decision are. We

An Act to Amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)  Madam Speaker, I very much appreciate my colleague's question. He has made a tremendous contribution to this debate. Yes, I believe that Kay Carter would have qualified based on the criteria in the bill, as our Minister of Health said.

An Act to Amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)  Madam Speaker, I will share my time with my hon. colleague from Winnipeg North. I rise today in the House to speak to Bill C-14, for the last time, I hope. Although it was sometimes quite heated, I think that the debate on Bill C-14 brought out the best in us as parliamentarian

An Act to Amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)  Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague fromSherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan for his third intervention today on this issue. I appreciate his passion and commitment to the cause he is trying to defend. The member brought a number of amendments to committee, I think probably i

An Act to Amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)  Madam Speaker, I want to thank the member for Victoria for his passionate speech and his incredibly dedicated work on this file. It has been an honour to work with him. I want to say that the Canadian Medical Association differs with what he just said. There have been many docto

An Act to Amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)  Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the Minister of Justice for her very carefully considered and very appropriate and thoughtful review of the Senate's amendments. I want to come back to the issue of “reasonably foreseeable”. The minister recognized that in the event that “reasonably

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, there are two things. I repeat what I said during my speech, I believe that when something is illegal, regardless of a government's intention to make it legal, it is illegal. We all see what is happening in the Senate with medically-assisted dying. Who knows, despi

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for her good question. Personally, I agree that police officers should spend their time on the things that are most important. I agree that decriminalization may help to distribute certain resources more effectively. However, I think that a

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I always appreciate the good humour of my hon. colleague. For my entire history as a mayor and a city councillor, which lasted for 20 years, I dealt frequently with the police on issues related to marijuana. I was constantly faced with the situation where the police

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, let me underline that when I talked about his experience, I was not talking about him as a consumer but rather as a Canadian expert in the field who will help us on the path to legalization, but restriction and regulation along with it. He is going to be working with

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with my hon. colleague from Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel. The member is definitely the best dressed member in this chamber. Given that this is the first time I have risen today, I want to express my condolences to the victims, their families

Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, on the Canada child benefit in terms of amount, I do not believe there is any intention that I have seen in this budget to change the actual amounts that families would be yielded under the benefit. I would have to review the document for the future years in terms of

Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I do not believe that the amount he is referring to, whatever the court costs are, relate to money that would be spent in Bill C-15 or under the budget itself. I know that the hon. member will join me in saying that since I personally do not have the knowledge of thi