Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, let me start by congratulating you on your 10-year anniversary in that chair as Deputy Speaker and your distinguished service as a parliamentarian in this chamber, respected by every one of your 337 colleagues. I want to speak today about something that is criticall

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, I thank the member opposite for his contributions, and I can assure him that, notwithstanding the efficacy of the clause-by-clause analysis, there were definitely efforts to delay and potentially stop this bill on the part of his colleagues. With respect to the q

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, I just find this unfortunate. Perhaps it feeds that member's narrative in her own riding to spread disinformation or untruths about what we were doing as a government, but Bill C-10 would not affect individual users of social media, which we have said about 45 to 5

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, I would simply put it to the member opposite that, when briefs are received by the committee, they are also received by Parliament. Those briefs are a matter of public record and are available to all of us for the purposes of informing the debate we are now having.

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the member for Kitchener—Conestoga. Pride Month starts tomorrow in my home province of Ontario, and I can think of no more opportune time to be working on the passage of Bill C-6 in the House of Commons. During Pride, LGBTQ2 Canadia

Justice  Mr. Speaker, allow me to quote the Ethics Commissioner on this very issue. He stated, “Making donations to a political party, or to a particular riding, does not indicate in itself a friendship. It is perfectly legal to make political donations.” What we want is qualified candida

Justice  Mr. Speaker, we have taken a significant and important step to ensure that the process for naming judges is transparent and accountable to Canadians. Those reforms include revamping the judicial advisory committees that provide independent recommendations to the minister. That ha

Justice  Mr. Speaker, we have put in place a judicial appointment process to choose qualified candidates who also reflect our diversity. With regard to the situation the member raised, I would point out that the Ethics Commissioner said that simply making a donation did not constitute a

Justice  Mr. Speaker, the tweets were posted by the Department of Justice and not the minister himself. Furthermore, apologies have already made to the individuals concerned. Apologies were made, and this issue, this situation, was addressed.

Residential Schools  Mr. Speaker, in the orange shirt story, Phyllis Webstad writes about the abuse she endured as a Secwpemc girl at a residential school, denied the ability to wear her favourite shirt, to speak her language, to practise her culture. After a year of abuse, the story concludes with a

Justice  Madam Speaker, we take the issue of exploitation and trafficking extremely seriously, and we have worked diligently to address this through provisions that currently exist in the Criminal Code and through funding investments included in our most recent budget. That funding woul

Justice  Madam Speaker, I would like to thank the member for Sydney—Victoria for his advocacy on this important issue. While we will never be able to fully right the wrongs since the wrongful arrest and imprisonment of Donald Marshall Jr., I am proud to say that a lot has changed since t

Protection of Freedom of Conscience Act  Madam Speaker, I rise today to speak to Bill C-268, the protection of freedom of conscience act. This bill proposes to create two new offences to protect the freedom of conscience of health care professionals in the context of medical assistance in dying, or MAID. The first offe

Protection of Freedom of Conscience Act  Madam Speaker, in light of the extensive protection for conscience rights in the charter; in the statute originally passed, Bill C-14, which the member opposite mentioned; and in the Carter decision, I am personally unaware of a single instance of a prosecution having been levied

Indigenous Affairs  Madam Speaker, we take very seriously the issues that relate to indigenous reconciliation and UNDRIP. We thank the member opposite for her contributions to this matter in her previous role as minister of justice. The government stood behind Romeo Saganash's private member's bill