Citizenship Act  Madam Speaker, I am pleased to rise today to support Bill C-6, an act to amend the Citizenship Act. I would like to begin with a list. This list includes Afghanistan, Argentina, China, Germany, Grenada, Haiti, India, Iran, Lebanon, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Sco

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Madam Speaker, our government is very committed to addressing this issue. We are looking at that as part of an overall assessment of the immigration and refugee system in terms of amendments that need to be made to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, speeding up processin

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Vancouver East for raising this important issue in the House and for her continued advocacy on the part of immigration issues as the opposition critic. This is an important debate on cessation issues in the former Bill C-31 enacted by the pr

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague has raised two points. One is the issue of doctor participation, and it is broader than just doctors; it is also nurse practitioners. Clearly, in the Carter decision, paragraph 132, the court went beyond the call to specify that nothing in its decis

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, as we have indicated, the palliative care financial allotments do not appear in this discreet legislation. The member has raised an issue about whether they should have appeared in the budget. I can assure the member that we are working to renew a lapsed agreement ca

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak to Bill C-14. I start with reference to the Supreme Court of Canada's Carter decision, about which we have heard much. In the opening paragraph of that ruling, the unanimous court said: It is a crime in Canada to assist another person in end

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Madam Speaker, I welcome the question from the opposition critic and her concern for the welfare of refugees in our country. We obviously share that concern. Our government shares it. I share it as a refugee myself. However, I find it highly implausible and a bit, let us say, inc

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Madam Speaker, the answer to that is simple. We concentrated on government-assisted refugees because we take seriously the duty of care that Canada has on the international stage to respond to a national and international humanitarian crisis. To purport that these individuals a

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Madam Speaker, the answer to that is no. Again, I am refreshed by the fact that a member of the Conservative opposition is actually citing an Islamic-based organization in Edmonton to support his proposition. If we recollect, our position was not only to accept 25,000 refugees

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Madam Speaker, the outpouring of support for the national effort to settle refugees in the country has been overwhelming. As the minister has stated repeatedly in the House, a grand national project of this size and scope is not without its challenges. We have met targets to br

Poland  Mr. Speaker, April is a very significant month for Polish Canadians. In 1940, over 20,000 innocent Poles were killed in the Katyn forest by the NKVD on the personal orders of Joseph Stalin. Every year in April, we honour the innocent Polish lives that were lost. We also recal

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, it will have a better impact because it is more honest, open, and transparent. We will be giving people something that they can rely upon and spend, knowing full well that it is not going to be clawed back later. A tactic like that is actually the politicization of

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, the short answer is that countless jobs can be created with this kind of investment. It takes a bold vision to agree to invest in infrastructure, to invest in the economy and to stimulate it, but it is actually not that bold a decision. It is quite facile when we hav

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for her question and her concerns on these very pressing issues. The budget involves choices. Any legislative policy, any government initiative obviously relates to choices. Balances are struck and certain issues will come to the fore and

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak to the 2016 budget. The document was created after listening to what thousands of Canadians wanted to see from their government. It reflects the priorities of Canadians and embodies the real change that the people of Parkdale—High Park voted for