Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Mr. Speaker, that is such an important question. For eight years, I sat at a city council table and saw that perfectly affordable housing was being bought by large corporations and upzoned for them, and then almost a quarter of the condos they were building were sitting empty for

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to follow up on the comments that my colleague from North Island—Powell River just made on how the grocery chains have made it harder for people to eat healthy food. This morning, there was a meeting of parliamentarians, senators and stakeholders on anti-pover

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the speech from my colleague from North Island—Powell River. She speaks about the bar of dignity a lot. I hear it a lot. I do a lot of work with the disability community, and they appreciate the human rights lens the member always talks about. Does she

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Mr. Speaker, I always enjoy the speeches from the member from the Bloc. I always learn a lot and I really appreciate the research that is done. Just in the closing remarks, the member talked about the oligopoly of the grocery chains in Canada. Really, only three families take so

Government Business No. 30—Proceedings on Bill C-56  Madam Speaker, I want to follow up on the last points the member made around rent and who is really going to benefit from the GST exemption. Of course I believe that the GST exemption is a good idea. I wish it had happened many years ago. Would the member mind just expanding on

Government Business No. 30—Proceedings on Bill C-56  Madam Speaker, it is good to stand in the House today to talk about a very important bill. It is the idea that we are going to get some purpose-built rental housing built. To the member's point, it is not going to be as fast as we need, and that is why we need other measures outs

Government Business No. 30—Proceedings on Bill C-56  Madam Speaker, the member talked about there being more funding this year than there was last year and how the current government and previous governments did not invest in housing. We know that housing is a human right. I very much appreciated the question today from my collea

Government Business No. 30—Proceedings on Bill C-56  Madam Speaker, we need to get this work done. This morning I was at a anti-poverty event. I can tell members that people do not have time to wait for housing, for food and for medication, pharmacare. We have a lot of work to do. I wonder if the member across the aisle could tell

Persons with Disabilities  Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are abandoning caregivers again. They promised to make the Canada caregiver credit refundable, yet people are still waiting. We are in an affordability crisis. Unpaid carers are struggling to keep up with the cost of living. Meanwhile, the Liberals are m

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I really appreciate this opportunity to ask the member a question, because I am receiving emails. I want to speak specifically about a member in my riding who has been waiting seven months for the Canada greener homes grant. They were informed that they were eligibl

Air Transportation  Mr. Speaker, today Air Canada announced obscene quarterly profits of $1.2 billion. At the same time, another passenger was forced to drag themselves off an Air Canada flight, because the necessary wheel chair and staff were not in place. It is degrading and a violation of human r

Enhancing Transparency and Accountability in the Transportation System Act  Madam Speaker, certainly, a noise pollution caucus is a good idea. As it relates to airlines, I think we would get a lot of community input from that. I just want to highlight simply the amount of and increase in cargo traffic. We now live in a society where people want things d

Enhancing Transparency and Accountability in the Transportation System Act  Madam Speaker, I do not necessarily want to pre-empt what witnesses say when they come to committee. This is an area where I always like to hear from witnesses and the community first, so I will leave that open. However, I will reiterate my ask that there be a public health offic

Enhancing Transparency and Accountability in the Transportation System Act  Madam Speaker, my colleague from Skeena—Bulkley Valley has been doing a lot of work around this exact topic and has been advocating better rules and responsibilities for corporations and airports around passenger safety and passenger customer service. I think there is a lot of wo

Enhancing Transparency and Accountability in the Transportation System Act  Madam Speaker, what we know for sure is that greedy corporations are putting profits before people. This is driving a number of these problems. When I think about persons with disabilities, this is an area we know about and that corporations know about, but they have done nothing