Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, it is always helpful to hear various views in this place and again, I heard a number of times in this debate that Canada is a small and open economy and needs to be out there winning. I would hope all parties would say that when Canadians get out there and compete, w

Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank the Conservative member for continuing to talk about the importance of free trade for the country and for the whole world. The use of trade builds bridges. It also creates economic growth, so that we can start to work on societies and make them stronger. I w

Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, I would gladly answer the question if I knew the answer. I did not follow the discussions at committee. I would best leave it for members to decide what they can infer from Hansard. That being said, the NDP continues to talk about human rights and issues germane to

Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member opposite for his leading question. Sometimes when he speaks, I think there is a greater distance than more than two and a half sword lengths. In fact, sometimes I think he is asking questions from Disneyland, most likely from Fantasyl

Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, as always, it is an honour to join the debate. This is my first opportunity to rise and give a full speech in this new chamber. It is not a secret that the former Conservative government was a strong believer in trade. Indeed, no Canadian prime minister in recent hi

Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, I certainly appreciate the member's bluster, and most of the last part of his remarks was bluster. I am surprised he even started talking about the Prime Minister's approach to trade. When he went to the trans-Pacific partnership meetings, he stood up Australia and

Justice  Mr. Speaker, that clearly was not the question. We are not talking about directing or influence. We are talking about discussions. The former attorney general was clear that “It is a pillar of our democracy that our system of justice be free from even the perception of political

Finance  Mr. Speaker, the government's spending is completely out of control, with year after year of massive deficits with absolutely no end in sight. Canadians know that the only way for this Prime Minister to pay for his spending is to raise taxes. Today's deficits are tomorrow's tax h

The Economy  Mr. Speaker, I toured every part of my riding over the winter break and what I discovered was that people are increasingly paying more because of the mistakes of the Prime Minister. After record investment to create the rapid bus transit system, as we have no rail in the Okanag

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard Statistics Canada’s plan to harvest financial transaction data and the claim by the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development that he found out about the plan through the media: (a) on what date did Statistics Canada begin developing the plan; (b) on wh

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to government policies and procedures: what are the government's policies and procedures when a sitting Cabinet minister is being investigated by the RCMP?

Opioid Crisis in Canada  Mr. Chair, the government's own member, the chair of the heritage committee, said that if this had happened in Ontario there would have been a much different response. I will say this to it. Leadership matters. In either 2007 or 2009 the government made a commitment to work on p

Opioid Crisis in Canada  Mr. Chair, I appreciate that. First, I have talked to the health critic from the Conservative side and she was at the committee last week where they were examining how much money has gone to it. The government, since it has come into power, has put about $50 million into this are

Opioid Crisis in Canada  Mr. Chair, this is a very challenging problem. People who are involved in it will say that a multi-pillar approach is needed for us to be able to more effectively respond to the opioid crisis, and that involves institutional change. As I said in my speech, there are safe injecti

Opioid Crisis in Canada  Madam Chair, it is an honour to join the debate and speak on behalf of the constituents I represent in Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola. I will begin the debate by sharing an event that a father recently shared with me. Roughly one month ago, this father discovered some very