Youth and Mental Health  Mr. Speaker, Canadians across the country have been feeling the impact of COVID-19 for the past year in many ways. The pandemic has indiscriminately affected a lot of Canadians' mental health, and this is especially true for young people. The psychosocial effects of COVID-19 dis

Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1  Madam Speaker, I would like to thank the House for allowing me to speak about the 2021 budget and explain why I support its implementation. First of all, I need to thank our very first female finance minister for putting forward a budget that should make all women and all parlia

Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1  Madam Speaker, if I did not say it, I definitely meant to say that I will be sharing my time with the member for Nepean. However, it goes without saying that women who have this sort of arrangement and who stay at home may experience poverty as seniors, and many of them, as they

Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1  Madam Speaker, in my speech I was not able to touch on every subject, but the aerospace sector is definitely being helped in this budget. Specifically in my province of Quebec, a lot of the sector would be helped through this budget. That is another reason I am quite proud of wha

Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1  Madam Speaker, this pandemic has really highlighted the need to support the most vulnerable, and many would argue, the most vulnerable in this pandemic have been young people and women. It was definitely time. People have been fighting for child care for many years, and I thank t

Canada Elections Act  Mr. Speaker, thank you for allowing me the time this afternoon to speak to Bill C-19, an act to amend the Canada Elections Act, COVID-19 response. For obvious reasons, I think this is an important bill that should be taken very seriously for the health and safety of Canadians. F

Canada Elections Act  Mr. Speaker, I agree that clarity is extremely important when discussing these bills and putting them into law. It is absolutely important the members on the committee take these comments into consideration. It is being sent to committee, so hopefully members of all parties can d

Canada Elections Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for his question. As members know, we are in the middle of a pandemic. Parliament has done all kinds of things that have never been done before. For example, we used new special powers to help all Canadians. It is very important that we take this

Canada Elections Act  Mr. Speaker, it is really important that during a minority Parliament, we are ready for this type of thing at any moment, because we never know when the government could fall. I think everybody in the House agrees with that. If we were a majority, we would not need to be looking

Canada Elections Act  Mr. Speaker, I do not think it is fair and I do not think the system is perfect. I definitely think that different changes could be made and that it should be studied further to ensure we move forward in the right way and in the best way for Canadians.

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I will share my time with the member for Kingston and the Islands. I am pleased to respond to the hon. member for Carleton's earlier observations about foreign investment in Canada. The issues raised in the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology's re

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I will repeat what he might have missed. Under the Investment Canada Act, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry must consult the Minister of Public Safety and get their recommendation on national security reviews. That process includes consulting all rele

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, I did not hear the comments made by my colleague, the parliamentary secretary, and so I cannot necessarily comment on what was said. However, being a member on the committee, I personally agreed with many of the recommendations put forward, as well as

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. I would say it depends on the negotiations and what is being talked about. I think in many cases the key element is confidentiality. Consider the example of the vaccine contracts that we just had. Everything had to be kept conf

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, this report was tabled and recommendations were made for the minister to consider. Obviously, opinions do change based on reports and recommendations. Again, I am not in the shoes of the person who made these comments. However, what I can say is that the whole point