Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act  Madam Speaker, most Canadians, if not all, have dealt with the CBSA at some point or other when travelling. We never know what can happen, what kind of event will take place and what kinds of dealings we will have with the CBSA. Hopefully all Canadians will be able to benefit fro

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act  Madam Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the member for Sherbrooke. I appreciate the opportunity to rise today and speak to Bill C-3, our proposed accountability legislation for the Canada Border Services Agency. Specifically, this bill would establish an independent, arm'

Justice  Mr. Speaker, victims of sexual assault deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. They need to know that judges hearing their cases will not be influenced by the myths and stereotypes that frequently surface during sexual assault cases. Would the right hon. Prime Minister p

Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement Implementation Act  Madam Speaker, I would like to recognize that it was obviously not a great moment when the plant in Oshawa closed, which was before the agreement was signed. Uncertainty does not help. We wanted to make sure that this deal was as good as it could be for Canadians. We were not g

Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement Implementation Act  Madam Speaker, as I mentioned in my speech, this new negotiation includes some good news for Quebec's aluminum sector. The old agreement had no protections for that sector, but now, in the new agreement, 70% of all materials must come from North America. This will really help Que

Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement Implementation Act  Madam Speaker, the agreement talks about the indigenous population and how to protect them. That was already included. I mentioned it in my speech.

Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement Implementation Act  Madam Speaker, I am pleased to speak to Bill C-4, an act to implement the agreement between Canada, the United States of America and the United Mexican States. When negotiations began over a year ago, I remember how much uncertainty there was about what would happen if we did no

Religious Freedom  Mr. Speaker, we all remember this day three years ago when a man walked into the great mosque in Quebec City and took the lives of six people, injured 19 others, and forever changed the lives of numerous families simply because they were Muslim. Today we commemorate the lives of

Holiday Greetings  Mr. Speaker, I rise in the House today to thank the people of Saint-Laurent from the bottom of my heart for entrusting me with a second mandate. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of my volunteers who donated their time and money to make it possible for me to ret

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply  Madam Speaker, I am willing to work alongside the member for Vancouver East in order to look for strategies to help improve these issues in society. I will also be speaking to the ministers who are responsible for these files in order to try to push this along and help.

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply  Madam Speaker, we have already committed to investing $40 billion for the national housing strategy. That money will begin to be available as of January 2020. We are extremely excited that money will finally be going into this program in order to start building affordable housing

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply  Madam Speaker, yes, we know that a lot more needs to be done in order to tackle the opioid crisis and that not enough has been done up until now, but we have invested millions of dollars to help with this crisis. We made help available in some of the big city centres, and with ph

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply  Madam Speaker, it is an honour for me to rise in the House today to speak to the Speech from the Throne. Thank you for giving me this opportunity. I will be splitting my time with the member for Scarborough Centre. I spent the past five months in the beautiful riding of Saint-L

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply  Mr. Speaker, this being my first time speaking in the House in the 43rd Parliament, I want to thank my constituents in Saint-Laurent for trusting me to represent them in the House for a second term. I thank all my constituents in Saint-Laurent, all the volunteers who helped with

Status of Women  Mr. Speaker, every 17 minutes today, CALACS francophone d'Ottawa is sharing sexual assault survivors' stories as a reminder that a woman is sexually assaulted every 17 minutes in Canada. The strength and resilience of survivors have led to a renewed commitment to end gender-base