Instruction to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs Regarding Bill C-14  Madam Speaker, why does the hon. member want to prevent this House from debating the Standing Orders on the one day per Parliament set aside for doing precisely that?

Instruction to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs Regarding Bill C-14  Madam Speaker, I have no choice but to find myself in violent agreement with the member that there should be proper consultations. I would just emphasize that those consultations should be with members of the House, not just with House leaders of recognized parties. When there i

Instruction to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs Regarding Bill C-14  Madam Speaker, the hon. member did not listen or he did not want to listen. IDEA, the organization I referred to that ranks global democracies across a series of metrics, draws on various metrics, and Freedom House is part of the input data that IDEA uses. IDEA ranks democratic

Instruction to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs Regarding Bill C-14  Madam Speaker, with respect to these issues of representation, the Conservatives supported the bill saying that no province's number of seats should drop, and I think I have been clear about that. I also think the principle of representation by population is an important principl

Instruction to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs Regarding Bill C-14  Madam Speaker, the Bloc members point out we are into a debate on a different motion than what was scheduled for today, which was the one day when we were supposed to be talking about the rules of the House and the impact on our democracy. I will endeavour to make the link. The

Instruction to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs Regarding Bill C-14  Madam Speaker, I will be sharing my time. This really is quite incredible. There is one day in the entire life of Parliament set aside for debate about the state of our democracy, and in particular the rules of order that govern this place. Unfortunately, we see other parties th

Instruction to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs Regarding Bill C-14  It is in Hansard.

Instruction to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs Regarding Bill C-14  Mr. Speaker, I would like to talk a little bit about the Alberta nation.

Instruction to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs Regarding Bill C-14  This is not a joke, Mr. Speaker. We have a distinct culture, different festivals. We use the same language as some other parts of the country, just like Quebec uses the same language as some other parts of the world. Does the member agree with me that Alberta is a nation and has

Foreign Affairs  Madam Speaker, respectfully, it was not a trick question. I asked the member about the arbitrary detention of a religious leader and in another case the arbitrary detention of a Canadian citizen. The member talked on and on, reading a response about how the government has allege

Foreign Affairs  Madam Speaker, last Tuesday, May 24, was the global day of prayer for China. It was also Cardinal Joseph Zen's day in court in Hong Kong on charges of “conspiracy to collude with foreign forces” for his work with a fund established to provide legal aid to democracy protesters fac

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, respectfully, the point I would make on this is a bit more subtle. It is to say that there are barriers that people face that are not necessarily the result of the intention of somebody to discriminate. There may be issues of unconscious bias or there may be struct

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I think meritocracy is an ideal. We want to live in a society where everybody is judged based on merit, but we have to also acknowledge that we are inevitably going to be imperfect in living out that ideal of meritocracy. That is why we need to try to understand an

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I think my hon. friend is maybe dancing around Quebec's Bill 21 a bit, so if that is the question, I have been on the record repeatedly saying that I strongly disagree with Bill 21. My own province of Alberta has certainly been blessed by francophone immigration.

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to rise today to speak to a very sensitive subject, but it is a very important subject. I want to note that I will be splitting my time. Different members of the House have different experiences with the issue of racism. Quite obvious