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Petitions Madam Speaker, the final petition I am tabling today highlights the situation of the energy sector and the fact that the Trans Mountain expansion project would create many jobs and new opportunities for Canadians. It also highlights the benefit of Canadian energy and calls on the
December 14th, 2021House debate
Garnett GenuisConservative
Petitions Madam Speaker, I rise on the same point of order. Respectfully, I believe the NDP House leader may not have noticed, but I actually went last. All of the other members who wanted to table petitions went before me. Also, the member will also know the standing order prescribes a l
December 14th, 2021House debate
Garnett GenuisConservative
Petitions Mr. Speaker, I have a number of petitions to present today. The first petition is with respect to Bill S-223. This is a bill on forced organ harvesting and trafficking, which a number of colleagues have tabled petitions on already. This is the same bill that was put forward in
December 14th, 2021House debate
Garnett GenuisConservative
Petitions Mr. Speaker, the next petition that I am tabling highlights concerns about the situation in Ethiopia. Some of the specific information in this petition is a bit dated, but the conflict, in particular in the Tigray region, continues to be a significant concern for many Canadians a
December 14th, 2021House debate
Garnett GenuisConservative
Petitions Mr. Speaker, the next petition is from people who are concerned about the definition used for conversion therapy in a number of conversion therapy bills. Petitioners want to see efforts made to fix the definition. They support efforts to ban conversion therapy, but they want to c
December 14th, 2021House debate
Garnett GenuisConservative
Petitions Mr. Speaker, the next petition highlights an issue that is very important in my riding: carbon capture and storage technology. It is an important tool for fighting back against the challenges we face in terms of climate change. Petitioners note the government's commitments with
December 14th, 2021House debate
Garnett GenuisConservative
Petitions Mr. Speaker, the next petition highlights the issue of Canadians struggling with mental health challenges and a bill that passed in the last Parliament allowing medically facilitated suicide for those facing mental health challenges. Petitioners note that the Canadian Mental He
December 14th, 2021House debate
Garnett GenuisConservative
Petitions Mr. Speaker, the next petition highlights the persecution of Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims in China. It outlines a number of the abuses they have faced: birth suppression, political and religious indoctrination, arbitrary detention, separation of children from families, invasi
December 14th, 2021House debate
Garnett GenuisConservative
Petitions Mr. Speaker, the next petition I am tabling highlights the human rights situation in Burma. It notes that in the coup earlier this year, there were a large number of people killed and detained. There is also the systematic killing, abducting and torturing of civilians by Myanmar
December 14th, 2021House debate
Garnett GenuisConservative
Petitions Mr. Speaker, the next petition highlights another international challenge: the situation in the Republic of Artsakh, also known as the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Following the Armenian-Azerbaijan war a ceasefire was established, but there are continuing concerns related to the dete
December 14th, 2021House debate
Garnett GenuisConservative
Petitions Madam Speaker, I have a number of petitions to present in the House today, and I appreciate the opportunity. The first petition, and I know these are greatly anticipated by my colleagues, especially the Minister of Justice, who will want to listen carefully to this one, because
December 13th, 2021House debate
Garnett GenuisConservative
Petitions Madam Speaker, the next petition is with respect to the carbon tax and the GST. The petitioners are concerned that the government's carbon tax system results in double taxation, a tax on a tax. They want to see the government eliminate the GST on federal carbon tax levies and ad
December 13th, 2021House debate
Garnett GenuisConservative
Petitions Madam Speaker, the third petition I am tabling is with respect to organ harvesting and trafficking. We have Bill S-223, which the Senate has now adopted unanimously. It is the third time the Senate has unanimously passed a bill on organ harvesting and trafficking and has sent it
December 13th, 2021House debate
Garnett GenuisConservative
Petitions Madam Speaker, the next petition highlights the human rights situation of Falun Gong practitioners. The petitioners call on the government to apply Magnitsky-style sanctions to those involved in these gross violations of human rights. They mention a number of specific individual
December 13th, 2021House debate
Garnett GenuisConservative
Petitions Madam Speaker, the next petition highlights concerns about Bill C-7 from the last Parliament. The petitioners note this bill raised significant concerns from the disability community about how this would really push people toward death instead of giving them options for life. T
December 13th, 2021House debate
Garnett GenuisConservative