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Business of Supply Madam Speaker, this is a motion put forward by Conservatives to look at China–Canada relations. Again, the Conservatives believe that we should have amnesia and that we should forgive them for signing the FIPA trade agreement, for basically allowing the Chinese state-owned purcha
May 12th, 2022House debate
Gord JohnsNDP
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, it was the Conservative Stephen Harper government that did a trade deal that allowed a large oil sands project to be purchased by a Chinese state-owned company. It was that Conservative government that signed the FIPA trade agreement. The Conservatives want us to h
May 12th, 2022House debate
Gord JohnsNDP
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, I really appreciate my colleague's advocacy for human rights. One thing we know, and that she recalled, is that the Conservatives signed the FIPA, that trade agreement that locked in future generations for 31 years to a trade agreement with China. In this agreemen
May 12th, 2022House debate
Gord JohnsNDP
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, as my colleague probably recalls, Canada signed the FIPA trade agreement under the Stephen Harper Conservatives, which locked Canadians into a trade agreement for over 31 years that cannot be cancelled. Under this agreement, Chinese companies can seek redress again
May 12th, 2022House debate
Gord JohnsNDP
Petitions Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to table a petition on behalf of constituents in my riding from Courtenay, Cumberland and Royston. The petition calls on the government to support a national matching program for provincial farmers' market nutrition coupon programs across Canada that
May 12th, 2022House debate
Gord JohnsNDP
Online Streaming Act Madam Speaker, the member made it very clear that this bill needs to be examined and analyzed properly. We have the Liberals, the Green Party, the NDP and the Bloc who all want to do that. We actually want to get it to committee, but the Conservatives do not want to contribute an
May 11th, 2022House debate
Gord JohnsNDP
Online Streaming Act Madam Speaker, the member talked about average Canadians. My niece, who is a musician, plays in a band called The County Line with her partner, Hayden. I would not call her average. I would say she is above average. She just posted that her first concert, after two years, is goi
May 11th, 2022House debate
Gord JohnsNDP
Online Streaming Act Madam Speaker, maybe my colleague, the government House leader, could speak about the sense of urgency. Cultural workers and artists suffered the most under the pandemic. Many of them could not operate at all for two years, and many of them could not even access the programs that
May 11th, 2022House debate
Gord JohnsNDP
Online Streaming Act Madam Speaker, it is critical that we get some work done. Certainly, we do not want to be rushing legislation. We want to make sure that we are doing the work. That is why we supported sitting until midnight, so we can have proper debate. I was thinking about how the Conservativ
May 11th, 2022House debate
Gord JohnsNDP
Questions on the Order Paper With regard to Canada’s involvement in the development of regulations, standards and guidelines that would enable mining in the international seabed: (a) what actions is the government taking to promote good governance, environmental stewardship and the precautionary approach; (b
May 11th, 2022House debate
Gord JohnsNDP
Questions on the Order Paper With regard to the Public Health Agency of Canada’s report “Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD): A framework for action”, broken down by fiscal year since 2014-15: (a) what measures has the government taken to (i) develop national guidelines for screening and diagnosing FASD,
May 11th, 2022House debate
Gord JohnsNDP
Questions on the Order Paper With regard to RCMP actions under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, broken down by province, territory, and year since 2015: (a) excluding offenses related to cannabis, how many arrests were made for (i) possession, (ii) trafficking, (iii) possession for the purpose of tra
May 11th, 2022House debate
Gord JohnsNDP
Questions Passed as Orders for Returns With regard to the development of a national suicide prevention action plan since May 8, 2019: (a) what resources have been provided to establish culturally appropriate community-based suicide prevention; (b) what guidelines have been established since 2019 for best practices in
May 11th, 2022House debate
Gord JohnsNDP
Petitions Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to table this petition on behalf of people from Courtenay and Cumberland and Royston in my riding. They are calling on the federal government to support and initiate a national matching program for all provincial farmers' market nutrition coupon pro
May 11th, 2022House debate
Gord JohnsNDP
Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No. 1 Madam Speaker, we have skyrocketing inflation, but we also have a skyrocketing concentration of wealth and skyrocketing inequality. We have seen grocery store prices and fuel prices go up. We see bank fees go up, and yet banks are having record profits. Grocery stores have record
May 9th, 2022House debate
Gord JohnsNDP