Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Safety. I am pleased to speak on the unique history of the Communications Security Establishment Canada and the vital role it has played in working with its partners to help keep

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, it is questions and comments, and so I can speak as well. I was just saying to my friend that, as he saw last night, Parliament has the full ability to pull in the chief heads of our security regulatory agencies. That exists right now. On this side of the House we h

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, it was interesting listening to our friend from Malpeque speak this morning. He was talking about needing parliamentary oversight, and we saw an example of parliamentary oversight last night in the Senate. The Senate committee pulled in three major people involved wi

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I will thank my colleague for his input today and also for the work he is doing on the Standing Committee on National Defence, where we are looking at the care of our ill and injured soldiers. When we talk about ill and injured, we are talking about both the physical

Irene Anderson  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to pay tribute to a true Canadian pioneer, Irene Anderson. Irene was born on the family farm at Green Ridge, Manitoba, in 1910. She enjoyed growing up on the farm and loved horses. Irene worked in the general store and in 1937 moved to Pine Falls, Manitob

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I just want to remind the member that right now at the national defence committee, of which she is a member, we are dealing with a report on the care of the ill and injured and how we take care of those members of the Canadian Armed Forces. As we go forward in drafti

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, as the minister said earlier, he has made this a priority. The Chief of the Defence Staff has now made this a priority and has instructed those involved to collaborate and work together to finalize these inquiries as quickly as possible. It is my understanding that m

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Veterans Affairs. Let me begin by extending my deepest and heartfelt condolences to all those who have been affected by the recent tragedies. Our thoughts and prayers are with these indi

National Defence  Mr. Speaker, I should remind the hon. member that in actuality, Parliament has the power, through its committees, to call agencies before the committee that is responsible for them. The Standing Committee on National Defence has the authority and the power to call the commissione

National Defence  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for the opportunity to once again assure this House and Canadians that the foreign intelligence activities of Communications Security Establishment Canada are lawful and serve to protect Canadians from foreign threats. As a former solicitor g

Situation in Ukraine  Mr. Speaker, as this is my last chance to get up today, I want to thank all of my colleagues for participating in tonight's debate, for raising awareness, for condemning the Yanukovych regime and the brutality that has been taking place on the streets of Kiev and so many other co

Situation in Ukraine  Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my friend from B.C. for his intervention tonight. I also want to thank him because a lot of people often forget, going back to when we came forward in 2008 with my bill for recognizing the Holodomor as a genocide, that he seconded my bill. I have alwa

Situation in Ukraine  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice, for his speech and for his work in his previous portfolio as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and for his incredible knowledge of the situation in Ukraine. We hav

Situation in Ukraine  Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the critic for foreign affairs from the Liberal Party for his intervention. I appreciated his support earlier today for the motion passed unanimously in the House condemning the violence in Ukraine. He mentioned the young people and that they are a

Situation in Ukraine  Mr. Speaker, those are great ideas. I know a lot of ideas are coming forward from the Ukrainian Canadian Congress and others, who have boots on the ground and are watching everything unfold. I know that our ambassadors, Ambassador Troy Lulashnyk, and Ambassador Andrew Bennett, t