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Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, the Liberals talk about all the good they are going to do for the people of Canada and how they are saving them money. Could the member tell me what his government is going to do about the fact that in North America, the largest number of vehicles sold in any given y

May 7th, 2019House debate

Jim EglinskiConservative

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the request by the Jasper Chamber of Commerce to change the designation of the Icefields Parkway so that it could stay open year-round and benefit from full highway status: (a) how many requests to change de designation were received and were they reviewed by the M

May 3rd, 2019House debate

Jim EglinskiConservative

Robert Wagner Dowling  Mr. Speaker, it is with great sadness that I rise today to say farewell to Robert Wagner Dowling, who passed away at age 95, leaving behind his wife Olga and his two children, Lori and Robert. Bob grew up on a farm in Ohaton, Alberta. He was an avid baseball player, an award-win

May 3rd, 2019House debate

Jim EglinskiConservative

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present a petition calling on Parliament to designate every third Thursday in May Vyshyvanka Day throughout Canada. Every year, thousands of Ukrainian Canadians celebrate Vyshyvanka Day to show that an embroidered shirt is in their national genetic c

April 10th, 2019House debate

Jim EglinskiConservative

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Madam Speaker, the member has a prison facility in his area. He mentioned during his speech that he has toured the facility, has seen the good and bad parts of it and has talked to the guards and the prisoners, just as I did with the institution in Grande Cache. That institution

February 21st, 2019House debate

Jim EglinskiConservative

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Mr. Speaker, I have heard from prison guards who work at the Grande Cache Institution in my area about the lack of training and the need for more training, especially in health care and dealing with people with mental health situations. I wonder if the member would like to commen

February 21st, 2019House debate

Jim EglinskiConservative

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Mr. Speaker, the member is absolutely right. Is segregation going to help them? No. We need to look at this medically. We need to look at training our staff members to understand what the inmates are going through. They need to know. To put an inmate into a locked cell and let th

February 21st, 2019House debate

Jim EglinskiConservative

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Mr. Speaker, based on my conversations with prison guards who work in my area and in other parts of Alberta, they were not consulted. They are frustrated, because they want to have the tools to provide a great service for this country and for the prisoners they are looking after.

February 21st, 2019House debate

Jim EglinskiConservative

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Mr. Speaker, it all boils down to consultation. Every witness other than the minister and his staff said there was no external consultation. We cannot be expected to know what it is going to cost to renovate the institution in my area unless we talk to people on the ground. We

February 21st, 2019House debate

Jim EglinskiConservative

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Mr. Speaker, I am here today to speak to Bill C-83, an act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and another act. A lot of people do not realize that on any given day in Canada we have roughly 40,000 plus prisoners in custody. They are in eight maximum-security f

February 21st, 2019House debate

Jim EglinskiConservative

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member for his speech and his work with us at committee. Could the member tell us his concerns for the safety of correctional officers and other inmates because of the removal of disciplinary segregation and the introduction of a needle ex

February 21st, 2019House debate

Jim EglinskiConservative

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Mr. Speaker, as a member of the public safety committee, I was quite surprised by the number of problems we had with this bill initially. Witnesses appearing at committee regarding the bill said that they had not been consulted. Even the correctional investigator of Canada told t

February 21st, 2019House debate

Jim EglinskiConservative

Canada–Madagascar Tax Convention Implementation Act, 2018  Mr. Speaker, we can come up with all the regulations we want as an individual country. Parts of Bill S-6 and Bill C-82 are about that. However, he talked about the importance of working with other governments from other countries. Could he perhaps exemplify what he meant when he

February 21st, 2019House debate

Jim EglinskiConservative

Canada–Madagascar Tax Convention Implementation Act, 2018  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank you for recognizing that. I normally never wear sunglasses. Even as a policeman, I never wore sunglasses. The decor is great, the chamber is great, but the lights are bothering a lot of members. The last few days I have been going home with head

February 21st, 2019House debate

Jim EglinskiConservative

Indigenous Languages Act  Mr. Speaker, I asked the parliamentary secretary earlier if she was willing to co-operate and work with the opposition parties. After listening to the conversations of my colleagues in the NDP and members across the aisle, I think we are all ready to get going on this. Let us thr

February 7th, 2019House debate

Jim EglinskiConservative