Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, the debate has been providing some guidance as to what areas the committee can look at in order to make some recommendations, if it has any, for modifying this agreement. Really, the key question is this. In a country that is having such a difficult time and humani

Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to join this debate on the Canada-Colombia free trade agreement, Bill C-23. I spent three months on the international trade committee on first becoming a member of Parliament and so I have a great interest in this particular agreement. I have also

Employment Insurance Act  Mr. Speaker, it has been interesting listening to the member turn herself into a pretzel to justify voting for the Conservative government at this point. How can the member and her party have confidence in the government given that this proposal was not tabled earlier? The appro

Employment Insurance Act  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the comments by the member opposite in terms of the compassion that members of Parliament feel towards those who have lost their jobs and whose families are impacted. I certainly share that view. It was an interesting, contextual and philosophical set o

Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, I appreciated the thoughtful remarks of the member who just spoke, unlike the member for Cariboo—Prince George whose ideological tirade appeared to have absolutely no concern for humanitarian or environmental issues in Colombia whatsoever, and also unlike the comment

Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act  Madam Speaker, having been a member of the trade committee and having taken a great deal of interest in this free trade agreement previously, I have appreciated hearing the commentary of the various members. Environmental issues were the primary area of discussion and question th

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With respect to the Jericho Lands in Vancouver, British Columbia: (a) what are all of the documents outlining the government’s plans for the Jericho Lands; (b) which department or agency is in charge of the transition from military use to other use; (c) what is the timeline for t

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With respect to the University of British Columbia (UBC), for the fiscal years 2004 to present (and including Budget 2009): (a) which government departments, agencies, crown corporations and granting councils distributed research funding to UBC; (b) in what amounts were these fun

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With respect to Bill C-14, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (organized crime and protection of justice system participants) and Bill C-15, An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts: (a) does the governm

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With respect to crime prevention programs in the province of British Columbia: (a) what crime prevention programs does the government fund, and what are the dates that they were created, (i) what is the budget of each program, (ii) how many spaces do they provide, (iii) who is th

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise today to present a petition signed by concerned British Columbians calling on the government of China to release Falun gong practitioners from detention and end their persecution.

International Day of Peace  Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask for unanimous consent to adopt the following motion: “That in the opinion of the House the government should draft and implement a plan of action for addressing human trafficking in Canada for the period leading up to, during and beyond the 2010 V

Patent Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate the member for Winnipeg North for this initiative and especially the response and support that she is giving to the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign. I am a very strong supporter of that campaign. I had the chance to meet with some of th

Canada Consumer Product Safety Act  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to speak to Bill C-6, the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act. I support this legislation, but I would caution against any description of this as being the definitive approach to consumer product safety. The bill takes a relatively narrow slice of the ch

Medical Isotopes  Mr. Speaker, thousands of Canadians have had their life-saving cardiac and cancer tests unnecessarily delayed as a direct result of mismanagement by the Conservative government and the minister. Vancouver General Hospital performs as many as 50 tests every day, and at least six a