Canadian Organ Donor Registry Act  Madam Speaker, I congratulate the member. I have found in my short time here that quite often private member's bills really do reflect the spirit that this place should have, coming forward in the national good. What I hear is the need for leadership, directed appropriately at t

Battle of the Atlantic  Mr. Speaker, yesterday I had the honour of laying a wreath at the Centennial Flame on behalf of Surrey's veterans to commemorate the Battle of the Atlantic. Throughout World War II, convoys battled storms, submarines, and air strikes, keeping Britain's lifeline open. Brave Cana

Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, the member and his family have a long history of serving the House, so there must be some corporate memory. Let us talk about 400,000 lost manufacturing jobs during the Conservative reign or the CIBC finding that job quality sunk to its lowest level in 20 years. Th

Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, there seems to be a bit of a contradiction in the Conservative's approach. We have heard from time to time, on other matters, that parents should be left to decide for themselves how to spend their money. That was the argument they had against any kind of mandated ch

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, this is a question on behalf of one of my constituents who recognizes the efforts made to ensure that medical practitioners have the freedom of conscience to not participate in this process. My constituent wonders if that protection extends to the right not to refer

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, I thank the two previous speakers because between them they laid out the essence of the challenge facing the House in coming to a reasonable decision on this. It is very difficult to get something as complex as this right the first time, and I can appreciate why

Retirement Congratulations  Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to salute an old friend and colleague, Jim Harrison of CHNL Radio in Kamloops, on his forthcoming retirement as news director. Jim has led one of British Columbia's most celebrated newsrooms for over 40 years, practically since the station signed o

Income Tax Act  Madam Speaker, let us take the politics out of it and talk about the ideas. I think it was economist Rhys Kesselman in 2001 who did the groundwork on the concept of the tax-free savings account that laid the track toward that particular measure. Even he suggested that the doubli

Income Tax Act  Madam Speaker, I have a quick question about the concept of increasing the CPP contributions. Hon. members on the other side call it a tax. Does the member agree with that characterization?

Income Tax Act  Mr. Speaker, I was intrigued to hear the hon. member talk about what he would do if he were leading a campaign and the questions he would asked. There is a job opening there. Maybe he will get his chance. The question on Kinder Morgan is a big one, especially in metro Vancouver

Rick Hart  Mr. Speaker, this summer my community lost a champion with the untimely passing of Rick Hart on July 2. Fleetwood is the geographic heart of my riding, and Rick was truly the heart of Fleetwood. As the neighbourhood association president, Rick worked tirelessly to preserve our p

Health  Madam Speaker, Canadians only need to turn on the news to see the devastating effect that the misuse of fentanyl is having in our communities. My home province of British Columbia has already declared a public health emergency after a dramatic increase in the number of overdose

National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians Act  Mr. Speaker, as a first step, the bill will move us a lot farther down the road than we have been. With the dynamics of our friends on the opposite side, better is always possible, which is the terms we have used, so we will work on that. I wanted to specifically focus in on one

Standing Orders and Procedure  Mr. Speaker, because I had not been a regular consumer of question period before I came to this place, I have noticed as a new member that it seems we have set up a rather interesting and maybe tradition-laden practice of highly charged partisan questions along the lines of “When

Salaries Act  Mr. Speaker, I have heard in recent days a bit of anxiousness about introducing pay equity and the timetable for doing it. Now we know in the House and across Canada how long we would have to wait for pay equity for women if the Conservatives were still in power. It would not hap