Persons with Disabilities  Mr. Speaker, today is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1982. The 2008 theme is "Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Dignity and justice for all of us". Approximately 10% of the world's popula

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply  Mr. Speaker, I will serve the member's parents to the best of my abilities. I cannot speak to the past on climate change. The Liberal Party did sign Kyoto. The environment and the economy are inextricably linked, as our platform made very clear in the last election, but we reall

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply  Mr. Speaker, as a former university professor in meteorology, climatology and climate change, and as the lead author for North America on the intergovernmental panel on climate change that won the Nobel Prize, I would like to know the hon. member's baseline for reducing greenhous

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply  Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Scarborough Centre. I am humbled to stand in this great hall and give thanks to the people of Etobicoke North who have given me the greatest honour of my life. I promise to serve my community with humility and to the b

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply  Mr. Speaker, over one million Canadian children live in poverty. There are 83,000 children in my home city of Toronto who go to school hungry. Some 550,000 households live below the poverty line. Poverty did not get a single mention in the throne speech. What will the government