Bills of Exchange Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech. I am fortunate to serve with her on the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, which is studying systemic racism within police services in Canada. I know she is doing a great job on that file, and I thank her

Bills of Exchange Act  Mr. Speaker, I really appreciated my colleague's speech. I thank her for that. This is difficult for people like me who did not experience the atrocities that others in the community did. What we can do is put ourselves in their shoes and be allies. It is our duty as parliamenta

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. He mentioned the December 18 deadline and seemed worried that we are moving too fast with this bill, but in my opinion, the government has already asked the courts for enough extensions. Does my colleague agree that the reasonab

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. I appreciate the approach he took in talking about the situation in correctional institutions. Then again, I heard him refer to this bill as radical. Personally, when I think of this bill, I think of compassion. I cannot help but

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his very poignant remarks. I agree with him that we need to take the time to study the bill carefully. The Bloc Québécois was actually relieved that the bill excludes individuals suffering solely from a mental illness from eligibility for me

Victims of the October Crisis  Mr. Speaker, it is not the Bloc Québécois that is calling for a formal apology for the war measures, it is the victims of wrongful arrest, detention without charge and intimidation, whose words I will share today. It is people like Serge Mongeau, who said, and I quote, “The wors

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. Of course, the Bloc Québécois welcomes the motion. In Quebec, the tourism industry and the restaurant industry have been going through difficult times, as elsewhere in the country. In the Gaspé Peninsula and the Lower St. Lawrenc

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. He is my riding neighbour and I want to acknowledge him. He spoke a lot about the regional relief and recovery fund, the RRRF, which was well received in my region of the Lower St. Lawrence and the Gaspé. I would like to take t

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I like the fact that my colleague brought us back to the beginning of the pandemic. Programs were launched quickly and the government forgot one especially important industry. One of Quebec's great tourism regions is Gaspé, which is located in the riding represent

Income Tax Act  Madam Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for her speech. Bill C-9 is a good bill, but it does not solve every problem. More specialized sectors such as air transportation and regional airports are going to need more targeted aid. Their losses are in the billions of dollars. Al

Climate Change Accountability Act  moved that Bill C-215, An Act respecting Canada’s fulfillment of its greenhouse gas emissions reduction obligations, be read the second time and referred to a committee. Madam Speaker, I am deeply moved to rise today to present, support and defend the climate change accountabili

Climate Change Accountability Act  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. Of course we did a lot of research when preparing Bill C-215. It is based on an international agreement among a number of countries, the Paris Agreement. Canada ratified this agreement but is not obligated to enforce it in it

Climate Change Accountability Act  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his interesting question. He is right. Canada has plenty of natural resources, which is what makes for that beautiful diversity. Unfortunately, I do not agree with him. There are indeed some energy sources that are more polluting than othe

Climate Change Accountability Act  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for the question. It is critically important. We totally agree on that. I was talking to my colleagues in the NDP who also worked on this. They made constructive comments on changes to make to the bill. I hope it will get to committee. We hav

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. I really liked that he mentioned the social movements, the women's movement and the labour movement. I especially appreciate his ability to tie in Camus, Sartre, Miron, no matter what he is talking about. What really stood out