The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the minister keeps saying that the increased production of oil will not affect his plan, but his own department warned him that such is not the case. What is worse, the minister does not even include the extra barrels in his calculation. When he approved the Bay du

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, I was saying earlier that the government decided to proceed with a freeze that did not take effect immediately, but rather 30 working days after the announcement. This resulted in an explosion in handgun sales across the country. It appears that the government rea

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. I will continue along the same lines. A few days after Bill C‑21 was introduced, Le Devoir conducted a little investigation to see if the handgun freeze would actually be effective or a good idea. The journalists interviewed A

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, my colleague spoke about AR-15s and the mandatory buyback program for assault weapons. I did not have time to talk about this in my speech earlier, but I would like him to comment on how the government has decided to proceed. The government started by banning 1,50

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for the question. That is something we addressed by asking public safety agencies to invest more in tracing in order to determine, once they are seized, where these guns are coming from. However, once again, we need to give the police a way t

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her French, which I must say is excellent. I thank her for making the effort to ask this question. Indeed, this subject concerned me in committee. The opposition parties cannot invite as many witnesses as the government, but I still made a

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, I really appreciate my colleague's question. Those were recommendations from the report that members of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security agreed on. The government must invest more in community services to prevent youth from committing c

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, that is an excellent question, but it brings another question to my mind. How did these gun owners get them in the first place? Did they get them legally or illegally? That question needs to be asked. Of course, it does not help that there are so many guns alread

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, I can see that my colleague is very familiar with the file, and I thank her for that. Of course I talked about the negative first and left the positive to the end, but I did not have time to get to the positive. I must admit that Bill C-21 does actually contain som

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, I am very pleased to finally speak to Bill C-21. We had almost given up hope of hearing about a gun control bill before the end of the parliamentary session. The government finally introduced a bill last week, perhaps somewhat reactively. That is typical of the Li

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, I thank the minister for his speech. I am very pleased that we are finally starting this debate on Bill C‑21. I have a question about how to proceed and I would like to hear the minister's answer. At the press conference announcing Bill C‑21, it seemed pretty clea

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, my colleague and I work together on the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, notably on the gun control file. Every time I hear my Conservative colleagues ask questions about Bill C-5 in question period, I hear the Minister of Public Safety r

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, let us recap the Minister of Environment's actions this year. First of all, he approved an additional $2.6 billion in oil subsidies. That is his key budget measure on climate. Then, he approved the Bay du Nord oil project and its billion barrels of oil. Now he is cr

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, Quebec has had a carbon market with California since 2014. The Minister of the Environment actually went to California yesterday, but not to announce that he would be forcing polluting sectors to join the carbon market. No, he announced that the federal government w

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, it is actually a win-win for oil companies. This new scheme is not actually a carbon market. What it will do is let oil companies continue to pollute like there is no tomorrow while buying offset credits that will give the false impression they are reducing emission