Standing Orders and Procedure  Madam Speaker, I hope everyone can hear me this time. Congratulations to the member for a very thoughtful speech. She mentioned private members' bills. I have a comment and then a question. As I said earlier, if we had a parallel house or second House of Commons as they do in B

Standing Orders and Procedure  Mr. Speaker, I think that is a great idea for PROC to look at, and then PROC could make recommendations

Standing Orders and Procedure  Mr. Speaker, I will not comment on the other place; they make their own rules. However, the first point is a very good one, and I think it supports my point about looking at a second chamber of the House of Commons, because in a second chamber we could have more private members'

Standing Orders and Procedure  Mr. Speaker, I think that if there were a way for people to have more time to deal with some of those very important motions, it would be helpful. On electronic voting, I forgot to mention that three parties already, and I think probably four when they get to speak, will be sup

Standing Orders and Procedure  Mr. Speaker, we would not be decreasing the time that Parliament sits, but just be giving more time to more important input on important issues, as opposed to spending one, two or three hours just having people stand up and sit down when their votes are already recorded.

Standing Orders and Procedure  Mr. Speaker, as other members have said, I will be giving my own personal opinions. I have not talked to any member from any party about my ideas. As a former chair of PROC, I think the results of this debate may depend on how PROC deals with it. PROC is a very busy committee. I

Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act  Madam Speaker, the member said we have no plan. I would like to ask the member this. If he and his party are going to try to make the case during this debate that we have no plan, why have they spent so much energy, effort and passion contradicting, voting against and denying the

Citizenship Act  Mr. Speaker, I have a quick comment from the traditional territory of the Ta’an Kwach’an Council and the Kwanlin Dun, which both have signed modern treaties and self-government agreements. I want people watching to think about how they would feel if they bought a house and when

Broadcasting Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to ask the member about indigenous broadcasting, but first I want to thank him for his trip down memory lane. It was very fun. I want to correct a couple inaccuracies about broadband and the great work that the broadband minister has been doing in connecting,

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. This might be an appropriate time, given the presentation of one of the earlier petitions, to remind members that when they present a petition they should not express their view or give a personal speech related to the petition, just what

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I would like the minister to comment on a larger philosophical issue that also applies in this situation, which is to have engagement or not to have engagement. History has shown us that one could have no engagement for a thousand years with a regime or a nation that

Judges Act  Madam Speaker, the member always has very erudite speeches. Like the member, I am very passionate in my support of this bill. I will probably not ask a question, but let him carry on because I know he always has a lot of very important input. However, I want to make a couple of c

Bills of Exchange Act  Madam Speaker, I am not going to ask a question. I will just let the member carry on because he has so much to offer. I want to say he is one of the most amazing members of Parliament I have ever met and he has done so much for human rights. He is totally right that we did not he

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, I ask people watching what they would do if someone asked them to change their sexual orientation or gender identity, or, even worse, tried to force them to do it as a kid. They should think about how they would feel. I am moved and gratified that we are criminalizi

Global Polio Eradication Initiative  Mr. Speaker, tomorrow is World Polio Day, a day to celebrate the world's progress against polio and our resolve to end this horrible disease once and for all. Recently, Africa was certified as free of the wild polio virus, which is a big milestone, but COVID-19 has caused 50 mill