Prime Minister's Award for Excellence in Early Childhood Education  Mr. Speaker, we are coming to the end of Women's History Month. I would like to take the opportunity to highlight a woman in my riding of Hamilton Mountain who has dedicated her career to improving the lives of her tiny charges, their families and our entire community. Ala Moha

Youth Employment  Madam Speaker, it is an honour to rise for the first time in the House as the parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth. Our government does great work empowering our next generation of leaders through programs such as Canada summer jobs, yo

Online News Act  Madam Speaker, this government really believes in supporting journalists and sticking up for them in the face of intimidation tactics by tech giants.

Online News Act  Madam Speaker, I completely agree that journalists and small media outlets need support. At the same time, Bill C‑18 gives them the autonomy to negotiate directly with major tech companies. Some do not want money from the government. We must continue to talk about all the ways i

Online News Act  Madam Speaker, that is a very important question. I did meet with stakeholders who were indigenous journalists. They told us about how important it was for them to tell their stories in their own way from their own voice and to not have a definition of journalism imposed upon the

Online News Act  Madam Speaker, I agree that Canadians take their news in all forms. Like many people, I enjoy reading lots of news from online journalism sources. What people need to know is that the government is not getting involved in censoring the Internet. There is nothing like that at all

Online News Act  Madam Speaker, I am very happy to rise today to speak to Bill C-18, the online news act. As members have heard, I am a former broadcast and newspaper journalist, and I am also currently a member of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. Therefore, this bill really is import

Online News Act  Madam Speaker, I would like to answer the member opposite by saying that yes, I have worked in newsrooms. For more than 20 years I worked in newsrooms. I also sit on the heritage committee. I know that this legislation is possible because it is already working in a similar form

Online News Act  Madam Speaker, my colleague is also on the Canadian heritage committee. I really love that he highlighted how well this legislation worked in Australia to support smaller news outlets and how the big tech companies fought back with intimidation tactics. We are even seeing simila

Online News Act  Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague. I very much enjoy working with him on the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. I enjoyed his description of journalists and what they do for our society. I wanted to ask him what he thinks will happen if we do not adopt Bill

Diversity and Inclusion  Mr. Speaker, around the world we are seeing the rights of 2SLGBTQIA+ people being restricted. Even within our own borders, we are seeing extremist groups callously using innocent trans and non-binary children as political targets. The Minister of Labour recently represented Cana

Canadian Japanese Cultural Centre  Mr. Speaker, this Seniors Month, I would like to recognize the Canadian Japanese Cultural Centre in my riding of Hamilton Mountain. Founded after the Second World War, CJCC initially gathered its members in homes and churches before establishing their centre on Hamilton Mountain

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, Canadians expect the House to be a place of debate and for political parties to disagree on issues. What they do not expect is for party leaders to delay and avoid these debates with parliamentary tricks and obstructionist tactics. That is why Canadians were appalled

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, Canadians expect this House to be a place of debate and for political parties to disagree on issues. What they do not expect is for party leaders to delay and avoid these debates with parliamentary tricks and obstructionist tactics. That is why Canadians were appalle

Shalem Mental Health  Mr. Speaker, Shalem Mental Health is a Hamilton-based organization providing critical mental health services to children, youth, couples and families in more than 100 communities across Canada, including in my riding of Hamilton Mountain. We know that social inequities can affec