Parkinson's Disease  Mr. Speaker, every day in Canada, 30 individuals are diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Parkinson Canada has identified key priorities for the Parkinson's community to consider to better improve overall health and quality of life for those living with this degenerative brain dis

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his thoughtful intervention. The affordable housing initiative that we are putting forward, with the removal of the GST on rentals, is part of our national housing strategy, which has a variety of different programs intended to reach dif

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, there were a couple of things I was listening for but did not hear, so maybe the hon. member can help clarify them for me. One is in terms of external competition. In August, Saudi Arabia cut a million barrels a day of oil out of production, which was about a 20% c

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, the review we have done, starting in 2022, has been a public consultation on the Competition Act. A couple of things we heard about are finding their way into this bill, but there is a lot more on the website to show the other things we have heard that we need to a

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, we have had similar discussions in Guelph, with round tables that have the service providers, the builders and the community agencies focused on housing solutions. In fact, similar to Calgary, we have identified supply as being one of the major issues, as well as a

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Madam Speaker, reducing the cost of a $500,000 unit by $25,000 would really give a developer the opportunity to move forward with plans it has to create more supply. Creating more supply in a marketplace such as ours would reduce the cost, because of supply and demand. We have a

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise in the House for the first time this session to discuss the very important bill that we have in front of us. This summer, I spoke to many constituents of mine in Guelph who had concerns about the price of housing, the price of groceries and

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the fifth report of the Standing Committee on Science and Research. This report is entitled “Revitalizing Research and Scientific Publication in French in Canada”. I give a special thanks to the member for Rim

Canada Disability Benefit Act  Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member from the Bloc for her thoughtful intervention tonight. I was particularly interested in her comments around working together with the provinces and territories to come to an agreement. With respect to the Canada child benefit, we were the g

Canada Disability Benefit Act  Madam Speaker, my constituents in Guelph have been talking about clawbacks as well. However, we accepted five of the six amendments from the Senate. In our government, two-thirds of amendments coming from the Senate are generally accepted. In the case of clawbacks, it is so impo

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, the second petition is from 37 constituents who are calling on the Minister of Environment and Climate Change for the Government of Canada to stop fossil fuel extraction expansion, accelerate the shift to a low-carbon economy and offer much more help to the poorest a

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I have two petitions to present this afternoon. The first petition is a petition to the House of Commons and Parliament assembled from 58 signatories in Guelph to support Bill S-243, an act that would enact the climate-aligned finance act, which was drafted based on

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, as the hon. member was speaking about nostalgia, I was thinking nostalgically of when I used to think the Conservative Party of Canada knew something about the economy and was a business champion. What I heard in the speech were things about tax increases. I was look

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member for Oshawa for this work on this bill and his intervention today. I am looking at the governance of our criminal justice system and the role that parliamentarians play versus the role that correctional institutions play and how important i

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the fourth report of the Standing Committee on Science and Research. This report is entitled “Pursuing a Canadian Moonshot Program”. I would like to thank the clerk, the analysts, the translators and the peop