International Nurses Day  Mr. Speaker, yesterday was International Nurses Day. As a doctor who has worked 35 years in a lot of hospitals, in a lot of different countries, I have worked with thousands of nurses over the year. I, like every doctor, and I hope this is acceptable to say in Parliament, have h

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I am not sure of the question with respect to the delay. Canada has done comparatively pretty well. Again, I point back to the fact that we are number three among the G7 countries in the rapidity with which we have gotten the vaccines out. The United Kingdom is a b

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I think the world globally has to re-examine how in the future we will respond to a pandemic. I would certainly agree with the member opposite that the free market may not be the optimal solution in terms of a global response.

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I cannot say that I know what all countries have done, but this has been the course of the United Kingdom and Quebec. To use an English expression, the proof is in the pudding. Does it work? We can look at the United Kingdom's numbers and they have dropped precipit

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, the number one issue for all Canadians is control over the COVID pandemic. A large part of this comes down to getting vaccines out as soon as we can. This is not the first time that vaccines have been involved in changing the world. A lot of people forget that polio

Marcel Nigro  Mr. Speaker, I would like to pay tribute to my friend, Marcel Nigro, who passed away a few weeks ago. Marcel used to work for the Children's Aid Society. He refused to go into administration, as he preferred to work with children on the street. Kids gravitated to him and trusted

Petitions  Madam Speaker, I have the honour to present a petition signed by 88 of my constituents. The petitioners are calling on the Government of Canada to use Magnitsky sanctions against Chinese officials who commit human rights abuses against Falun Gong practitioners.

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, having been mentioned by several previous speakers, I thought I had better actually say something here. Let me say, first of all, that I have not been silenced by the Liberal party, and nobody has told me not to speak about this issue. I have to thank the whip for

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, as a public health practitioner for 35 years, I know there is a lot of concern among health practitioners, front-line workers. I worked in an emergency room for a lot of years. What are we doing in terms of PPE? Globally, I think over 8,000 health care workers have

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, at the forefront of everybody's mind is the vaccine. I certainly have been advocating 100% that the answer to this problem is the vaccine. I know we have been heavily criticized for the fact that we do not have the capacity to make vaccines. However, as I sit on the

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, at the health committee, the minister talked about her personal relationships and personal conversations with CEOs and people in the vaccine companies whom she felt have assisted and will assist Canada in getting the vaccines sooner. This was really interesting and a

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, I will speak for five or 10 minutes, and then I will ask my colleague, the Minister of Health, a question. Patty, when you come back, you will certainly be welcomed by the people of Thunder Bay—

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, thank you for those words of wisdom. Let me start by saying that obviously the wrench that has been thrown into our financial predictions, both in terms of health care and for all ministries of the government, has been COVID-19. The opposition has been very vocal i

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, here we are today debating what the health committee does, and I certainly agree that we have had a co-operative relationship in the past. I hope that continues. However, the opposition members know that with this motion they are requesting a ton of documents, such

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I too am on the health committee, and I share with the member many of the frustrations we are dealing with at committee in trying to get back to studying this issue. There are two big issues I have with this motion. The first is the sheer volume of documents that ar