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Canada Labour Code  Mr. Speaker, I was unaware of the fact that it was the dean of the House, a sitting member of the Bloc Québécois, who first introduced this legislation decades ago, but I am not surprised. Once again we are seeing how Quebec has shown leadership with respect to issues like this.

November 24th, 2023House debate

Mark GerretsenLiberal

Canada Labour Code  Mr. Speaker, in my speech I said that our proposal may have been slightly different from that of the NDP. The result is better and I will be the first to say that. Yes, we ran on something slightly different, but the NDP said this was a better way to do it and we came to an agree

November 24th, 2023House debate

Mark GerretsenLiberal

Canada Labour Code  Mr. Speaker, I come from a riding that has a lot of public sector employees and a lot of people who are impacted directly or indirectly by the public sector. There were so many public sector employees back in 2014-15 in my riding who took extreme issue with what the Conservatives

November 24th, 2023House debate

Mark GerretsenLiberal

Canada Labour Code  Mr. Speaker, is it because it was on page 22 of our election platform? The member brought up Ukraine. I am so glad that she did. She took the bait very well. The member wants to talk about Ukraine. The reality is that she is trying to somehow justify Conservative support for Ukr

November 24th, 2023House debate

Mark GerretsenLiberal

Canada Labour Code  They are heckling me now. Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives will not even say that they will support it just to get it to committee where they want to do this work. We heard the member for Edmonton Manning say that just moments ago. They want to have a thorough discussion and thoro

November 24th, 2023House debate

Mark GerretsenLiberal

Canada Labour Code  I do not know why they would clap for that. Mr. Speaker, their record is not anywhere near reflective of that. The reality is that the vast majority of Canadians know that Conservatives do not support workers. They support big corporations and that has always been their MO. They

November 24th, 2023House debate

Mark GerretsenLiberal

Canada Labour Code  Mr. Speaker, it is an honour today to rise to speak to Bill C-58, a very important piece of legislation. It was a commitment made by both the Liberals and the NDP in the last election, something we have been able to work together on in order to bring forward legislation to the Ho

November 24th, 2023House debate

Mark GerretsenLiberal

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I have two petitions to present today. The first is the 17th petition I have presented on this particular topic. It is signed by Canadians across the country who are calling to the government's attention the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's most recent re

November 24th, 2023House debate

Mark GerretsenLiberal

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I am starting to receive several petitions, from various different school communities in the Kingston area, bringing to the government's attention the incredible need now more than ever for healthy food programs within schools. The petitioners bring to the governme

November 24th, 2023House debate

Mark GerretsenLiberal

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act  Mr. Speaker, I know this issue has come up, if not from this member, then from one of her colleagues. It is the issue of extreme anti-competition that we are seeing, in particular with regard to the grocery retail giants. I know that in Canada, Loblaws, which owns Shoppers, occup

November 23rd, 2023House debate

Mark GerretsenLiberal

Government Business No. 30—Proceedings on Bill C-56  Mr. Speaker, I request a recorded division.

November 23rd, 2023House debate

Mark GerretsenLiberal

Government Business No. 30—Proceedings on Bill C-56  Madam Speaker, I appreciate the member's comment about talking about whatever we want. Maybe he should talk to the member for Cypress Hills—Grasslands about that, as he is the one who called me out on it. This does not matter because nowhere in this deal does it commit Ukraine t

November 23rd, 2023House debate

Mark GerretsenLiberal

Government Business No. 30—Proceedings on Bill C-56  Madam Speaker, I appreciate the question, but it has a false pretext, which is to assume that nothing else has ever been done, which is not the case. We have had, for a number of years now, the national housing strategy. I am aware of several projects in my own riding that have

November 23rd, 2023House debate

Mark GerretsenLiberal

Government Business No. 30—Proceedings on Bill C-56  Madam Speaker, I cannot guarantee anything. I do not think anybody can guarantee anything realistically. What I can say is that we look at where the problem is. We know the problem is in food inflation. We know that food prices have inflated much faster than the average. We kno

November 23rd, 2023House debate

Mark GerretsenLiberal

Government Business No. 30—Proceedings on Bill C-56  Madam Speaker, it is the government's job to incentivize various parts of the marketplace from time to time when it sees the need for the betterment for society. Sometimes we do that with respect to encouraging the growth of a particular manufacturing sector, such as we have seen

November 23rd, 2023House debate

Mark GerretsenLiberal