Telecommunications  Mr. Speaker, my colleague speaks to a frustration that far too many Canadians are experiencing, particularly during COVID. We have heard them. In our first mandate we invested to connect 1.7 million households to this essential service. In this mandate that works continues with a

Telecommunications  Mr. Speaker, we are moving forward with great urgency and great focus to connect every Canadian to high-speed Internet. In our first mandate, we supported our partners to connect 1.7 million households across the country. In this mandate, the universal broadband fund is already

Telecommunications  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his important advocacy, both with spectrum auctions and subsidies for communities where the business case to connect households to high-speed Internet is simply not there. Our government is there. Spectrum auctions include a carve-out for sm

Telecommunications  Mr. Speaker, let me thank my hon. colleague for Miramichi—Grand Lake for working so hard to get his community connected to high-speed Internet. It is because of his hard work, and the hard work of members like him, that by the end of this month, 2,973 households in New Brunswick

Women and Gender Equality  [Minister spoke in Ojibwe, Anishinabe and Arabic as follows:] Boozhoo, aaniin, as-salaam alaikum. [Translation] Madam Speaker, it is a great privilege for me to stand here on traditional Algonquin land. Fifty years ago on this day, a report was tabled in this House. I will b

Women and Gender Equality  Madam Speaker, 50 years ago today, there would not have been enough women in the House to ask the question and then answer the question. Here we are, 50 years later, and there are 100 of us in the House. Our job is to honour and thank those whose shoulders we stand on, to protec

Women and Gender Equality  Madam Speaker, the short answer is yes. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Angela MacDougall and the Feminists Deliver coalition in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. We have been working with them since before Feminists Deliver, and we recognize that COVID has only

Infrastructure  Mr. Speaker, my colleague knows very well that when the province puts forward applications, our government takes six weeks to process them. He brought an interesting term to the House of Commons and I want to correct the record. “Intersectionality” is not used the way my colleag

Criminal Code  moved that Bill C-7, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying), be read the third time and passed.

Women and Gender Equality  Mr. Speaker, this morning in the House, the Prime Minister and the leader of every party stood up and unanimously agreed that misogyny, sexism and the need for supporting feminism has to be at the centre of this country's response to addressing and preventing gender-based violenc

Women and Gender Equality  Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Nickel Belt is absolutely right: Men and boys play a vital role in ending gender-based violence. That is why our government partnered with the Moose Hide Campaign, Next Gen Men, Catalyst Canada and Pauktuutit, to name a few, so that men and boys are

Telecommunications  Mr. Speaker, I have positive news for my colleague. As of November 9, there has been a call for applications. It is open. This is the single largest investment in broadband in Canada's history. Our government has put it forward. We are taking a matter of days to review and assess

Telecommunications  Mr. Speaker, I have good news for my other Conservative colleague as well. Those maps he referred to have been updated. They have been updated as of January. We continue to update them. The hexagon model is gone. I encourage him to reach out to my team and me if he has any ques

Telecommunications  Mr. Speaker, because of our government's investments, tens of thousands of households over the next month will be connected to this essential service, because of the universal broadband fund and everybody who worked so hard to develop the program. Canadians like those in my hon.

Telecommunications  Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague is absolutely right. Too many Canadians at the moment do not have access to this essential lifeline. I would encourage him to reach out to my team and I. We will work with him to see if the rapid response stream, the $150 million we set aside for i