Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act  Madam Speaker, I share a lot of time together with my colleague at the environment committee. It is nice to see her. Industry is already onside. It is not this adversarial relationship, which I think a lot of people across the country envision it to be. The energy sector is not

Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act  Madam Speaker, I would advise him and the New Democratic Party to look at the costs already. I quoted the unemployment numbers in my city. It is at 12%. Twelve per cent of the people we run into in my city are unemployed. This is a heavy energy sector. A lot of people who live he

Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act  Madam Speaker, through you to the parliamentary secretary, forgive me for consulting with my constituents on certain questions that are before the House. Obviously my personal view is that we can certainly get to net zero, but it is working with the opposition. It is not going

Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act  Madam Speaker, it is a pleasure to join members from beautiful Edmonton Riverbend, albeit it is a little snowy here today. I am pleased to participate in the debate to speak to Bill C-12. I want to start specifically by addressing how bills like this impact my home province of

Canada Labour Code  Mr. Speaker, the member has essentially zeroed in on what we would love to do with the bill. We obviously want to impact EI. However, as the member knows well, a private member's bill cannot impact money from the government, so we cannot make changes to the bill to have EI follow

Canada Labour Code  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for the comment. I appreciate it.

Canada Labour Code  Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary has certainly addressed the key aspect of this bill. I spoke about my grandma. It is one of millions of stories in this country that we have heard over and over again. I will highlighting what we have seen in this pandemic. In a number of

Canada Labour Code  Mr. Speaker, the member for Mount Royal, and those in the minister's office, have been extremely helpful in terms of getting this bill right, and I thank him. I think all members of the House can agree that compassionate care leave is an important program here in Canada. It is

Canada Labour Code  moved that Bill C-220, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (compassionate care leave), be read the second time and referred to a committee. Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to rise here today to discuss my private member's bill, Bill C-220, an act to amend the Canada Labour Code (

Health  Mr. Speaker, Jakob Guziak is a one-year-old in my riding who suffers from severe combined immune deficiency, and he has been given six months to a year to live. His family has been working tirelessly to get him access to gene therapy treatments, which are currently unavailable he

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, I hope to ask a legitimate question that brings it back to the people. The Liberals have stood time and time again today to give speeches, indicating that we have waited far too long for the legislation. The Liberals have been in government for five years now and ma

Joey Moss  Mr. Speaker, I rise in the House today to remember Joey Moss, an Edmonton legend who sadly passed away yesterday. Joey was a fixture in the dressing rooms of the Edmonton Oilers and the Edmonton football team. He sang O Canada proudly from the stands of the game, inspiring others

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, the member and I worked together at the mental health caucus for two Parliaments and have done a lot of good work there. He just spent the last 10 minutes explaining how important this piece of legislation is, but in the last four years the government has failed to a

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, the government continues to put policies that hurt Albertans front and centre. Not even 24 hours after Alberta announced its plan to diversify the economy by becoming a recycling hub, the Liberals announced that plastics will be labelled as a toxic substance. This ne

National Unity  Our country is at a crossroads, Mr. Speaker. We are going through a significant economic crisis, a health crisis due to the pandemic, but also a crisis of national unity. Something is not right when millions of Canadians feel they are not fairly represented in this place. Is th