Indian Act  Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Saskatoon—Grasswood. I will attempt to build on some of the comments that my colleague just made in his question and answer period. I think that anyone in this place would be hard pressed to argue that the Indian Ac

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, days before introducing tax rate changes that affected the value of many different stocks, did the finance minister sell 680,000 shares of Morneau Shepell on November 30, 2015?

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, days before introducing tax rate changes that affected the value of many different stocks, did the finance minister sell 680,000 Morneau Shepell shares on November 30, 2015?

Committees of the House  Madam Speaker, I am really glad that my colleague brought up the fact the recommendations in the report are pretty common sense and a good way forward. Maybe my colleague could comment on the fact that many of us have had members from groups like the Canadian Bar Association, an

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for her work on this study as well. She brought a lot of valid perspectives to the table. I am encouraged that she is advocating that this report be concurred in in the House. I want to give her an opportunity to perhaps expand a little

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, as the member is the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Immigration, he has a government appointment. I wonder if he can inform the House if the government will be supporting concurrence in this report and if he personally will be voting in favour of concurre

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, today I am asking the government to provide a timeline of implementation, as well as to concur in the report. People in the community see that the government has tabled its response to this report. A lot is going on with the immigration file, but the government has

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, my colleague has brought out this theme. I think if anybody stood in this place, it would be the same, that he or she has a full-time staff member just doing immigration case work. Maybe we could do things a little better. I want to re-emphasize a couple of points.

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I am glad my colleague mentioned the human cost because it is difficult to quantify. The report recommends looking at issues like how services are financed, the resourcing requirements. One of the recommendations looks at potentially resourcing newcomer service agen

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, that is a great Canadian question. When we think about other immigration debates happening in other parliaments around the world, the debate is “if” not “how”. The fact that we are talking about how and not if is a very positive Canadian issue. My colleague makes a

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I move that the 11th report of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, presented to the House on Friday, June 16, 2017, be concurred in. Earlier this year, something remarkable happened at the immigration committee. We tabled a unanimous report and f

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to application processing times for the various streams overseen by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada: how have the processing times for cases in all streams, including, but not limited to, spousal, partners and children applications, parents and grandparen

Citizenship and Immigration  Mr. Speaker, 200 million women alive today have undergone female genital mutilation. Today, the United Nations tweeted, as part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence that “FGM is a human rights violation. You must end cutting now for a better future for young g

Public Safety  Madam Speaker, yesterday the minister said that the number of ISIS fighters in Canada that he has been citing is “essentially accurate”. Well, being “essentially accurate” is not going to keep Canadians safe or bring justice to the victims of these criminals. I will ask the mini

Public Safety  Madam Speaker, here is the fact. It was our Conservative government that passed the laws that will allow these criminals to be punished. It is the $300 million that we directed to counterterrorism that is helping law enforcement officials do their jobs today. By contrast, the Lib