Citizenship Act  Mr. Speaker, I feel somewhat obligated at this point to put on the record my great degree of affection for the member who just rose on his intervention. While I indeed accept your ruling that it may have been frivolous, he is not. He is actually kind of okay. If the member opposi

Citizenship Act  Mr. Speaker, what I am saying is so important and material.

Citizenship Act  Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for your extraordinarily adequate intervention in the House. This quote is just so earth shattering, I want to put it on the record. The revocation notice is essentially how people are notified that their citizenship is going to be revoked for fraud. The

Citizenship Act  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his intervention. I also want to take this opportunity to thank him for his service as vice-chair of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration. I have greatly benefited from his long experience as chair of that committee in prev

Citizenship Act  Madam Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I rise tonight to debate the amendments to Bill C-6. I think a lot of Canadians in the last year have realized how important the issue of immigration is to the country, not so much as an if immigration is important conversation but h

Cannabis Act  Mr. Speaker, I absolutely agree with my colleague. The Liberals spend for spending's sake. It is like fun coupons. That was the point I was trying to make in the earlier part of my speech. The Liberals have not defined what they are managing in spending taxpayer dollars. It is al

Cannabis Act  Mr. Speaker, I was appointed as a minister of state. I was not appointed as a full minister and I understood that going into my position. The minister of state position has a certain level of salary attached to it and a full minister position has a certain level of salary attac

Cannabis Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member opposite for the chance to correct his odd mashup of Orwellian Newspeak and Internet buzzword generator. I heard “innovation”, “synergy”, “synergistic”, “work together” without any sort of metrics, and that is the point. I would like

Cannabis Act  Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I rise in debate tonight on Bill C-24, an act to amend the Salaries Act and to make a consequential amendment to the Financial Administration Act. I have a few problems with this bill. I want to speak to two aspects of it. I am going t

Paris Agreement  Madam Speaker, if the auto sector saw an economic downturn, the government would come forward with millions or billions of dollars of bailout money. If Bombardier saw an economic downturn, the government would come out with billions of dollars for a bailout. If a ketchup plant in

Extension of Sitting Hours  Madam Speaker, earlier this year, the Liberals put forward what was affectionately referred as a discussion paper, which was not a discussion paper. It was a manifesto. It was the second time they had done this. It was to fundamentally change the rules of Canadian democracy throu

Canadian Heritage  Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have wracked up massive deficits and hiked taxes, but the reality is that many Canadians are struggling. Meanwhile, they watch the Liberals spent their tax dollars on things like limo rides, Broadway tickets for wealthy bankers, cardboard cutouts of the

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, Canadian citizenship that was obtained by fraud or deceit is not a right because, according to Canada's laws, that person was never entitled to it in the first place. This principle is at odds with a Federal Court judge's ruling otherwise. If this ruling is implement

Foreign Affairs  Mr. Speaker, one of the Broadway tickets that the Prime Minister bought for wealthy bankers and diplomats was for the permanent mission of Venezuela to the UN. The permanent representative at this mission has been a man who was the longest serving cabinet minister under the despo

Human Rights  Mr. Speaker, compassion is a value Canada espouses, yet compassion requires courageous action. The ruthless authoritarian rule of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro has led to the dissolution of democratic institutions, imprisonment of political dissidents, economic collapse, and socie