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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Madam Chair, talk is cheap. We need action. For seven years, the government has talked, and it has spent but I am not sure on what. How many first nations persons across this country still do not have access to basic, clean drinking water? How many first nations persons have no h
December 7th, 2022House debate
Michelle RempelConservative
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Madam Chair, absolutely. We need to stop white supremacy, we need to stop racism and we need to stop misogyny. Yes, of course. How we do that, though, is by not glossing over it when it happens and not turning a blind eye to it when it happens within our own tents. I see a Prim
December 7th, 2022House debate
Michelle RempelConservative
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Madam Chair, there is a report that is about three inches thick that was developed by the missing and murdered indigenous women inquiry and it has numerous calls for justice, including specific reforms around establishing trust with the police. Those are the words of first nation
December 7th, 2022House debate
Michelle RempelConservative
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Madam Chair, of course we should be providing closure for these families. I understand that there will be questions about logistics and this and that, but we have to understand how difficult it is for first nations and indigenous women in this country. Sometimes I think we priori
December 7th, 2022House debate
Michelle RempelConservative
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Mr. Speaker, as I start debate tonight, as other colleagues have done, I want to provide a bit of a warning at the top end of my speech, because what we are discussing here tonight is graphic and should not make anyone comfortable. It should make every person in this country deep
December 7th, 2022House debate
Michelle RempelConservative
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Mr. Speaker, there are indeed many accomplishments of which first nations and indigenous women in this country can be proud, but that is not for the government to own. In fact, many times it is in spite of the government that these women succeed. Tonight we are here to talk abou
December 7th, 2022House debate
Michelle RempelConservative
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Mr. Speaker, the government has said a lot of words over the last seven years, and the government has spent, or claims to have spent, a lot of money, yet here we are. I appreciate the minister's willingness to be non-partisan, but at the end of the day, he is the one who writes t
December 7th, 2022House debate
Michelle RempelConservative
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Mr. Speaker, previous speakers have talked about the lack of efficacy in spending on this issue and have alluded to how the government uses spending as an outcome, when we are in here, once again, six months later, having a debate about a tragedy that we should have prevented. I
December 7th, 2022House debate
Michelle RempelConservative
Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022 Mr. Speaker, the point I am trying to make is that every Canadian, regardless of age, gender, orientation or background, deserves stability, security and hope for the future. There is nothing in this budget, which the NDP is propping up in a supply development, that addresses lon
December 5th, 2022House debate
Michelle RempelConservative
Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022 Mr. Speaker, I am pro-outcome for Canadians, and I am against spending that does not deliver those outcomes. For the last several years, we have been in this explicit debt crisis because the Liberal government has never had anyone say to it that it cannot say it spent this amount
December 5th, 2022House debate
Michelle RempelConservative
Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022 Mr. Speaker, the current form of government is like presenting an eight-track tape player to somebody who wants to play an MP4. When we are looking at resiliency for employment on issues like AI, we have to say that it is already here and ask, “How do we become resilient for empl
December 5th, 2022House debate
Michelle RempelConservative
Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022 Mr. Speaker, in Greek mythology there was a woman called Cassandra, and Cassandra was doomed to know the future and have no one believe her. In fact, I think she met a fairly poor end during the fall of Troy. I am always worried about having Cassandra moments in here, and I hope
December 5th, 2022House debate
Michelle RempelConservative
Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022 Mr. Speaker, when the government unveiled its housing strategy in 2017, there was $78.5 billion dedicated toward it. The goal was for homelessness to be reduced by half by 2027-28 and by a third within 18 months, so we are long past that. Recently the Auditor General discovered
December 5th, 2022House debate
Michelle RempelConservative
Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022 Mr. Speaker, my colleague opposite just talked about government spending. The Auditor General and the PBO have talked about a lot of areas where the government has been ineffective in spending. In fact, I believe there is an article that says: Ottawa spends billions yet the num
December 5th, 2022House debate
Michelle RempelConservative
Encouraging the Growth of the Cryptoasset Sector Act Madam Speaker, I do have a degree in economics. I want to talk about why this bill is so important and ask the member to reconsider. When Bernie Madoff ran his Ponzi scheme, we did not seek to ban email or ban phones because he used those to lure victims, and we did not try to v
November 21st, 2022House debate
Michelle RempelConservative