Infrastructure  Mr. Speaker, people of northern Manitoba rely on winter roads to get what they need. Usually the roads are open for over eight weeks. This year, due to a mild winter, they have been open for much less. Despite the Conservatives' denials, climate change is real, and the consequenc

Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, my colleague has expressed very well why his party and mine believe that this is a bad deal for Canada as well as Colombia. The NDP does not believe that the free trade agreement between Canada and Colombia will promote human rights and improve conditions in Colombi

Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, the member for Welland has done a lot of fine work in terms of the importance of the agricultural industry to Canada. Given that a lot of his work has been focused on the way in which the Conservative government has not stood up for the agricultural industry in Canad

Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act  Madam Speaker, we have heard a lot from the Bloc Québécois and the NDP about Colombians’ human rights and how this agreement would enable the paramilitaries and some Colombians who support their government to maintain the attitude they have adopted. One of the attacks on human

Income Tax Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to begin my deliberation on Bill C-288 by setting the stage. I was born in a town called Thompson, Manitoba, a town of 15,000 people. Like most of the people I went to school with who chose to pursue post-secondary education, I had to leave my home commu

Request for Emergency Debate  Mr. Speaker, I am rising today to request an emergency debate on the imminent cut of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation. This debate is urgent given that the Aboriginal Healing Foundation is scheduled to lose all of its funding in two days, on March 31. This means the closure of 1

Aboriginal Healing Foundation  moved: That this House do now adjourn. Mr. Speaker, before I begin, I would like to note that I will be splitting my time with the hon. member for Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing. I am honoured to stand here in this Parliament on behalf of the people of Northern Manitoba and

Aboriginal Healing Foundation  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the discussions we have had in the past and certainly the responses the minister has given me as we seek support for the Aboriginal Healing Foundation. However, I have to share the message that not only I believe but that thousands of Canadians have sha

Aboriginal Healing Foundation  Quite simply, it will be disastrous. One of the people I had the honour of working with said that if the community loses the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, in a few months there will be a resurgence of suicide among our young people. In fact, our youth will no longer have somewhe

Aboriginal Healing Foundation  Mr. Speaker, over the last few months, when many people wrote to the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, they received a response that, pending the evaluation, the fate of the AHF would be decided. This happened many times during the fall. What happened to that evaluation

Aboriginal Healing Foundation  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for her moving speech and her message about how important it is for all of us, and calling on the government to save the Aboriginal Healing Foundation. Given the member's speech and the words that we have heard from so many in this House, not

Aboriginal Healing Foundation  Mr. Speaker, the hon. member across has joined in with his colleagues who, one after the other, have expressed a plan as to what the government is going to do, and that we have heard for the first time. Not only that, but with speaker after speaker, that plan shifts, whether it

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to stand here today to present a petition on behalf of many constituents in northern Manitoba and from across Canada. The petitioners are pleading with the government to save the Aboriginal Healing Foundation. I was honoured yesterday to engage in on

Aboriginal Healing Foundation  Mr. Speaker, today, after the cutting of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, the government has left Canada's aboriginal peoples, residential schools survivors and their communities in the cold. During the emergency debate on the AHF, we heard that Health Canada had some kind of

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Madam Speaker, I would like to ask my colleague a question about the budget and this government's agenda. Does it concern him that this budget actually gives precedence to profitable Canadian industries like the oil industry or the banking industry, instead of giving precedence