Keeping Canada's Economy and Jobs Growing Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for his question and I would like others to speak on that aspect later. I would like to come back to his point that there are more than two million people who are unemployed or underemployed. In addition to that, a very large sector of our workfor

Copyright Modernization Act  Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the member for Shefford. I stand to speak to Bill C-11, the copyright modernization act, an act that would bring long overdue changes in Canadian copyright law and help us catch up with technological changes and with changes in intern

Copyright Modernization Act  Mr. Speaker, my colleague raises the very good point that I was alluding to at the end of my speech. It is the arts and culture industries that help us understand ourselves as a society. It is the arts and culture industries that help us look at the social problems that we face a

Copyright Modernization Act  Mr. Speaker, in second reading, we are talking about the principles of the bill. Therefore, what we are talking about here is the need to catch up with technology and ensure that one of the very positive things in the bill says that we will review it every five years to ensure we

Copyright Modernization Act  Mr. Speaker, one of the things I observed over the last few years with my students is that many of them could not afford to buy hard copies of textbooks. They are looking for new ways with lower costs to try to access educational materials. I taught in the area of Canadian crim

Human Rights  Mr. Speaker, the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group has called on member states to address human rights directly and make it a priority at their upcoming meetings in Perth. In 41 of 54 Commonwealth states being gay is still illegal, meaning people who are otherwise law-abiding

Bullying  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize October 20 as Spirit Day, a day started in 2010 by Canadian teenager Brittany McMillan to remember the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth lost to suicide. Many of us are wearing purple today in their memory and as a w

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act  Mr. Speaker, I know some members will wonder why someone from Vancouver would rise to speak on the Canadian Wheat Board. However, there is one wheat farmer in my constituency, in Metchosin. She is Sharon Rempel of the Vancouver Island heritage wheat project.

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act  It is outside the Wheat Board area, but I actually know someone who is growing wheat. Her concern is with regard to the decline of heritage wheat varieties that will take place in an open market. She is also concerned with the continuing decline of family farms. In 1931, about a

Importation of Intoxicating Liquors Act  Madam Speaker, I am very happy to rise to speak in favour of Bill C-311, An Act to amend the Importation of Intoxicating Liquors Act (interprovincial importation of wine for personal use), an act from 1928. As a bit of a digression, there was a time in 1928 when these kinds of p

Human Rights  Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the urgency of getting the Commonwealth to address lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. Remember, in 41 of 54 member states, being gay is still illegal. The Prime Minister of Britain and the Australian f

National Defence  Mr. Speaker, CFB Esquimalt's military forces continue to serve our country with honour, like the--

National Defence  Mr. Speaker, this includes the HMCS Ottawa, which recently returned from a four-month tour of duty in the Asia-Pacific region. At the same time, this base provides hundreds of millions of dollars of economic benefits in our community. It provides jobs for 4,000 military familie

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act  Mr. Speaker, it seems that the member was emphasizing that those who participate in supply management had a choice and have voted to participate in something that has restricted their marketing opportunities in some ways but expanded them in many others. If the Conservatives are

National Defence  Mr. Speaker, over the past week the Minister of National Defence has refused to say whether any bases will be closed as a result of Conservative cuts. He even claimed the whole story was made up by the opposition, despite the fact there is a directive from his department saying t