Canadian Human Rights Act  Mr. Speaker, I firmly believe that the bill would help complete what we might call Canada's human rights project. Anytime we make our society more inclusive, we draw on the skills, talents and abilities of all our citizens and we advance the interests of our whole community and o

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, it looks like this tendency to make it up as one goes along is spreading along the front benches on the other side. Last week we learned the Conservatives are shutting down two prisons as well as the Ontario Regional Treatment Centre, but they have no plan for where

House debate  Mr. Speaker, I am happy to rise this evening in this adjournment debate to bring attention to a serious matter of discrimination against the transgendered community in Canada that was the result of a change in the regulations regarding air travel implemented in August 2011. I am

House debate  Mr. Speaker, I thank the parliamentary secretary for his remarks, but he is still doing the same thing: evading the main issue. We all believe in security in transportation and the necessity of checking the identities of passengers boarding planes. No one disputes that. However,

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, I know the Conservatives do not like using evidence in decision making but chopping Statistics Canada will not make the inconvenient facts go away. However, the government's reckless cuts are marching on. The Conservatives are now shutting down the joint emergency

Jobs, Growth and Long-Term Prosperity Act  Mr. Speaker, I was very interested in the remarks by the parliamentary secretary because she talked about the bill as if it were about most of the things she was talking about today. However, it is curious that a bill that spends one-third of its time on environment deregulation

Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies  Mr. Speaker, today marks the start of National Elizabeth Fry Week. This week Elizabeth Fry societies across the country will hold community events to enhance public awareness regarding the circumstances of marginalized, victimized, criminalized and institutionalized women and gir

Citizenship and Immigration  Mr. Speaker, that is news to those who waited for months, if not years, for similar answers. Never have the wheels of immigration justice turned so fast as for the Conservative friend and British criminal, Conrad Black. We no sooner learned of Black's application to return to Can

Citizenship and Immigration  Mr. Speaker, does the lavish praise for the Prime Minister explain how this convicted fraudster slipped into Canada so quickly?

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, we always support better mental health on this side, but we voted against the Conservatives' budgets because they did not get the job done. My question is for the Minister of Public Safety. Yesterday, the minister dashed off a threatening letter to Commissioner Pa

RCMP  Mr. Speaker, the RCMP is in the news again today for the wrong reasons: the ongoing failure to act on sexual harassment against female officers. The RCMP Public Complaints Commission is investigating. The RCMP commissioner is doing a gender audit of RCMP policies. However, for

National Security  Mr. Speaker, everyone knows the government's own information security was compromised last year by attacks from Chinese servers. Yet when the Prime Minister visited China, he was honoured to meet with Huawei, despite the Americans preventing Huawei from taking over any major tele

National Security  Mr. Speaker, we can selectively quote from the memo all we like, but the facts and the documents contradict the minister.

National Security  Mr. Speaker, the other part the minister did not cite says: The lessening of current restrictions could create new, and increase existing vulnerabilities in our telecommunications networks, further exposing them...to an increased threat of cyber espionage and denial of service

Fisheries and Oceans  Mr. Speaker, on the west coast, the government has announced the closure of the Kitsilano Coast Guard station located in the heart of Vancouver and one of the busiest stations in the country. This is the third station to close. However, it does not end there. The Conservatives ar