Navigation Protection Act  moved for leave to introduce Bill C-698, An Act to amend the Navigation Protection Act (Tod Creek). Mr. Speaker, today I rise to introduce a private member's bill to restore federal environmental protection for the Tod Creek watershed. This protection was removed from all rivers

Justice  Mr. Speaker, what we have here is another example of the utter contempt for Canadians that the government has, and its total cynicism. The government House leader has actually admitted that it is now tabling bills solely for Conservative partisan purposes, and it is actually usi

Privacy Protection  Mr. Speaker, the minister can crank up the fear machine, but what we are talking about here is gathering biometric data on 2.9 million people within just a few years and making it harder for tourists, family members, and business people to visit Canada. Can the minister tell us

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, the crisis of sexual harassment in the RCMP has shocked Canadians. It is abhorrent that hundreds of women, maybe more, were subjected to discrimination, harassment, bullying, and even assault, all while trying to protect other Canadians. These women deserve justice,

National Defence  Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Minister of National Defence said that our request for an apology to LGBT members of the Canadian Forces who were forced out of their jobs was new to him. That is surprising because this motion was tabled more than a year ago. Just to ensure he did no

Respecting Families of Murdered and Brutalized Persons Act  Mr. Speaker, given that this is probably one of the last debates we are going to be having on criminal justice matters, I am going to take a somewhat broader approach to this bill. In this 41st Parliament, in this whole series of public safety bills that have been brought forward

National Defence  Mr. Speaker, veterans and their families deserve fair treatment now, just like LGBT members in the Canadian Forces deserved better than the discriminatory treatment they faced in the past; treatment that saw hundreds hunted down and driven out of the Canadian Forces. Will the M

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, the recommendations on what needs to be done have been around since Mayerthorpe, more than a decade ago. There is no excuse for inaction, just as with the issue of sexual harassment in the RCMP. The situation has become so bad that nearly 400 female RCMP officers a

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, the government has a real problem delivering for communities. Unfortunately, this includes front-line RCMP officers. The horrific incident in New Brunswick last year, which took the lives of three officers, underlined how dangerously unprepared the RCMP had left man

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North raises exactly the point. Consumers, especially in the lower-income groups, have very good uses for that money, much better uses than increasing bank profits. However, there is one thing we tend to miss when we talk about this transitio

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, what we have in front of us today is pay-to-pay fees. However, as I said a bit earlier, we also have transaction fees, mortgage discharge fees, all kinds of fees. The point of the motion is that there needs to be a mandatory financial code of conduct to protect consu

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to rise today to speak on the opposition motion. I will be sharing my time with the member for Newton—North Delta. I think the motion before the House is very important for most ordinary Canadians. It calls on the government to ban all pay-to-pay p

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, let us be clear. The same government that is forcing successful law enforcement programs like Project Condor to shut down, and the same government that is taking resources away from financial and organized crime investigations, is refusing to protect Canadians' perso

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, it turns out the Conservatives have also been hiding the facts when it comes to security issues. The minister has repeatedly insisted that the Security Intelligence Review Committee has a mandate to fully oversee CSIS, but it turns out this is not the case. Yesterd

Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act  Mr. Speaker, the hon. member for Dauphin—Swan River—Marquette will have to pardon me if I actually laugh at his question. It is absurd. What we have said, and he quoted our leader saying something that I have just said, is that we think we should be able to track guns. What does