Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act  Mr. Speaker, I will leave checking the irony to the hon. member. I want to go back to the previous question from the member for Dauphin—Swan River—Marquette. He did mention his offence at the use of the term gun lobby. I said it clearly in my speech, and I have said it many time

Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act  Mr. Speaker, I am a little puzzled by the member's question because he knows good and well. We have said it repeatedly here. When we become the government after the next election we have no intention of bringing back the gun registry. The registry is dead. The data has been destr

Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act  Mr. Speaker, this is a government that likes to talk tough on crime and point to all its legislation of increased mandatory minimums and all the deterrents that are supposed to happen, even though we all know that there is absolutely no evidence that these tougher penalties have

Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act  Mr. Speaker, I think it applies most directly to the transportation of weapons. What we are talking about here is that when the police stop someone, under Bill C-42 that person would not have to have an authorization to transport the weapon in the car, but they could automaticall

Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak against Bill C-42, the government's so-called common sense firearms licensing act, at third reading. After introducing the bill in October and letting it languish on the order paper, in April the government suddenly found it urgent to press ahe

Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his speech, but it mystifies me why Conservatives continue to stand and say that the NDP will bring back the gun registry, when we very clearly said we will not. It is gone. The data is destroyed, and it is not coming back. He cited a quo

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, if we look at that page, we find that four years from now, the RCMP would still be below where it was in 2012. The reality is that the Conservatives are all talk when it comes to public safety. They are hoping Canadians will not notice that the programs and resource

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, Conservative cuts are forcing the RCMP to make impossible choices when it comes to protecting public safety. Faced with the skyrocketing resource demands of counterterrorism, the RCMP is dismantling Project Condor, its very successful program for finding offenders un

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, internal RCMP documents obtained under access to information show that the RCMP timed the release of the video made by the Ottawa shooter on October 22 so that it would not overshadow public hearings on Bill C-51. A Friday release was recommended because “...attent

The Environment  Mr Speaker, once again I rise to draw attention to the failings of the Conservatives when it comes to the west coast water protection. When I first began working on water issues in the late 1980s, as the executive director of the Pacific Peoples' Partnership, one of our concern

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives like to talk tough on crime, but the reality is that their cuts to rehabilitation programs are actually putting communities at risk. Volunteers who help with programs like Circles of Support and Accountability to ensure that offenders are safely rei

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, speaking of victims of crime, sexual assault is a devastating crime and one of the most difficult to prosecute. Survivors deserve to be treated with the utmost respect and dignity. However, the DNA collection kits provided by the RCMP are badly out of date. They oft

Canada Shipping Act, 2001  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise to speak in favour of Bill C-638, an act to amend the Canada Shipping Act. I want to express my thanks to the member for Nanaimo—Cowichan for her work on the problem of derelict vessels. This is a particular problem around Vancouver Island and in

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to table two petitions. The first is a petition on fair electoral representation, which has been signed by literally dozens of ordinary Canadians in my riding and the neighbouring riding of Victoria. It calls to abandon our winner take all first past

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, the second petition calls on the Government of Canada to bring in an action plan to protect the southern resident killer whales, in support of my Motion No. 460. This has been signed by dozens of ordinary Canadians who are drawing attention to the fact that more tha