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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

Canadian Human Rights Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for her commitment and her previous very strong public support for the bill, based on her personal experience in law enforcement in Winnipeg and other experiences. I do thank her for that support. This is debate at second reading, and we are

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

Canadian Human Rights Act  Mr. Speaker, I would say two things. One is that the bill was already adopted previously by the House of Commons and it does not appear to have been an obstacle in the previous Parliament, although neither the parliamentary secretary nor I were there at the time, so I do accept t

Canadian Human Rights Act  moved that Bill C-279, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity and gender expression), be read the second time and referred to a committee. Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to lead off the debate at second reading of Bill C-279, An Act to

National Defence  Mr. Speaker, New Democrats have always supported the men and women who run the bases across this country. However, bases across the country, including CFB Esquimalt in my riding, are now the targets of mean-spirited Conservative cuts. These Conservatives have dished out billions

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, I listened with interest to the hon. member's comments on the government's budget and note that most of the sources he cited were from the 19th century and his very ideological approach to economic problems. Even though I do not share that ideology, it makes me wonde