Small Business  Madam Speaker, one of the big disappointments from last week's fall economic statement was the lack of action on extending the loan repayment deadline for the Canada emergency business account program. CEBA loans saved hundreds of thousands of businesses across Canada and milli

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, that was a very impassioned speech. I would just like to comment, first of all, that the punchline of that joke is, “This is the lighthouse and it is your call.” It ends right there. We are debating a motion about giving direction to the Senate. As my Bloc colleag

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, here we are, debating a Conservative motion to send a message to the Senate for delaying a bill, or blocking a bill. In 2019, a handful of Conservative senators blocked 15 or 20 private members' bills that had been passed by the House of Commons. It was all to make

National Strategy on Flood and Drought Forecasting Act  Mr. Speaker, today we are speaking to Bill C-317, a private member's bill from the member for Lac-Saint-Louis. This bill asks the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, in consultation with the provinces, indigenous governments and municipal governments, to develop a nationa

National Strategy on Flood and Drought Forecasting Act  Mr. Speaker, I know my colleague from Lac-Saint-Louis is a champion for all things water in the House and in this country. I would like to thank him for mentioning my old friend, Bob Sandford, who I worked with in the Rockies back in the early 1970s and has gone on to be a global

Environmental Bill of Rights  Mr. Speaker, the vast majority of Canadians believe they should have the right to live in a clean, healthy environment. The government believes that, too, as it voted in favour of a United Nations motion that enshrined that right around the world. However, we do not have that ri

Canada Labour Code  Mr. Speaker, this is such an important bill that will help workers across the country and help all communities across the country. As he mentioned, it has been an NDP issue for many years. I remember one of the first private member's bills I saw tabled in this House was from my f

Government Business No. 30—Proceedings on Bill C-56  Madam Speaker, the member got to the point towards the end, under your guidance. I would like to stay on the topic of the bill and talk about one of the main things this bill would do, which is that it would take the GST off of purpose-built rentals to promote the building of ne

Municipalities  Mr. Speaker, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities is in Ottawa this week to discuss the essential work its members do in over 2,000 communities. Sixteen of those communities are in my riding: Fruitvale, Montrose, Trail, Warfield, Rossland, Castlegar, Slocan, Silverton, New D

National Security Review of Investments Modernization Act  Mr. Speaker, I am glad my colleague from North Okanagan—Shuswap brought up the example of the long-term care homes that have been so problematic in our valley and in our province of British Columbia. The company Anbang, through Cedar Tree and others, perpetuated a situation of ve

National Security Review of Investments Modernization Act  Mr. Speaker, I am sure they were blueberries from British Columbia. They are bigger and better. I mentioned in my speech the fact of two very significant takeovers that happened during the Harper era. One was from, basically, the Chinese government, in our oil patch; the other w

National Security Review of Investments Modernization Act  Mr. Speaker, perhaps I should back down now and apologize for one part. I said they were bigger and better. They are certainly bigger in British Columbia. The taste may be up for debate. I would like to thank the member for the last part of his question. I know he is a real advo

National Security Review of Investments Modernization Act  Mr. Speaker, I do not believe the member was listening carefully enough, because I never said any of those things. What I said was that the Mulroney government did not—

National Security Review of Investments Modernization Act  Mr. Speaker, all the examples the member gave were from the Harper government, and I praised Harper in the speech. I do not do that very often. I just wanted to point that out. I was saying that Harper changed all that; actually, I could have mentioned PotashCorp and all those th

National Security Review of Investments Modernization Act  Mr. Speaker, I would totally agree. In my speech, I briefly mentioned the need to really develop and bolster our intellectual property programs and culture in Canada. That is outside this act, which controls investment and the takeovers of Canadian companies. We are studying thi