Committees of the House  Madam Speaker, I am happy to rise this evening to speak to a report produced by the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade, of which I am a proud member. This is a Conservative motion to concur in the sixth report of the committee on international trade, entit

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, the member, in the last question, talked about language training. I have some contact with that through my daughter, who once taught language lessons to immigrants. This was during the big increase in refugees from Syria. It seemed that, the more immigrants who cam

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, my colleague mentioned housing, because that is one of the core issues we are facing today with immigration. I know he knows of my riding in the South Okanagan, how beautiful and attractive it is and how people want to move there. People go there for tourism, but i

National Security Review of Investments Modernization Act  Madam Speaker, I am glad my colleague mentioned Anbang. Retirement Concepts is a company operating a retirement centre in my backyard, basically, in Summerland. It was in trouble before Anbang, a Chinese-owned insurance company, got involved; that was approved, as the member said

National Security Review of Investments Modernization Act  Madam Speaker, unfortunately, I missed the first part of the member's speech, so I hope he forgives me if he mentioned this. The member sits on the science and research committee with me, which is looking into situations like this, where intellectual property and industry is lea

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  Mr. Speaker, my colleague mentioned off the top that the Bloc was supporting the bill, and it seems to be a fait accompli, that everything was done behind closed doors and we are just implementing it. However, there is a section in the bill he was concerned about on investor-stat

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask more or less the same question that the Bloc member just asked about the investor-state dispute mechanisms. He said it was not like the investor-state dispute mechanism that the Americans wanted. I wonder if the member can explain more about that.

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  Mr. Speaker, I think we can all agree that we want to help Ukraine in every way possible and that modernizing the Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement is one way we can do that. I think this is a good step forward. What concerns me about the bill we are debating today is that the

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  Mr. Speaker, I will avoid a long debate about how clean liquid natural gas is and the whole idea of liquid natural gas actually being a good way to move forward with climate action, but I will say that there are liquid natural gas projects that are well on the way to completion i

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member for Kitchener Centre for taking part in a press conference I held with the member for Timmins—James Bay on that subject last week, where we called both the government and fossil fuel companies to account for the fact the International

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  Mr. Speaker, we heard the member for Winnipeg North say that we have had good negotiators and that, once they finish the negotiations, that will be it as we will not have any opportunity or reason to intercede. We have real reason to intercede beforehand, when we can talk and dis

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  Mr. Speaker, as I said in my speech, we were in favour of the previous agreement, and this agreement seems to be an improvement and an expansion on that. There are many details, the devil is always in the details in free trade agreements, and we will be taking a closer look at

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to rise today to speak to Bill C-57, the new Canada-Ukraine free trade agreement. This bill would update the agreement made in 2017. Much has happened in the past six years, as we all know. First, I would like to speak a bit about the original agreement,

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, 2023  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the minister's speech on this important free trade agreement. The NDP supported the previous agreement, and we are looking into what this new agreement looks like. One thing we do like about the old agreement is that it did not have the investor state

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, my colleague talked about the carbon tax, as Conservatives are wont to do. Of course, in British Columbia, the federal carbon tax does not apply at all. We have had a provincial carbon tax there since 2008, brought in by a small c conservative government. Over the p