Department of Public Works and Government Services Act  Madam Speaker, I mentioned some of the benefits. The main benefit for the forest sector would be increasing the domestic demand for wood products. Mass timber does exactly that. Mills all across the country are making two-by-fours and two-by-sixes. Mass timber plants use those pi

Department of Public Works and Government Services Act  Madam Speaker, I have met with PSPC. There might have been concerns if this had been presented to it and it was completely unprepared. It is not. It has been preparing for this for the last few years. It has processes in place, like life-cycle analyses that are under way now with

Department of Public Works and Government Services Act  Madam Speaker, my hon. colleague is correct. We need to move forward. She mentioned education. A lot of what the bill will promote will need the education of architects, engineers and construction workers across Canada to change their mindset about the construction of large buil

Department of Public Works and Government Services Act  moved that Bill S-222, An Act to amend the Department of Public Works and Government Services Act (use of wood), be read the second time and referred to a committee. Mr. Speaker, I am happy and proud to rise in the House this morning to begin debate on a bill from the other pla

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, off the top, I would like to send out congratulations to Kimo Linders of Penticton for winning the small business of the year award from the Tourism Industry Association of Canada last night, as well as to the amazing Penticton Vees, who just won their 21st game in a

Post-Secondary Education  Madam Speaker, Canada's graduate students and post-doctoral fellows are living in poverty because the government has not increased their wages in almost 20 years. This week, scientists were completely unimpressed when the minister tried to tell them that ongoing funding was new m

Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022  Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola for those comments, and I agree with him right up to the very end of them. I do not know if the member knows how supply agreements work, but we do not get everything we ask for from the government when we

Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022  Madam Speaker, as for the dental care provisions that received royal assent yesterday, this is a temporary interim measure. Since the government did not act quickly enough, we could not bring in the real dental care program that we would have liked to see. People in Quebec can ap

Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022  Madam Speaker, if the member had listened to my speech, he would have heard that I mentioned both of those items. They are things that we support as the NDP, because they were literally our ideas, especially the dental care proposal that the Liberals voted against a year ago. How

Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022  Madam Speaker, one of the things that has really hit Canadians across this country is the high price of gas. It has gone up almost a dollar in my part of the country. The Conservatives seem obsessed with stopping the increase in the carbon tax that comes into effect in April, wh

Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022  Other countries are doing it.

Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022  Madam Speaker, it is an honour, as always, to rise in this place, and especially so when it comes to important decisions around helping Canadians get through these times of inflationary pressure, with a housing crisis and a health care system in chaos. Today we are debating the i

Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022  Madam Speaker, I was surprised the member did not mention wine, which is one of the industries both his riding and mine share. We do not make as much as the Niagara region, but we make better wine, of course. I wanted to perhaps give him some time to expand on what we were hopin

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I will try to be brief, but there is so much I want to get into. First is the idea that if we cut gas taxes at the pumps, it will help people. The member's own provincial government in Alberta tried this, and for a week the price went down relative to what it is i

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I used to sit on the Forest Appeals Commission in British Columbia. At appeal hearings, we would hear forest companies blame their contractors for some misdemeanour and the contractors would blame their subcontractors, and the subcontractors would blame their sub-s