Innovation, Science and Industry  Mr. Speaker, today an open letter to the Prime Minister, signed by nearly 300 top scientists and scientific organizations, highlighted that Canada's best and brightest graduate, post-graduate and post-doctoral students are living in poverty due to the inadequate funding they rece

Online Streaming Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my hon. colleague for following up on the idea of supporting Canadian content. I am glad he mentioned The Beachcombers. I was disappointed when his colleague from Kingston and the Islands mentioned MC Hammer, because if one googles “MC Hammer C

Online Streaming Act  Mr. Speaker, the member tried to take us back to 1991. I seem to remember getting my first email address sometime around then. The Liberal government has been in power since 2015, so let us go back to there. Since then, Facebook, YouTube and Netflix still have not paid their fai

Online Streaming Act  Madam Speaker, the member for Regina—Lewvan talked a lot about how much money is going to Facebook for advertising, and the previous Conservative speaker mentioned Bill C-18, which is where the rubber hits the road on the point of how we get value out of Facebook and other web gi

Meadowlark Nature Festival  Mr. Speaker, the Meadowlark festival, a celebration of the unique and rich natural heritage of the South Okanagan and Similkameen valleys, is happening once again this year on the May long weekend. We started the Meadowlark festival in 1998 to give residents an opportunity to c

Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No. 1  Madam Speaker, I would like to thank the member for that important question. Certainly in my riding, short-term rentals such as Airbnb are a huge part of the housing problem, because everybody wants to come to my riding for a holiday. I would comment that most of the laws regardi

Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No. 1  Madam Speaker, I would agree with the member for Winnipeg North. Most Canadians and constituents I talk to want politicians to collaborate and act collegially to create the best for Canadians and to make sure we are working here to make lives better for Canadians. That is what

Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No. 1  Madam Speaker, I am not so much concerned about carbon capture and storage because the private sector is involved. What I am concerned about is that the oil and gas sector is involved and is using that carbon capture and storage technique to basically pump more oil and gas out of

Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No. 1  Madam Speaker, I am happy to rise here to speak to Bill C-19, the budget implementation act. This pandemic has been incredibly difficult for many Canadians, and now we have a housing crisis, rising inflation and a labour shortage, which are all adding to these difficulties. Our

An Act respecting the French language  Madam Speaker, I would like to thank the hon. member for Salaberry—Suroît for her speech, and for having introduced Bill C-238. Does she have any suggestions about how to improve access to French courses for new Quebeckers who would like to learn or improve their French?

Small Business  Madam Speaker, Canadian businesses pay huge rates on their credit card transactions, almost twice as much as fees in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. In budget 2022, the government admitted that Canada's high credit card fees have been hurting small businesses, which were alrea

Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No. 1  Madam Speaker, I would like to thank the member for Milton for his performance in the soccer game last night against the interns. He kept us in the game, as did the Minister of Justice in goal. I want to give the member an opportunity to talk more about co-op housing. It is some

Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No. 1  Madam Speaker, the member talked about housing affordability. She said it was a huge problem and I agree with her. I think everyone would agree with her. However, I listened carefully and she offered absolutely no solutions. She just said we should talk about this. I am wonderin

Economic and Fiscal Update Implementation Act, 2021  Madam Speaker, the member for Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies obviously cares a lot about the farmers in his riding. He also, I know, has a lot of small businesses in his riding and a lot of tourism operators, yet the government has abandoned small businesses and tour

Economic and Fiscal Update Implementation Act, 2021  Madam Speaker, Bill C-8 and Bill C-2 before it were meant to provide help for businesses struggling to get through the pandemic. They were both drawn up before the omicron variant hit and extended the pandemic by months and months. We have had calls from the Canadian Federation