Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, during the last election, the Liberals vowed to introduce a just transition act to give workers the training and support needed to succeed in the clean economy. Organizations such as the International Institute for Sustainable Development and Unifor are calling on th

The Environment  Madam Speaker, this week, the International Institute for Sustainable Development recommended that indigenous governments, leaders and communities play an active role in navigating and benefiting from Canada's journey to net zero as equal partners. New Zealand created the Office

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, I am happy to to hear that the Bloc is supporting this. I am happy to hear they want to see this move through the House expeditiously. The member for Abitibi—Témiscamingue raised the issue of it going to the Senate. I am just wondering if he has any concerns with t

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, I totally agree with much of the speech from the member for Mégantic—L'Érable. However, it seems that the Conservatives here are trying to say that they are against this practice but they are falling back on a concern about whether conversations about conversion

Retirement Congratulations  Mr. Speaker, before I became an MP, I was a biologist. One of the most exciting and fulfilling parts of that career was my time on the board of the Nature Conservancy of Canada. The person leading that organization was John Lounds. When John joined the NCC as CEO in 1997, it ha

Offshore Health and Safety Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for his speech. It is so fortunate that we have someone with such a depth of knowledge on this issue. He has been involved with it for the last 30 years, ever since the offshore sector started in Newfoundland. He has been working wi

Offshore Health and Safety Act  Mr. Speaker, the people at the centre of this, and the people who have been really affected by this, are the offshore workers. They are represented by unions, most of them by Unifor, yet they have not been consulted properly on this. They should be allowed to choose their own rep

Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1  Madam Speaker, this week we had the International Energy Agency coming out and saying that we do not need any new oil developments. We have had the Canada Energy Regulator saying that we do not need Keystone XL and that we do not need the Trans Mountain pipeline. Could the hon. m

Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member for the Yukon for those comments. I agree with him. Like his riding, my riding is very rural, with a lot of small communities scattered far apart. Rural transit is essential here. It has suffered a big blow in recent years, after Gre

Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, to be quick, I would say that, yes, this is one issue where the NDP and the Bloc agree completely.

Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, what is really clear to me is that a big component of any economic recovery we will have from the pandemic has to be aimed at getting women back into the job market. We have lost a tremendous share of the job market that women used to have. They took the real hit in

Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I am happy to speak today on the budget implementation act. There is a lot to talk about, so I will stick with a few important issues, and I will start with the good. This budget has a few elements that are remarkably similar to parts of the NDP election platform in

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, last week, the leading experts in the International Energy Agency released a report calling for an end to the development of new oil and gas projects if the world was to meet the target of net-zero emissions by 2050. However, the federal government subsidized the oil

Public Safety  Madam Speaker, flooding along the Mackenzie River has already devastated Fort Simpson and Jean Marie River, and is threatening four more communities. Yesterday, people from nearby communities generously organized an airlift of vital supplies into the flooded towns. Meanwhile, the

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, the Bloc Québécois made it clear that it did not want to have an election during the pandemic, but we know that the Prime Minister refuses to commit to not holding an election. Does the member believe that adjusting the election rules for the pandemic should be an