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Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member for Toronto—Danforth for that wonderful speech. I am a bird biologist myself. I never thought it would come so soon in my rookie term as an MP to hear the words “important bird area”. I was going to bring up this fact myself in my que
March 8th, 2016House debate
Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, the member's party campaigned on transparency, but there seems to be a lot of secrecy and a lack of action regarding Bombardier's situation. Is his government planning to match the $1 billion lifeline for Bombardier?
March 8th, 2016House debate
Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, I would like to comment on my colleague's take on secondary airports. He mentioned the Abbotsford international airport, which I am quite familiar with. I would suggest to him that Billy Bishop airport in the heart of Toronto is in a very different situation than Abb
March 8th, 2016House debate
Forestry Industry Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's trip to Washington is about more than cocktail parties and magazine spreads. The softwood lumber issue is important to Canadian industry from coast to coast, and workers are worried about how the new agreement will affect their livelihoods. Sof
March 7th, 2016House debate
Petitions Mr. Speaker, I would like to present a petition to the House from constituents in my riding of South Okanagan—West Kootenay, who point out that our present electoral system produces a Parliament where the number of MPs for each party does not reflect the number of voters who supp
February 26th, 2016House debate
Canada Labour Code Mr. Speaker, we in the NDP support this bill. It is a good first step. However, as the member mentioned in his speech, more needs to be done to protect hard-working Canadians in their workplaces. I would ask him to expand on his comments about health and safety concerns and when
February 26th, 2016House debate
Canada's Contribution to the Effort to Combat ISIL Madam Speaker, I would give one answer to that, which I can say right away and briefly. This is not our war. If they want to point fingers, they could say it was the Americans and their ill-advised actions in Iraq who have created this instability. If the Americans feel obliged
February 23rd, 2016House debate
Canada's Contribution to the Effort to Combat ISIL Madam Speaker, I will be dividing my time in the debate with the member for Timmins—James Bay. I am happy to rise in the House this afternoon to speak against both the motion and the amendment to that motion. I was encouraged to hear the speeches earlier this afternoon given by
February 23rd, 2016House debate
Canada's Contribution to the Effort to Combat ISIL Mr. Speaker, we have heard the past few Conservative speakers defending the Canadian bombing mission, but as the other member across the floor mentioned, there is a long history in this region of bombing missions doing nothing but further destabilizing the area. In fact, most exp
February 23rd, 2016House debate
Syrian Refugees Mr. Speaker, I would first like to wish my son Russell a happy 29th birthday today. On a more serious note, all Canadians have been witness to the humanitarian tragedy unfolding in Syria. The devastating images of entire families risking everything to flee the violence have pus
February 23rd, 2016House debate
Forestry Industry Mr. Speaker, the softwood lumber agreement expired last year, but the government has shown no signs of working to get a new deal. There are thousands of jobs on the line in forestry communities throughout British Columbia and across this country. The clock is ticking on these goo
February 18th, 2016House debate
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, I want to ask the member opposite about the credibility of the National Energy Board and its really flawed assessment process. The environment commissioner's report recently showed that the NEB does not track compliance in over half of all of the cases studied. I w
January 28th, 2016House debate
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, the Liberal government has been talking about restoring the confidence of Canadians in the environmental assessment process around these pipelines. Yesterday, at a hastily called news conference, it announced what it called a new process. However, it will not chang
January 28th, 2016House debate
Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply Mr. Speaker, the member opposite took some of the words right out of my mouth with his comments. However, the member for Beauce mentioned zero wealth creation, something about which the previous government knew a lot. It comes down to the fact that there are two sides to govern
January 26th, 2016House debate
Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply Mr. Speaker, I would like to touch on the infrastructure question. When I was campaigning throughout the riding, I met with almost all the mayors and councillors in the 41 communities.. Infrastructure was at the top of their list at all times. They wanted the infrastructure fundi
December 11th, 2015House debate