Health  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to draw attention to a very serious environmental and health issue. Health Canada has still not issued the report that it started 10 years ago on the dangers of wood that has been treated with chromated copper arsenate, CCA. Arsenic and chromium are lis

Species at Risk Act  moved: Motion No. 103 That Bill C-5, in Clause 64, be amended by replacing lines 13 to 15 on page 36 with the following: “64.(1) The Minister shall, in accordance with the regulations, provide full, just and timely compensation to any person for losses”

Species at Risk Act  moved: Motion No. 111 That Bill C-5, in Clause 64, be amended by replacing line 36 on page 36 with the following: “sion of compensation, including rules for the recovery of reasonable legal and other costs arising as a result of the compensation claim.”

Species at Risk Act  Mr. Speaker, in looking at the amendments in Group No. 1, I will be addressing in particular two amendments that I have put forward, Motion No. 103 and Motion No. 111. Both of them deal with the very important issue of compensation to landowners, particularly farmers, for land us

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I seek unanimous consent of the House to present a dissenting report to the report of the Standing Joint Committee on Official Languages. The reason for which this dissenting report is being submitted in this unusual manner is that the co

Species at Risk Act  moved: Motion No. 39 That Bill C-5, in Clause 32, be amended by replacing line 30 on page 19 with the following: “32. (1) No person shall knowingly kill, harm, harass,”. Motion No. 44 That Bill C-5, in Clause 33, be amended by replacing line 10 on page 20 with the following:

Species at Risk Act  moved: Motion No. 80 That Bill C-5, in Clause 58, be amended by replacing line 39 on page 31 with the following: “58. (1) No person shall knowingly destroy any part of”.

Species at Risk Act  moved: Motion No. 57 That Bill C-5, in Clause 36, be amended by replacing line 28 on page 22 with the following: “territorial minister, no person shall knowingly”.

Species at Risk Act  moved: Motion No. 86 That Bill C-5, in Clause 60, be amended by replacing line 12 on page 34 with the following: “rial minister, no person shall knowingly destroy any part”. Motion No. 90 That Bill C-5, in Clause 61, be amended by replacing line 22 on page 34 with the follow

Species at Risk Act  moved: Motion No. 95 That Bill C-5, in Clause 61, be amended by deleting lines 27 to 40 on page 34 and lines 1 to 40 on page 35.

Species at Risk Act  moved: Motion No. 122 That Bill C-5, in Clause 100, be amended by replacing lines 16 and 17 on page 57 with the following: “100. A person is not guilty of an offence under this Act unless the person knowingly committed the act that is the subject of the offence.” Debate arose

Species at Risk Act  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak in favour of the several amendments I have put forth which seek to remedy the glaring absence of mens rea in Bill C-5. Allow me to explain a bit about mens rea in Canadian criminal law. Our criminal justice system is based upon several fundamen

Benoît Lécuyer  Mr. Speaker, it is with sorrow that I rise in the House today to pay tribute to a brave man who gave his life to protect our roads and our freedom. Constable Benoît Lécuyer, who was shot down in cold blood on February 28 during a routine arrest for speeding, will not be forgotten

Health Care  Mr. Speaker, the primary victim of the federal-provincial fiscal inequity that the finance minister is always so anxious to deny is the health care system. The minister knows full well that the needs of our health care system will continue to grow as the population ages. He also

Health Care  Mr. Speaker, the minister's policy is evidently that if we withhold money from all provinces this would somehow benefit the poorer provinces. Let me draw the attention of the finance minister to the remarks of Canada's academic authority on fiscal federalism. Thomas Courchene re