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Status of Women  Mr. Speaker, as the 16 days of activism to end violence against women go on, women's groups across Canada still struggle to keep their doors open. These groups give critical front-line service to women fleeing violence. They told us, “if you value the lives of women, you're going

November 30th, 2018House debate

Sheila MalcolmsonNDP

Poverty Reduction Act  Mr. Speaker, we all want poverty to be eliminated in our country and women have been at the front line of poverty, no question. When women are paid less because there is no proactive federal pay equity legislation, they are the ones who drop out of the workplace to look after kid

November 30th, 2018House debate

Sheila MalcolmsonNDP

Ending the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act  Mr. Speaker, the member for Saanich—Gulf Islands and I both represent regions of the Salish Sea, both very much informed by our constituents. They talk about the need to protect whales, to take our responsibility as citizens, now that we know the impacts on these highly social sp

November 29th, 2018House debate

Sheila MalcolmsonNDP

Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, here we are under time allocation, debating the budget implementation bill, Bill C-86. We have been waiting three years in this Parliament for pay equity legislation to be tabled. Canadian women have been waiting 42 years since the first Trudeau prime minister prom

November 29th, 2018House debate

Sheila MalcolmsonNDP

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, the calamity of marine plastic pollution is evident all over the world. Plastics are making their way into our oceans and lakes via storm drains and global ocean currents, and consumer disposal and industrial waste, and making their way into salmon on the west coast

November 29th, 2018House debate

Sheila MalcolmsonNDP

Canada's Oil and Gas Sector  Mr. Speaker, in what imaginary world did any of those things happen under the Liberals' watch? During the election, they promised they would redo the Trans Mountain Kinder Morgan pipeline and did not. They added on this funny ministerial panel, which said to the government that t

November 28th, 2018House debate

Sheila MalcolmsonNDP

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, because bulk commercial anchorages, basically free parking in the Salish Sea, are causing threats to sport fishing, fish habitats, tremendous light and noise impacts on waterfront property owners, and a risk of oil spills in Plumper Sound, with near misses of three b

November 28th, 2018House debate

Sheila MalcolmsonNDP

Canada Post Corporation  Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are blocking equal pay and safer workplaces at Canada Post. A postal worker in my riding said, “Social assistance cheques were held back [by Canada Post]. We were instructed that we could not deliver these cheques even though they were in our Nanaimo fa

November 27th, 2018House debate

Sheila MalcolmsonNDP

Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 2  Madam Speaker, 42 years ago Prime Minister Trudeau promised to legislate pay equity for Canadian women's equal pay. It did not happen. Successive Liberal and Conservative governments delayed action. Three years ago the NDP had the current Liberal government to change its agenda

November 27th, 2018House debate

Sheila MalcolmsonNDP

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, vision loss is set to double over the next 20 years, and petitioners from Nanaimo and Ladysmith draw the House's attention to the fact that vision loss hits the most vulnerable, particularly youth, seniors and indigenous people. They urge that with better early detec

November 26th, 2018House debate

Sheila MalcolmsonNDP

Accessible Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to ensure that members of the House have a full appreciation for what is at stake and how much Canadians were counting on the Liberal government to get this accessibility bill right. It is long overdue. It is true that the Conservatives should have done it in

November 22nd, 2018House debate

Sheila MalcolmsonNDP

Marine Transportation  Mr. Speaker, this is what the BC Ferry & Marine Workers' Union is saying to me. Transport Canada just released the draft regulations on November 8. It held the national consultation meeting on November 14 and the Vancouver consultations took place yesterday. The closing comme

November 20th, 2018House debate

Sheila MalcolmsonNDP

Marine Transportation  Mr. Speaker, when I picked this issue up initially, I was talking with the transport minister about an issue of key passenger and marine safety in my riding, Nanaimo—Ladysmith, which I am honoured to represent. I asked if it was true that the transport minister would allow passen

November 20th, 2018House debate

Sheila MalcolmsonNDP

Child Care  Mr. Speaker, today, over a hundred advocates are here calling for universal affordable child care. Costs here are among the highest in the world. Some families pay more for child care than they do for rent, and our system barely serves one in four kids. Canada is investing a frac

November 20th, 2018House debate

Sheila MalcolmsonNDP

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, replacing the lottery with a cap that is all a first-come, first-served system is not remedying the problem. As members of Parliament, people come to us when the system is not working for them. We try to help guide them. Here is an example of what a constituent told

November 19th, 2018House debate

Sheila MalcolmsonNDP