Status of Women  Madam Speaker, the problem is that the good words of the government are not being matched with action. The federal government spends 1.6% of the actual cost to women, which is $12 billion in economic impact every year, to actually end violence against women. It is just $189 milli

Status of Women  Madam Speaker, rates of violence against women have remained largely unchanged for the past two decades. There are some sad facts that back this up. One million women report having experienced sexual or domestic violence in the past five years. Indigenous women are more than th

Child Care  Mr. Speaker, the member opposite articulates a good vision. The intentions of the government are good, but as with so many things, we are not seeing the action associated with them. Increasing the child benefit does not help parents unless more child care spaces are created in

Child Care  Mr. Speaker, there should be no question about what we need to do to advance child care in Canada. We need a universal child care system that is national, so all families have equal access; affordable; and with quality care. It is the smart and responsible thing to do. The cost

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to bring the voice of coastal communities, Nanaimo, Ladysmith, and Nanoose Bay, calling again on the government to act on the long-standing problem of abandoned vessels. The petitioners urge this Parliament to end the runaround to make the Coast Guard

Privilege  Mr. Speaker, I share the optimism of the member opposite about PROC being able to do its work. While I have the floor, I will remind the member that while in opposition he said: The government, by once again relying on a time allocation motion to get its agenda passed, speaks o

Privilege  Mr. Speaker, I want to begin this debate by reading from one of our national newspapers some words of Chantal Hébert: [The Prime Minister] does not much like the House of Commons and the feeling is mutual....[The Prime Minister] rarely engages with the opposition in a meaningfu

Canada Shipping Act, 2001  moved for leave to introduce Bill C-352, An Act to amend the Canada Shipping Act, 2001 and to provide for the development of a national strategy (abandonment of vessels). Mr. Speaker, for decades now, all three of Canada's coasts have been experiencing repeated calls from coasta

Fisheries and Oceans  Mr. Speaker, coastal communities have been calling for action to protect waterways from abandoned vessels for decades. The six-month deadline on the government's latest promise is just two weeks away, and the Minister of Transport's answer yesterday was old news with no impact.

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, let us come back to the report that we are debating, which is the consensus report of the New Democrats, the Conservatives, and the Liberal majority on the committee, saying that by June 2017, the government would have tabled legislation in the House to implement gen

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I was so proud as a brand new MP last February to have the House endorse the New Democrat opposition day motion that this government implement the recommendations of the 2004 Liberal task force on pay equity, and then last year to have the all-party committee recomme

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, the question is timely because this morning at committee we are studying Bill C-337, which is to require sexual assault training and gender sensitivity training for judges, following on the just terrible headlines. The few women who report sexual assault, the few wom

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, that is a good question that the member opposite asks, but in the absence of any transparency or any legislation, on this side of the House we have no idea. Women in Canada have no idea. The pre-budget media got top-of-the-fold headlines that this was going to be a

Committees of the House  moved: That the Fourth Report of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women, presented on Wednesday, June 15, 2016, be concurred in. Mr. Speaker, I had not appreciated that it has been almost a year since this report was tabled in the House. This was a unanimous report of

Indigenous Affairs  Madam Speaker, the answer is so disappointing, at every level. The ministerial panel specifically named six different questions that the government has to ask before it can go ahead and approve the pipeline. None of them have been answered. One example is how cabinet might squa