Proceedings of the House and Committees  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Salaberry—Suroît for her question. All members of our Conservative caucus, particularly those from Quebec, such as the member for Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier, stand up for the rights and health of Quebeckers. I can assure the member that the Queb

Proceedings of the House and Committees  Mr. Speaker, like other members, I will begin by echoing the comments by the member for Regina—Qu'Appelle, the leader of Her Majesty's official opposition, that our prayers and thoughts are with the victims of the shooting over the weekend. It reminds members how precious life is

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the decision by the Minister of Finance to reclassify expenditures made to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and other multilateral development banks from provisioned assets with no residual value to a full investment asset: (a) why was the change mad

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the First-Time home buyer incentive (FTHBI) announced by the government in 2019, between September 1, 2019, and February 1, 2020: (a) how many applicants have applied for mortgages through the FTHBI, broken down by province and municipality; (b) of those applicants

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I have listened to the debate so far from various members. I have talked about access for rare disease patients being very important. There is a University of Ottawa study from the IFSD Institute, which is where the former Parliamentary Budget Officer, Kevin Page,

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, the member for Fredericton mentioned that some members do not agree, so I thank her for recognizing that fact. I am pleased that she is here in the House and not her predecessor, whom I disagreed with often in this place. Despite having disagreements, obviously we

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, the first order of good government is do no harm. I will go back to my business experience at the Chamber of Commerce. Before we would roll out a new program for our membership, we would first test everything that could possibly go wrong. If something did not work,

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member for Shefford for the question. I will answer the first part of the question in French, and then I will switch to English to talk about the more technical aspects. I agree that some countries should be removed from the list of countries that

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, this is from a report of a few years ago on the estimated effects of adding universal public coverage of an essential medicines list to existing public drug plans in Canada. It stated that 117 essential medicines on the model list accounted for 44% of all prescript

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to join the debate at this late hour. For my introduction I have a good Yiddish proverb, which is, “It isn't done as easily as it's said”. It actually sounds way better in Yiddish. However, the proposal in the motion sounds good. It is something I thin

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I have raised the issue repeatedly about access for rare disease patients. That is what I want to talk about some more. One of the ways the national pharmacare would work is this. The current architecture for drug approvals in Canada goes through CADTH first for a he

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, the comment the member made about patient families being used by pharmaceutical companies when they are coming to Parliament Hill to advocate for themselves is an absolutely shameful comment to make in the House. My family is affected by a rare disease. Being in the

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, throughout the day I have heard members talk about the price of drugs and how difficult it is for some individuals to gain access to them. I have given this example before. Access is what we should be talking about, especially for patients with rare diseases. The s

Transportation  Mr. Speaker, later this year, Wayne Sands in my riding, will be made unemployed by Transport Canada. Wayne is 79 and was refused the renewal of his marine medical certificate for ocean-going vessels. Wayne is the captain of the S.S. Moyie, an amusement park ride at Heritage Par

Opposition Motion—Pharmacare  Madam Speaker, I have been listening to what people have been saying. I have more of a commentary on what the member said and what his colleague said when he introduced the motion this morning. On November 25, 2019, the minister of finance in Alberta sent a letter to the Ministe