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

Opposition Motion—Pharmacare  Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the parliamentary secretary for laying out the government's position on this motion. Many members know I have a lot of problems with the way we currently have our system designed. I am worried that a national pharmacare system will compound all thos

Opposition Motion—Pharmacare  Mr. Speaker, I was listening carefully to my colleague's speech. He knows I have an interest in this particular file, and I have more of a comment than a question. When the member talked about single-payer, streamlining and efficiency when referring to national pharmacare, I ho

Rare Disease Day  Mr. Speaker, Rare Disease Day came and went on February 29, the rarest day of all. This year's theme is, “Rare is many worldwide. Rare is strong every day. Rare is proud everywhere.” Millions of Canadians, two-thirds of them children, are affected by one of over 7,000 rare diseas

Emergency Debate  Mr. Speaker, I know that this debate is almost finished, but I will continue to speak in French since I am addressing my Bloc colleagues. This is not the Bloc that I remember. I was a child of Bill 101 and a member from the west. I experienced the referendums and I saw an entire

Emergency Debate  Madam Speaker, several members now have said that Teck made a business decision not to proceed. Obviously we are blaming the government for this unfortunate decision and the 10,000 jobs that are lost. In paragraph 2, the CEO says in reference to this project, “it is commercially

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, first, the easy answer is that the math does not agree. I know that is difficult for the member to accept. Second, as I remember, it was his leader at the time, Jack Layton, who demanded more spending and even larger deficits and more debt. It was a deal the New D

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, thankfully the great citizens of this country have never found it necessary to put a federal NDP government in charge of our public treasury, and I hope it stays that way. That way, the New Democrats can never pretend they had a chance to balance anything. This is

Business of Supply  I hear the member heckling me because he does not like my answer, but that is simply the matter. We have a $26.6-billion deficit. In my home province of Alberta, diagnostic services are a private area. They are paid for publicly but are privately administered. The Province of Qu

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I would like to thank the member for his question. With regard to his question about Quebec, I do not know whether the province offers this service to its residents or not. That is a choice that Quebeckers need to make with their provincial government. What I do

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I am glad to be joining the debate on the NDP motion. I again thank my constituents for sending me here to represent them in this cathedral of our democracy and to speak to the motion. When I was looking over both the text of the motion and listening to the debate

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, the member is a westerner in a social gospel kind of movement. He and his father are among those rare NDPers that sometimes Conservatives can agree with. I obviously like the first part of the motion and the member knows this. The second part of the motion I have a

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I am presenting two petitions. The first is from petitioners in my riding who are asking for the immediate repeal of Bill C-48 and Bill C-69. One is the anti-pipeline bill and the other is the tanker ban on the west coast. The petitioners from my riding remind the G

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, the second petition also comes from petitioners in my riding. They are demanding that the government stop raising their taxes and immediately commit to rejecting all tax increases to leave more money in the pockets of the people who earn it.