Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to government funding: for each fiscal year since 2007-2008 inclusive, (a) what are the details of all grants, contributions, and loans to any organization, body, or group in the electoral district of Labrador, providing for each (i) the name of the recipient, (ii) th

Aboriginal Affairs  Mr. Speaker, over 1,000 constituents of mine have launched a court action against the federal government related to abuses suffered by aboriginal students at residential schools in Newfoundland and Labrador. These schools were not included in the Indian residential school apology

International Development  Mr. Speaker, the child mortality rate in low-income countries is, sadly, 13 times higher than in developed countries. How has the Conservative government chosen to honour our country's commitment to protect vulnerable children? It has deliberately underspent Canada's aid budget

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise today to debate Bill C-583. This is a bill I believe strongly in, and I would like to thank my colleague opposite, the member for Yukon, for introducing it. I would also like to acknowledge and thank my colleague, the member for Charlottetown, fo

Aboriginal Affairs  Mr. Speaker, the Auditor General has reported that the Nutrition North program is not providing affordable food to northern families. Instead, the funds are profiting others. The program has no continuity, no defined eligibility, no assurances that the subsidy is being passed on

Yukon and Nunavut Regulatory Improvement Act  Mr. Speaker, my question is for the minister. Once again, it seems that the government has succeeded in being offside of what first nations groups in the country are asking for when it comes to enacting legislation for partnership in moving forward with development projects. Th

Yukon and Nunavut Regulatory Improvement Act  Mr. Speaker, we are sitting here listening to the debate today, and what I am hearing from the NDP side is that it does not want these committees to go out and it does not want to listen to or consult with people. On the other side, we hear the government talking about all the co

Yukon and Nunavut Regulatory Improvement Act  Mr. Speaker, I am rising today because I feel it is important to speak to Bill S-6. It is important not only to the Yukon and the people who live there, but also to Canadians. Bill S-6, the Yukon and Nunavut regulatory improvement act, is one of those bills that we have traditio

Yukon and Nunavut Regulatory Improvement Act  Mr. Speaker, first of all, the legislation should have come here before it went to the Senate. It disappoints me that it was done the other way. However, how those in the Senate vote is entirely up to them. I feel that I am entitled to vote as I feel. From the consultation that

Yukon and Nunavut Regulatory Improvement Act  Mr. Speaker, I agree with my colleague from the Northwest Territories that government has a responsibility to hold appropriate public consultations and to discuss changes that are coming forward in legislation with the people who are impacted. However, I also feel that as parlia

Yukon and Nunavut Regulatory Improvement Act  Mr. Speaker, trust is always earned. What we have seen over the last couple of years is that trust is not being earned by the existing government. I will cite some examples. We have seen the erosion of the tribunal process for aboriginal first nations in this country, a process

Yukon and Nunavut Regulatory Improvement Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Yukon for his remarks today. I know he wants to ensure that we have the strongest working relationships we can with our first nations and aboriginal governments across Canada. I am sure he expects to ensure that the government has that same

Nunatsiavut  Mr. Speaker, yesterday marked the ninth anniversary of the settlement of the Labrador Inuit land claim and the creation of the Nunatsiavut Government. Nunatsiavut, which in lnuktitut means “our beautiful land”, was the first Inuit region in Canada to achieve self-governance, whic

Aboriginal Affairs  Mr. Speaker, reports of Inuit eating from landfill sites in Rankin Inlet, reports of hunger in remote Arctic communities, the Auditor General's damning report on the Nutrition North food subsidy program, and homelessness all add up to the complete neglect of Canada's northern and

Northern Development  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's trip to the Arctic was a $786,000 photo op this past summer. Did he not see the homelessness and the hunger of the northern and Inuit people? Did anyone inform the government of people digging in landfill sites for food? The minister for the are