International Trade committee   intellectual property rights for vaccines, this seems to be a matter of debate today. The stakeholders have very different positions. It's good to hear all the points of view, of course. We've been talking about this since October 2020. However, the government still hasn't said whether

International Trade committee  That certainly answers the question, but I want to take it a step further. As you said, there's a lack of preparedness right now. Let's imagine a scenario where the World Trade Organization waived intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines. That's what you want. As far

Industry committee  Right. What you have is what I call a “snob mob”. These are the very wealthy aristocratic elite who already own houses in these leafy, beautiful neighbourhoods. They want to keep everyone else out, so they lobby against construction of new housing to drive up their own home

Industry committee   development for the industry. I'd like to go through some of the specifics. First of all, Shaw exercised its right to purchase a discounted spectrum that was set aside in order to promote additional competition. It's a spectrum that is only available to providers other than the big three

Health of Animals Act   to animal welfare and cross-contamination, which can have disastrous consequences for the health of an animal or the ability of an owner to keep their herd safe. As hon. members surely know, animal rights activitists have organized many protests on farms and at some processing plants

Health of Animals Act   and animal rights activists broke into a pig farm in Saint-Hyacinthe to protest the raising of animals for human consumption. They entered a hog barn, where they filmed a staged protest for nearly seven hours, sitting on the floor in front of the pig pens. Several Sûreté du Québec

Health committee   or intellectual property rights and allow those countries—or companies in those countries—to produce the vaccine. They've gone before WTO asking for the waiver. It's been postponed several times now. Mr. Davies has said that Canada opposes this waiver before WTO. Don, I don't know if you're

Canada—United Kingdom Trade Continuity Agreement Implementation Act   for our farmers. Let us show others the way. We have the right to assert ourselves. Once in a while, it is good to stand firm and stop giving in. I apologize to those who have already heard me say this, but I really like this sentence by Pierre Falardeau, who said, “If you lie down

Finance committee  Yes, it's called Beyond the Indian Act, and Chief Jules wrote the forward to the book. It is absolutely a must-read for everybody—Beyond the Indian Act: Restoring Aboriginal Property Rights.

Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner's Report   in their rocking chairs, while the Governor of the Bank of Canada and the banking system that it creates pumped air into those very same assets. Members should try talking to a young person who is attempting to buy a house these days. The asset inflation of real property has put that out

Business of Supply   in this miserable economy. Certainly that debt-induced spending would create activity, but never confuse activity with achievement. The CIBC has reported that a very large share of the government's COVID emergency spending has been leaking right out of Canada altogether, because the debt-funded

Broadcasting Act   or technical. They are about who we are and how we should be seen and how we want to be seen by our fellow citizens and the rest of the world. This is an interesting debate. It was decided years ago that the Hertzian waves were public property. If we lose sight of that, we are on the wrong

Business of Supply   are being detained on bogus charges, we cannot bury our heads in the sand and claim everything is fine. When pro-communist officials are intimidating Chinese Canadians on Canadian soil, it is impossible to turn a blind eye. When billions of dollars' worth of intellectual property

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I will be sharing my time today with the hon. member for Niagara Falls. I am very pleased to be joining the debate. Actually, I am happy to be talking about anything right now, as we just never know when an opposition party will ask for a document from

Business of Supply  . Here are some of those people, whom I feel we have a duty to remember: Gilles Gagliardi, Jean-Pierre Gagné, Théo Gagné, Armand Gagnon, Charles Gagnon, Michel Gagnon, Paul Gagnon—often whole families were arrested—Nicolas Galipeau, 15 years old and the son of Pauline Julien, Pascale