Controlled Drugs and Substances Act   article of property rights. If people are going to do something with someone else's property, his or her permission is needed. It is very simple. Most of the best things in life are simple, and that is why we have a bill, thankfully and mercifully, written in one paragraph

Canadian Heritage committee   products, because copyright and intellectual property rights might be less protected? Is that a parallel we can draw?

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Pierre Killeen. I am Vice-President of Government Relations with Hydropothecary, an authorized medical use cannabis producer located in Gatineau, Quebec. We were the first authorized producer in Quebec and we are now the only authorized producer

Finance committee  Yes. I just want to make sure I understand the provision. Division 20 of part 6 would allow those who are suspected of the crimes of stolen property, fraud, insider trading, and bribery of a foreign public official to avoid prosecution by signing onto a deferred prosecution

International Trade committee   are joining me today. My colleagues are negotiating leads in some the key areas of the CPTPP. Kendal Hembroff is Director of Trade Policy and Negotiations for Asia in Global Affairs Canada. Next is Pierre Bouchard, Director of Bilateral and Regional Labour Affairs at Employment and Social

Finance committee  In part 1 of the bill, there are situations where some people will have the right to use exemption certificates. If you want to talk mainly about farmers, I can talk about farmers. As a general rule, as I explained in my presentation the other day, the people who pay the fuel

Postal Banking System   from 1869 to 1968, for about 100 years. That system was ended under then prime minister Pierre Trudeau who, as we all know, was a great proponent of reducing the role of the government. That his government ended this system should tell us something. It should really give us pause

Report Stage   from possessing marijuana altogether. Young people should not have any opportunity to get their hands on drugs. There are also questions about the various cannabis-based products and the as yet undefined licensing strategies. Rental property owners are having problems as well

Canadian Bill of Rights   disagree with both extremes, which are the Marxist thinkers of Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto on one end of the spectrum, and on the other, those of the Calgary School, who believe in property rights above all else, where others believe in the right to housing. Both

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   advisory multi-stakeholder panel. Several MAC members apply TSM outside Canada as well. Recently, MAC also made mandatory the implementation of the voluntary principles on security and human rights on a global basis, the first and only industry association in the world to make

Bill C-30 Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Implementation Act

in goods and services in order to contribute to the harmonious development and expansion of world and regional trade; (f) provide adequate and effective protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights in the territory where the Agreement applies; (g) protect, enhance

Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement   there are very robust workers rights and environmental protections; very solid workplace health and safety regulations that are comparable to what we have here in Canada; and excellent food safety and product safety regulations. This is a continent that Canada can certainly work well

Natural Resources committee   a lot of uncertainty around the globe, and our fortunes are very much tied to the global economy, a lot of it in base metals in China. With gold, a lot of it right now has to do with the interest rate environment. We do compete globally for capital. Bringing it back to the focus

Canada Pension Plan   in a big, opportunity filled free enterprise economy where Canadians get to choose what is right for them. That is what free enterprise means, and that is why it is the greatest poverty fighting machine ever invented. Prior to the current government's taking office, we

Electoral Reform committee  . I want to talk very quickly about a bit of history because I think it's really important. I know when P.E.I.'s legislature formed, it was white, propertied, Protestant males who composed the legislature. By 1864, when we actually had all the fathers get together—I've never been