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Justice  Mr. Speaker, at no point has the current Minister of Justice or his predecessor been pressured or directed by the Prime Minister or anyone in his office to make a decision on this or any other matter.

February 8th, 2019House debate

Arif Virani

Justice  Mr. Speaker, at no point has the current Minister of Justice or the former minister of justice been pressured or directed by the Prime Minister or the Prime Minister's Office to make any decision on this or any other matter. I absolutely agree with my colleague across the way t

February 8th, 2019House debate

Arif Virani

Justice  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the question. At no point has the current Minister of Justice or his predecessor been directed or pressured by the Prime Minister or the Prime Minister's Office to make a decision on this or any other matter. The Attorney General of Canada is the chief l

February 8th, 2019House debate

Arif Virani

Justice  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the comments of my colleague opposite. I work very hard to stand up for both official languages in the House. At no point has the Minister of Justice or the former minister of justice been pressured or directed by the Prime Minister or the Prime Minist

February 8th, 2019House debate

Arif Virani

Justice  Mr. Speaker, we have been abundantly clear. At no point has the Minister of Justice or the former minister of justice been pressured or directed by the Prime Minister or the Prime Minister's Office to make any decision on this or any other matter. The Attorney General is the chi

February 8th, 2019House debate

Arif Virani

Justice  Mr. Speaker, I will reiterate for the House that at no point has the current Minister of Justice or the former minister of justice been pressured or directed by the Prime Minister or anyone else in his office to make a decision on this or any other matter. As the Prime Minister s

February 8th, 2019House debate

Arif Virani

Justice  Mr. Speaker, at no time was the current Minister of Justice or his predecessor pressured or directed by the Prime Minister or his office to make any decision on this or any other matter. As the Prime Minister said yesterday, these allegations are false.

February 8th, 2019House debate

Arif Virani

Justice  Mr. Speaker, at no point has the current Minister of Justice or the former minister of justice been directed or pressured by the Prime Minister or the Prime Minister's Office to make any decision on this or any other matter. The Attorney General of Canada is the chief law offic

February 8th, 2019House debate

Arif Virani

Justice  Mr. Speaker, at no point has the current Minister of Justice or the former minister of justice been pressured or directed by the Prime Minister or anyone else in the Prime Minister's Office, and let me reiterate that, or anyone else in the Prime Minister's Office, to make any dec

February 8th, 2019House debate

Arif Virani

Justice  Mr. Speaker, at no point has the current Minister of Justice or the former minister of justice been pressured or directed by the Prime Minister or anyone in the Prime Minister's Office, including the individual just mentioned by the member for Carleton, to make any decision on th

February 8th, 2019House debate

Arif Virani

Indigenous Languages Act  Madam Speaker, I appreciate the intervention and comments made by my colleague opposite. I have two things to say in response. First of all, we drafted this bill in collaboration with indigenous communities. In other words, we have already consulted them. We reviewed this bill v

February 7th, 2019House debate

Arif Virani

Indigenous Languages Act  Madam Speaker, I appreciate this intervention. It is critically important. We heard that over and over again in the consultations—that what we need is supports in terms of resources and what we need is stable, long-term, predictable funding. I have a few things to say in respons

February 7th, 2019House debate

Arif Virani

Indigenous Languages Act  Madam Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Winnipeg North. Chi-meegwetch, which means “thank you very much”. I start my remarks in Algonquin, cognizant that I speak today in the House of Commons, which is located on unceded Algonquin territory and also cog

February 7th, 2019House debate

Arif Virani

Divorce Act  Mr. Speaker, first, I would like to congratulate my friend on the other side for his election and for his recent membership on the justice committee. Shared parenting is an important issue. It came up in the time allocation debate. Shared parenting is not entrenched in law righ

February 6th, 2019House debate

Arif Virani

Divorce Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank the official opposition critic for his contributions to the bill. It is an important point about relocation. I will underscore two points. One, as I said in comments, relocation is one of the most litigated areas in the entire family justice domain. Therefore

February 6th, 2019House debate

Arif Virani