Fisheries committee   challenges that are related to that. I think DFO has done some excellent science. Out in our part of the world, we have the Pacific Biological Station, which is one of the world's foremost scientific institutions. I do want to ask about that. We have some world-class scientists there, Dr

Procedure and House Affairs committee   structure to get to that ultimate goal of universal enumeration. There is also technology and ways of doing that. I believe everyone should have to be enumerated. We shouldn't assume anything, even if they live in a suburban middle-class neighbourhood, in terms of universality

Immigration and Refugee Protection Act   or landed immigrant to sponsor, once in their lifetime, one family member from outside the family class as currently defined in the act. Specifically, this could be a son or daughter who is not a dependant and who is over age 22, a brother or sister, an aunt or uncle, a niece or nephew

Human Resources committee   of Canada represents virtually all railways operating in Canada, most of which are federally regulated, including the large class 1 CN and CPR railways, short-line and regional railways, intercity passenger and commuter rail services, and tourist railways. As its CEO, I am pleased

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   in 1920. He made the following comments: I want to get rid of the Indian problem. I do not think as a matter of fact, that the country ought to continuously protect a class of people who are able to stand alone.... Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian

The Budget   but they are not getting it. They are feeling disenfranchised. We are seeing that in the lower and lower voter turnouts across the country. The government has basically been telling untruths about the money that will be put into different programs. We have seen that in agriculture, in health care

Marriage   that, “The value of my marriage will be depreciated not enhanced if it is again to be restricted in our nation to a privileged class of heterosexual participants instead of being a right of all Canadians”--

Marriage   personally delivered them. Are we going to divide this country into those children who are children of certain couples and children who are not? Are we going to say that some children have more rights than others? Are we going to create second class children in this country based

Marriage   that is more than merely the rights of the majority. Under the charter, we have permitted a unique democracy in the world, where minority rights are upheld under that charter, where groups that are too small to have a voice have one, where groups that feel they might be second class

Marriage   surely must be one, I knew, but nobody in my world. I have since come to know that kids I knew very well, kids in my own class, were gay or lesbian. I have thought how impossibly hard it must have been for them. As teenagers, all of us had to struggle so hard to figure out what

Marriage  Mr. Speaker, I think the member and I fundamentally agree. We both believe in the traditional definition of marriage. But we cannot get there without agreeing to reopen the debate in the first place. We can certainly talk about how this may create three classes of citizens

Marriage   equal before the law. The proposed legislation that the motion calls for would create three classes of citizens in Canada and this is simply unacceptable. If the government were serious about this issue and not simply playing politics, it would have prepared legislation so that we

Marriage   hold around the world. In bringing the motion before the House, the government is attempting to create two classes of citizens with two different sets of rights. It is clearly an affront to our democratic and equality based traditions as a country. From the Netherlands to Belgium

Canadian Heritage committee  . It was on the front page of the The Globe and Mail and was the leading news item on national news for part of the day as well. This meant deaf and hard-of-hearing Canadians were no longer being treated like second-class citizens. That case was funded by the court challenges program, so you can

Canadian Heritage committee   graduated from English schools without attending classes in French. What resulted from this situation is that many children who attended English school now have difficulty speaking and writing French. For us, it is very important to continue fighting to acquire what should automatically