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Mr. Speaker, ALS is a progressive neurological disease with no cure. Nearly 4,000 Canadians are currently living with ALS, and each year about 1,000 more will be diagnosed, while another 1,000 will lose their lives to this devastating illness. An ALS diagnosis is life-changing for patients and their loved ones. I recently met with my constituent, Christopher May, who was recently diagnosed. Despit…
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Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Orders 104 and 114, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the 13th report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, regarding membership of committees of the House. If the House gives its consent, I intend to move concurrence in the 13th report later this day.
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Mr. Speaker, it being later this day, if the House gives its consent, I move that the 13th report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, presented to the House earlier this day, be concurred in.
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Mr. Speaker, I hope you will allow me a bit of latitude to wish my constituents very happy holidays and a very merry Christmas in St. Catharines. I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the 12th report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, entitled “Question of Privilege Related to the Member for Wellington—Halton Hills and Other Members”.
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Mr. Chair, I would like to thank my hon. colleagues who have participated in this debate. I understand the emotion on all sides that we heard. We heard some emotional speeches. There has been a lot of finger-pointing and blaming, but I understand where that comes from. St. Catharines has a long tradition of automotive manufacturing. The largest private sector employer in my riding is General Motor…
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Mr. Chair, I like that he says criss-crossing. My riding is not geographically that large, but I do get across it as much as possible. There is an apprehension that I think exists in all of our ridings. The closer we get to the border, the closer that is, because that friendship and trust have been broken. Since the Second World War, we have looked to the United States and the United States has lo…
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Mr. Chair, that is nonsense, and this is what we have been seeing from the Conservatives for years. The carbon tax had nothing to do with this. The auto sector was increasing, and it is ridiculous for that member to even point to that. Now he brings up the EV mandate. As of a few months ago, the EV industry was continuing to grow in this sector. It had nothing to do with that, yet he refuses to bl…
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Mr. Chair, I do not think anyone has given up on electric vehicles. As I mentioned, as of right now, there is a billion-dollar battery separator plant being built in the Niagara Region. This is as we speak; it is transformational. The automotive industry has jumped leaps and bounds over the last few years, and that is continuing as ranges are getting higher. We are seeing some of the old tired tal…
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Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Orders 104 and 114, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the 11th report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, regarding the membership of committees of the House. If the House gives its consent, I move that the 11th report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs be concurred in.
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Mr. Speaker, in baseball, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose and sometimes it rains. What we are feeling this week comes from caring so deeply about this incredible Blue Jays team, a team that finished last just a season ago and somehow gave us a magical run that no one expected. Sure, the other night hurt, but this season was special. These were players who gave everything, who understood what…
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Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Orders 104 and 115, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the sixth report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, regarding the membership of committees of the House. If the House gives its consent, I intend to move concurrence in the sixth report later this day. I also have the honour to present, in both official languages, …
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Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the fifth report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs. The committee advises that, pursuant to Standing Order 91.1(2), the Subcommittee on Private Members' Business met to consider items added to the order of precedence on September 23, 24 and 25, and recommended that the items listed herein, which it has de…
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Mr. Speaker, it now being later this day, if the House gives its consent, I move that the fourth report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, presented to the House earlier this day, be concurred in.
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Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 104 and Standing Order 114, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the fourth report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, regarding the membership of committees in the House. If the House gives its consent, I intend to move concurrence in the fourth report later this day.
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Mr. Speaker, to borrow a line, Jim Bradley was as “constant as the northern star”. From when he was first elected to city council in 1970, few can remember a time when Jim was not serving our community. He was elected to Queen's Park in 1977, becoming the second longest-serving MPP in Ontario's history, and served as Niagara's regional chair until his death. As environment minister, he shaped the …
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Madam Speaker, pursuant to Standing Orders 104 and 114, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the third report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, regarding the membership of committees of the House. If the House gives its consent, I intend to move concurrence in the third report later this day.
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Madam Speaker, if the House gives its consent, I move that the third report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, presented to the House earlier this day, be concurred in.
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Mr. Speaker, if the House gives its consent, I move that the second report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, presented to the House earlier this day, be concurred in.
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Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Orders 104 and 114, I am honoured to present, in both official languages, the second report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, regarding the membership of the committees of the House. If the House gives its consent, I intend to move concurrence in the second report later this day.
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Mr. Speaker, before I begin, I would like to congratulate you on your new appointment. As someone who did his master's thesis on a very specific thing, which I believe was the Thursday question, you have a love of this place. It is good to see you in that chair. This is an important bill. I think all of us have heard from Canadians during the election that public safety is fundamentally important …
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Mr. Speaker, I do not understand this item that is out there. I have seen it, that we cannot pay cash anymore. I cannot pay $10,000 in cash for an item at a local business. I do not know what local businesses Conservative members are going to. These things are solved. As a member of the Law Society of Ontario, we were told years ago to never accept that amount of cash, as we then may be complicit …
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Money order, as the hon. member said on the other side. Mr. Speaker, these are things we can get. A bank draft is typically the most common. I do not know how these members pay for things at their local stores. If it is about $10,000 in cash, that is a different world than I operate in.
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Mr. Speaker, I do not know if I will have enough time to get to all of that, but I will sum it up. Being a member from the Niagara region, my house is only about a 10-minute drive from the border. I think everyone in my community understands that safe borders lead to safe communities. It is fundamentally important that we take action as a government to ensure that CBSA has the tools it needs, and …
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Mr. Speaker, I would love for the Conservatives to take that energy and apply it to all of their policies with respect to criminal justice and bring a rights-based approach first. This legislation complies with the Charter of Rights. We will continue to comply with the Charter of Rights. I hope the Conservatives engage in the future with respect to all of their policies because it has been absent …
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Mr. Speaker, the following questions will be answered today: Nos. 3075, 3078 to 3080, 3082, 3084, 3085 and 3088.
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Madam Speaker, the member's speech just shows how unserious the Conservative Party is about this. For 20 minutes, we have seen the member smirking, talking about such things as J.R. Ewing, Darcy Tucker and General Hospital. He has quoted a comical German prison guard from the Second World War multiple times. That is how serious they are about this. I am wondering if the member could actually spend…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. With respect to questions on the Order Paper, I believe that if you seek it, you will find unanimous consent for me to answer a number of questions today.
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Furthermore, Mr. Speaker, if the government's responses to Questions Nos. 3073, 3074, 3076, 3077, 3081, 3083, 3086, 3087 and 3089 could be made orders for return, these returns would be tabled in an electronic format immediately.
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Madam Speaker, on the same point of order, Standing Order 18 prohibits reflection on a member's vote. Again, it is disgusting, what the members are trying to do in this place.
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Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8)(a), I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the government's response to six petitions. These returns will be tabled in an electronic format.
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Madam Speaker, on a point of order, it is unconscionable that the member rises on his feet with a smile on his face to mention that name in this place. It is disgusting. It is disgusting that—
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Madam Speaker, if the government's responses to Questions Nos. 3059 to 3067 and 3069 could be made orders for return, these returns would be tabled in an electronic format immediately.
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Madam Speaker, I think if you seek it, you will find unanimous consent for me to answer three questions today.
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Madam Speaker, I ask that all remaining questions be allowed to stand.
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Madam Speaker, the following questions will be answered today: Nos. 3057, 3058 and 3068.
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Mr. Speaker, without an ounce of irony, the hon. member gets up and talks about breaking promises. That member ran on pricing pollution; he and every member of his party ran on a carbon tax. It is in his platform.
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Mr. Speaker, he is heckling; he says, “Show me where it is.” There was an announcement. It was on the cover of the Conservatives' platform. The guy with the muscles, whom they got rid of a little bit after, ran on a carbon price. It is shocking. I looked it up before the speech, and more than half of the member's province is currently in drought conditions. However, in his entire speech, he did no…
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Mr. Speaker, I do not know where the hon. member thinks I come from, but there is a lot of agricultural land. I speak to farmers in Niagara, especially grape growers, and they are incredibly worried about climate change. Looking at British Columbia, farmers have lost 95% of their crops because of the impacts of climate change. The hon. member does not care. He buries his head in the sand and still…
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Mr. Speaker, last week, the Conservative leader announced his plan to shut down housing projects across the country. He is proposing reckless cuts that will devastate housing progress in Canada, including in my own riding of St. Catharines. Even his own MPs are going behind his back to secretly write the housing minister to support the housing accelerator fund and advocate that their communities g…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the hon. member for Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis for her work on this file. The government supports this legislation, and I would like to take a few moments to explain why. Everyone deserves a healthy workplace where they feel safe. It is a basic right, yet one that many workers are denied. Harassment and violence at work still happen and no workplace is immun…
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Mr. Speaker, I just want to say it is disgusting that the hon. member across the way, with a smile on his face, would mention a serial killer's name in this place and attempt to use it for political gain—
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to part (a), as of October 1, 1998, under the Social Housing Agreement, or SHA, found at https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/about-us/social-housing-information/administration-of-social-housing, CMHC transferred Lions Place, a 287-unit building located at 610 Portage Avenue in Winnipeg to the Manitoba Housing and Renewal Corporation, the MHRC. Under the terms of the SHA, MHRC, was…
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority, WDBA, and the awarding of the contract to CIMA+ for the site pre-engineering contract, of which one project included the bury of the transmission and distribution lines on the construction of the Gordie Howe International Bridge project, the response is as follows. With respect to part (a), the premise to the question is factually inacc…
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to the government's applications under the disaster mitigation adaptation fund, the DMAF, and the statements made by the Mayor of Merritt, Michael Goetz, and the Mayor of Princeton, Spencer Coyne, in response to part (a) of the question, the DMAF is a national, merit-based, competitive program, and projects are assessed based on the information provided in the project appl…
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to the delays of the Gordie Howe International Bridge project, the early works involving Valard, SLR, CIMA+, and others had no impact on the overall Gordie Howe International Bridge project schedule. All contracts associated with the early works were separate from the public-private partnership contract. Early works activities did not affect the schedule delay announced in…
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to the tendering process and announcement that CIMA+ was to be awarded the pre-engineering contract for the Gordie Howe International Bridge project, please note that with respect to this tendering process that occurred in 2016, Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority’s procurement policy was followed. With respect to part (a), there were no official memos between the Chairman Dw…
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Mr. Speaker, if a revised response to Question No. 2626, originally tabled on June 27, and the government's responses to Questions Nos. 2700, 2702, 2706 to 2711, 2713 to 2715, 2717, 2719 to 2723, 2725, 2727 to 2738, 2740, 2741, 2743, 2745, 2746, 2748 to 2752, 2754, 2755, 2758, 2759, 2761, 2763, 2764, 2767 to 2769, 2772, 2775, 2781, 2784 to 2787, 2789, 2790, 2793, 2796 to 2798, 2801, 2802, 2804, 28…
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to Disaster Mitigation Adaptation Fund applications received from communities in British Columbia since 2021, in response to parts (a) and (c), the Disaster Mitigation Adaptation Fund is a national, merit-based, competitive program. Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada, or HICC, recognizes the importance of all projects it receives, however funds are limited, and…
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to the housing accelerator fund and the government's response to Order Paper Question No. 2531, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation determined that the entities in question, such as counties or upper-tier municipalities in the areas in Ontario, did not meet the eligibility criteria for the housing accelerator fund program. Eligibility is contingent upon having delegate…
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to the failure of the schedule 40 pipe used on the Gordie Howe International Bridge project, please note that this question relates to a dispute involving the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority or WDBA, its contractor Valard, and Valard’s subcontractor Sterling Ridge Group Ltd., “SLR”. WDBA, Valard, and SLR entered into a settlement regarding that dispute. The minutes of set…
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