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Madam Speaker, on the heckling that the hon. parliamentary secretary to the government House leader was responding to, “Name one”, I would like to name the hon. member for Elgin—Middlesex—London. It was widely reported that she was removed as chair of a committee because she got along too well with members of other parties. I would also like to mention that this business of tracking how MPs behave…
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Mr. Speaker, one thing I find strange about this debate is that we are discussing a border between two sovereign nations. Such a border is required to be defended by both sovereign nations. We know that illegal handguns have been flooding into Canadian society from the weakness of the U.S. border. We know that we must fortify our own border. We know that drugs, and so on, come across the border fr…
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Mr. Speaker, in an effort to avoid bogging down the House, I do not rise to contribute to every debate. It does not mean that the Green Party of Canada does not exist in this place. The Speaker said that he had heard from all parties in this place. I try to be helpful, not invisible.
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Madam Speaker, as we see the days dwindling to when we can actually pass legislation, my constituents are particularly concerned with Bill C-33. It is on rail safety and management of marine issues around our ports. It was first introduced two ministers of transportation ago, more than two years ago, when the minister was the member for Mississauga—Erin Mills. Can the government update us? We have…
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Mr. Speaker, today we remember Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte and Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz. I thank the Chair and all my colleagues for their remarks. I thank the minister for her apt and sombre word…
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Mr. Speaker, I seek the unanimous consent of the House to add words on behalf of the Green Party of Canada on this very sombre day.
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Madam Speaker, I am sorry to have to say that, wherever the hon. member said “robust”, the correct adjective is “lax”. Where he said the pest management regulatory agency uses science, I would have to say it is colluding with industry at every stage. I urge all hon. members to see the further reporting, entitled “Deep links revealed between Canada's pesticide regulator and industry lobby groups” o…
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Mr. Speaker, I will start today by thanking my friend, the member of Parliament for Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, because it is rare that an S. O. 31 so hits home that I decide I had better put it on my social media page. The hon. member's S. O. 31 dealt with one theme, and that was kindness, how we can be kinder to each other. In the last week, we have seen some moments that we regret, some momen…
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Madam Speaker, I am always happy to lower the boom, but it is nice that it is on the headset. It is an honour to rise virtually tonight on a snowy night in Ottawa to pursue a question I originally asked on October 25. It related to the regulation and management of pesticides in this country, particularly a class of chemicals referred to as “neonicotinoid insecticides”. I have to say that the respo…
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Mr. Speaker, the Green Party agrees to apply the vote and will be voting in favour of the motion.
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Mr. Speaker, I am rising on a different point of order, but it is related to the same question about when a member stands and poses a question that you find not to be within the proper frame of government business. If someone had stood and asked a question that used an inappropriate word, that member would be given an opportunity to rephrase the question and ask it again. In this instance, the hon…
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Mr. Speaker, the Green Party agrees to apply the vote and will be voting in favour of the motion.
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Mr. Speaker, the Green Party also agrees to apply the vote and will be voting yes.
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Mr. Speaker, the hon. member for Winnipeg Centre deserves all our respect and our deep appreciation for her championing and for her work on behalf of indigenous women and girls, yes, but I would also say for marginalized people, class struggle and the recognition that we are in an unfair society at many levels. I wanted to speak my deep gratitude and to ask her this: What can those of us who are s…
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Mr. Speaker, I know that Canadians are feeling a sense of deep anxiety about our future. Going back to the question of affordability, for most people the idea is about buying a home. We also have people who are looking at living rough, living in encampments and living in tents. I can hardly believe that in a country as wealthy as Canada, we are prepared to tolerate people living rough and outdoors…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague from the Bloc Québécois. It is not easy, but I think we lack policies that show courage and leaders who clearly understand the affordability issues that Canadian families, children and youth are experiencing. This measure is not enough, but it may do some good, and that is why I am voting for it. As I said, we need to do more. We need to build a society for t…
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Mr. Speaker, fortunately for me, in the Green Party, nobody tells me how to vote. This is a tough one. I would share with my friend from Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek, that I am sure she can think of people in her community who will wonder why she did not vote for this because they would have liked to have this. I am sorry, but that is the reality. We need to think about the individuals who will hear …
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Mr. Speaker, the debate is a tough one, because we were told about the original plan that there would be a $250 cheque to certain Canadians, not to the people most in need but to people who worked in 2023, which would not include many people living on very fixed and small incomes, people on disability benefits and seniors. We were the first party to notice that it was not a fair plan. On November …
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Madam Speaker, I do know that Canadians are struggling with grocery prices. We are all experiencing it. I also know the part of the world the member is from, and I know that the scourge of the climate crisis has impacted her community. Vineyards that were once successful cannot grow grapes anymore because they have had such unpredictable freezing of grapes on the vine, as well as fires and floods.…
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Madam Speaker, the issue under debate at the moment concerns the closure motion, not the bill or the effort to reduce the GST. I would like to ask a question of my friend, the minister. I am always against closure motions, but now that the House has been brought to a standstill for nearly two months, I am going to vote in favour of this motion. However, I would like the minister to tell us whether…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise to raise with the Minister of Justice Bill C-63. We finally see some movement. It has gone from prestudy to committee. Legal groups that have looked at it and the many people who have reached me say that this four-part bill would help protect children from sexual predation online. Parts 1 and 4 have large degrees of consensus; parts 2 and 3 remain problematic. Can the minister …
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Mr. Speaker. my hon. friend, the member for Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo, spoke in error in saying that to request all opposition party leaders fulfill their obligations in applying for top secret security clearance has the implication that only one person then knows what potential foreign influence has affected current sitting members of Parliament. As someone who has top secret security clearance, …
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise to present a petition with over 700 signatures, including some from my constituency and across the country. The petitioners cite the events of this summer in the arrest of Canadian citizen, Captain Paul Watson, who was detained in Greenland and has been held under arrest by the Danish government. The concern raised by the petitioners is that since 2012, the Gov…
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Mr. Speaker, the Green Party also agrees to apply the vote and votes no.
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Madam Speaker, I have been waiting a long time to ask this. I was really disturbed by the speech from his leader, the leader of the official opposition. He decided, in the same way the Conservatives said the Canada-Ukraine trade agreement was woke, to attack the commander of the Royal Canadian Navy, Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee, who has served this country for almost as long as the leader of the off…
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Mr. Speaker, this question would be more appropriately put to the Minister of Finance, but unfortunately I did not get the question in then. I am hoping that he will feel he can speak on behalf of the government on this point. As we go into this war of nationalist populism with the U.S. government and hope to come out on the other side, as we did last time, with our economy intact, I am particular…
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Mr. Speaker, the Green Party also agrees to apply the vote and is voting in favour.
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Madam Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague from Edmonton Griesbach for pointing out that our economic planning in Canada has been to ignore Canadian jobs in order to have a rip-and-strip economy where raw resources are pulled out and shipped overseas without additional value added and without providing jobs for Canadian workers, such as with raw logs, raw bitumen and so on. I want to ask my hon. col…
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Madam Speaker, I admire the member for Windsor West enormously. Of course, his riding is ultimately on the border, on the front line of tariffs and disputes about getting goods across our border. I would be very interested to know if he has any comments on this: Donald Trump has framed this as Canada being weak, saying we do not guard our border against the floods of immigrants and fentanyl going …
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Madam Speaker, during the debate tonight, the leader of the official opposition referred to the president-elect as the president, as though the tariffs had been announced by a president with power to enact tariffs immediately. I applaud the member for Kings—Hants for saying he will be going to Washington to meet with colleagues. I think we all should be trying, and we should be asking all parties …
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Mr. Speaker, the Green Party agrees to apply the vote and will also be voting for.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I request unanimous consent, as the only woman leader in the House of Commons, for the opportunity to join in the round of ministerial speeches on this day to end violence against women and gender-based violence.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank all my colleagues in the House of Commons, because it is a great honour to rise today. The members who have spoken today are women. I want to thank our minister, as well as the member for Hastings—Lennox and Addington, the member for Shefford and the member for Winnipeg Centre. It is an honour to work in this place with members who are also feminists and who always stand up fo…
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Mr. Speaker, I totally agree with my friend, the member for New Westminster—Burnaby, that this is not a happy speech. It is a rather sad one. I worked with our colleague from Honoré‑Mercier when prime minister Stephen Harper was leading a minority government and it was possible to get things done. That was when the member for Honoré‑Mercier and I became colleagues and friends. This is a sad moment…
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Mr. Speaker, on November 15, the peace train pulled out of Vancouver station; a cross-country trip raising awareness for peace, disarmament and peacekeeping has now arrived in Ottawa. It asks parliamentarians to press the government: Will we re-establish a centre for excellence for peace and justice where the Pearson peace centre used to be? Will we increase our involvement as a country in peaceke…
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Mr. Speaker, it is a true honour to rise to present a petition that has been signed by over 10,000 people, in fact, 10,187 people. Some are constituents, but they are from far and wide and include eminent researchers in animal issues from York research centre and from Queen's University. It is a very long petition, with many signatories, including the Humane Society International and the Montreal …
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With regard to the Trans Mountain pipeline in British Columbia (BC): (a) in the event of a diluted bitumen tanker spill requiring evacuations, does Transport Canada have guidelines for a response plan that would allow the BC Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) to protect human health in BC; (b) can the federal government confirm the legal, environmental and human health liabilities that will aff…
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With regard to the Trans Mountain Corporation’s management of the Trans Mountain pipeline and related spill hazards: (a) is the Trans Mountain Corporation prepared to contain diluted bitumen that will both float and sink depending upon conditions; (b) where will beach clean-up workers come from; (c) will the workers in (b) be trained for clean-up of hazardous materials; (d) is there a plan to prot…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from Abitibi—Témiscamingue, particularly for the comments that he made about the situation involving first nations, indigenous peoples and the nuclear industry. Could he elaborate on the lack of respect for indigenous people when it comes to the nuclear industry?
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Madam Speaker, my thanks to the hon. member for Edmonton Griesbach for an extremely helpful view of the procurement processes and the need to go through those to remove the exploitation once again of indigenous peoples through fakery. I want to put a question forward really clearly. Reconciliation has to be more than land and territorial acknowledgement. This is the land we are standing on today t…
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Madam Speaker, it is an honour to rise today in Adjournment Proceedings to pursue a question I originally asked the Minister of Environment on September 16 of this year. It relates to a very controversial project in the province of Quebec. My question is about Northvolt. No advance assessment was done on this project. Now, the mayors of Saint‑Basile‑le‑Grand and McMasterville have requested an env…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my esteemed colleague, the parliamentary secretary. I would like to add a few words about the environmental impact of this project. The planned project site is located on wetlands that are really important for biodiversity. What is more, the region's forests have already been subject to clear-cut logging. Environmentalists in this region of Quebec are strongly opposed to thi…
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Madam Speaker, I want to start by thanking a member of the member's caucus, who was speaking moments ago, the hon. member for Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound, for his service on behalf of this country in Afghanistan and for his work to help rescue women from Afghanistan. We can work together across party lines in this place. My question for the parliamentary secretary might be taken from a Conservative poin…
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Madam Speaker, it is an honour to rise this afternoon. The petitioners have asked that the House assembled take action on the situation for the homeless in Canada. They note in this petition that the homeless are mistreated and discriminated against in a routine fashion. Many NGOs and governments are approaching the issue with what they term are best described as band-aid methods. The petitioners …
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Mr. Speaker, it is always good to see you in the chair. My comment to the parliamentary secretary is to stay within the focus of today's debate, even though I certainly sympathize with the unusual aspect of overruling the cautions of the Auditor General and the RCMP. I am still very troubled. It is just not the government's position to do the easiest thing and, however many boxes of documents ther…
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Mr. Speaker, on behalf of many constituents in Saanich—Gulf Islands, it is an honour to rise to present a petition dealing with the intersecting issues of the importance of old-growth forests for biodiversity, for climate action and indeed for their integral role in the traditional, cultural and spiritual wisdom of the indigenous peoples of this area, as well as looking at the threat to old-growth…
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Mr. Speaker, at the time that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was signed, there was no left-right, Republican-Democrat or Liberal-Conservative divide on doing what science required. Maggie Thatcher and Brian Mulroney were front of the pack to get the treaty, but now Donald Trump is re-entering the White House, and we know that one of his first acts was to withdraw from th…
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Madam Speaker, I have to tell the hon. parliamentary secretary that I think his commitment and his government's commitment to nuclear energy is entirely misplaced and lacking any evidence making any kind of reasonable case that nuclear energy contributes to addressing the climate crisis. I note the parliamentary secretary's point to the hon. member for Repentigny about radioisotopes. I recommend t…
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Madam Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for Repentigny and the Bloc Québécois as a whole for their work. I read this supplementary report to the report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development. I agree entirely with all of the Bloc Québécois's recommendations for better protecting our environment and human health from the dangers of nuclear waste. My only question for …
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate that we have a rare opportunity to talk about nuclear energy, although it is far too brief and without enough time for me to have a speaking slot. The government over the years, starting with the government of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, began shovelling billions toward the nuclear industry and set up Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. Then the government of Steph…
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