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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, 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 also agrees to apply the vote and will be voting yes.
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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 agrees to apply the vote and will be voting in favour of the motion.
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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, 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. 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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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 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, 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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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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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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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 is voting in favour.
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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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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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Mr. Speaker, the Green Party agrees to apply the vote and will also be voting for.
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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, 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, 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 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 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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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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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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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, 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 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 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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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, 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, to be brief, the petitioners in my constituency are very concerned about the inequality in pay for work of equal value, which has been ongoing for decades. In this country, women still receive 21¢ less than men for every dollar, on average, for doing basically the same work. In order to ensure that women and children are not living in poverty, we must have pay equity. The petitioners …
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Mr. Speaker, I am puzzled by the last comment from the member of Parliament for Waterloo. Deepak Obhrai, who was a wonderful Conservative member of Parliament, whom we miss, used to host Diwali on the Hill. What happened—
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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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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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Mr. Speaker, I am picking up on a question that I asked on World Environment Day, June 5 every year. On June 5, 2024, I asked the government and the Prime Minister how they could reconcile claiming to want to protect the endangered southern resident killer whale while also expanding the activities that we know put the survival of that species at risk. The activities I specifically mentioned were t…
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Mr. Speaker, thanks to the hon. parliamentary secretary for the reference to the late and extraordinary Judge Murray Sinclair, who was the sponsor in the Senate of the bill I took through the House of Commons to ban the keeping of whales in captivity. He will be deeply missed. In the 45 seconds I have left, let me just say to the parliamentary secretary that the Southern Gulf Islands Whale Sightin…
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Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise virtually today because I am hovering near where my new granddaughter was just born. That is not part of the petition. I am very pleased to present a petition that does relate to motherhood. It is from an unusual group of petitioners; they are all physicians who are also mothers. The petitioners, as physicians and as mothers, ask the House to pay attention to t…
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Mr. Speaker, we have an unspeakable tragedy of a Canadian mother of six, known only as F.J., whose six children were repatriated to Canada, but the government refused to allow their mother to travel with them. She is now dead in a Turkish prison. I ask the hon. government members here, the Minister of Public Safety and the minister for international affairs, if will they follow the requirements of…
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Madam Speaker, I ask for unanimous consent to add my statement on behalf of the Green Party of Canada. I think we are united in this place, and I echo the words of all my colleagues. I agree with what members of all parties have said this morning. We are all on the same page. We will remember. We will never forget—
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Madam Speaker, I am grateful to my colleagues for granting unanimous consent for me to speak on the subject of Remembrance Day and Veterans' Week. I want to speak briefly. I certainly echo the words of all my colleagues, particularly the very detailed enumeration of the number of wrongs done to our veterans. I offer a huge thanks to all past members of the Canadian Armed Forces, as well as those c…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today under Standing Order 31 to praise and thank the extraordinary volunteer efforts of conservation organizations within Saanich—Gulf Islands, and in particular, the Peninsula Streams Society and the Saanich Inlet Protection Society. I want to speak particularly to the testimony given on behalf of Friends of Shoal Harbour by Bob Peart just this last Monday, October 28, to our…
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Madam Speaker, I am interested in raising a point because there is a certain irony here. I should put it on the record that the Green Party supports the CBC and wants to see commercial-free news and a public affairs function for CBC Television. We would like to see that for Radio-Canada as well, for programs broadcast on radio and television. I am puzzled by the Conservative stance, which appears …
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Madam Speaker, if I could have, I would have supported the hon. member's subamendment if it had been in the proper form. Restoring what we used to call “the suppertime news” to local communities is an essential part of a healthy democracy, as is a news service that can be provided in a way that gives Canadians a shared context. That helps us minimize the impact of disinformation from social media.…
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