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Mr. Speaker, will the minister be making those measures permanent for Canadian workers, as the New Democrats have been asking for some time?
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Mr. Speaker, with the ongoing genocide in Gaza by Netanyahu, the expansion of settlements, the announcement of 22 new settlements planned for the West Bank, and Canada's obligation under the Genocide Convention, is your government planning to suspend the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement as New Democrats have asked you to do?
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Madam Speaker, I would like to congratulate my colleague on his discourse and his speech in the House, and to welcome him. I have a bit of a concern, because I think about so many people in this country who are living with a disability and who did not see their concerns echoed within the throne speech. I wonder whether the member, while he was talking to his constituents, heard from constituents w…
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Mr. Speaker, it is very nice to see you in that seat. You look very distinguished there. For me, when I read the throne speech, one of the things that shocked me the most as an Albertan, as somebody who is deeply worried about housing, health care and all of those things, was that none of that was in the throne speech. There was nothing on below-market housing, nothing for indigenous housing, noth…
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Madam Speaker, I would like to congratulate my colleague from Edmonton on his election. I am certain that this evening he, like I, will be cheering for the Edmonton Oilers as they head into the Stanley Cup finals. I have a question for the member. In regard to this particular throne speech, but in previous Parliaments as well, the workers across this country have been demanding that the government…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. There have been consultations among the parties—
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I just want to be very clear. I asked the member to tell me about where it was in the throne speech or why those things were there—
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Mr. Speaker, postal workers across the country continue to serve Canadians in every corner of our nation, through snowstorms, through uncertainty and even through a global pandemic. However, Canada Post continues to undermine this essential service, pushing Canadians to privatize services, refusing to address working conditions and stripping postal workers of their right to free and collective bar…
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Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the New Democratic Party of Canada, I want to take a moment, as the season is upon us and as we are ending 2024, to sincerely wish all of those who help us do our work a very happy holiday season. The people who keep this place running are so integral to all of the work that all of us do. Every single one of them makes sure that MPs can serve their constituents day in and…
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Mr. Speaker, as this year comes to a close, I want to take a moment and send my warmest wishes to everyone in Edmonton Strathcona and across Canada this holiday season. As we wrap up 2024, a year that was full of challenges, I want to celebrate the amazing people of Edmonton Strathcona. Our community is full of people who volunteer, who support one another, who work together to make our community …
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Madam Speaker, I will be splitting my time today with the incredible member for New Westminster—Burnaby. I am quite honoured to be able to stand and speak to this debate today. I am very grateful to the member for North Island—Powell River for bringing this forward to the floor of the House of Commons. I have been listening to today's debate very carefully. It is something that all parties clearly…
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Mr. Speaker, I would just like to point out to the member that, while he has mentioned the whip, I am not his whip. I hope he is not informing me that he will be voting for the legislation. It does not matter who is the veteran and who is the spouse. What matters is that there is a principle of equity, a principle of justice; it is the idea of doing the right thing. I certainly would not hope that…
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Mr. Speaker, as my colleague correctly says, this is a watered-down report. That is why the New Democrats put two much stronger recommendations in the supplementary report that the member for North Island—Powell River brought forward. This could and should stop immediately; there is that possibility, and the government has the ability to do that. I cannot help but note that the member, as a member…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for her question. I am sorry I cannot answer in French, but this is a difficult subject for me. I thank the member for acknowledging that we try to bring a human lens to the work we do. The government has the ability to make these changes. As I read from the report, there are two concrete things that New Democrats think need to happen, and I think th…
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Mr. Speaker, Albertans are paying millions of dollars in health care fees for their aged loved ones who are stuck in hospitals because there are no spaces in long-term care. This is one more example of how Danielle Smith is turning our universal public health care system into a U.S.-style for-cash system. We know the Conservatives would cut public health care, and in true Liberal fashion, the gove…
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Mr. Speaker, a recent report issued by Women's Shelters Canada has found that the crisis in affordable housing is impacting women's shelters across Canada and putting women's lives at risk. As the executive director of Women's Shelters Canada explained, “Since there's no affordable housing, women are staying in shelters longer...new women can't move in if women already in shelter have nowhere to g…
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP agrees to apply the result of the previous vote to this vote and will vote in favour of the motion.
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP agrees to apply the vote and will be voting in favour.
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Mr. Speaker, late on Friday, we learned that the Vista thermal coal mine expansion in the Rocky Mountains is going ahead without an impact assessment, despite the fact that the former minister promised me twice over the past four years that the government would do that. Albertans do not want coal mining in the Rocky Mountains. The current government pretends to care about our environment even whil…
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Mr. Speaker, the New Democrats agree to apply the vote and will be voting yes.
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Mr. Speaker, I also would like to take a moment to share some of my thoughts on the matter of privilege which was raised on Friday morning by the Conservative Party deputy leader, the member for Thornhill. As the Conservative deputy whip said at the time, “a personal first-hand account is very much part of the information that the Speaker must [have]” to make a decision on the matter, and I would …
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Mr. Speaker, I have a problem. My seat is a ways away from yours and when members of the House are bringing forward points of order for your consideration, I often cannot hear what those points of order are, even with my earpiece, because the Conservatives are causing such an uproar. I have to say it appears that sometimes decisions are being made by the Table based on how much uproar and rude beh…
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Madam Speaker, this is the first time I am rising today, and I just wanted to take a moment before I asked my question to acknowledge the heartbreaking event that happened in Edmonton this weekend, where Mr. Singh, a young 20-year-old student on his third day of work as a security guard, was shot dead doing the work of trying to protect people in Edmonton. It is a really devastating time for our c…
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Mr. Speaker, I move that the 20th report of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, presented on Friday, June 16, 2023, be concurred in. I have the delight of sharing my time today with the member for Port Moody—Coquitlam. I am pleased to rise today to discuss my concurrence motion on the report of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Develop…
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Madam Speaker, I would say that, because of how the Conservatives behave time and time again, many women in the House feel that this is an unsafe work environment for women. I am among them.
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Madam Speaker, frankly, that is just not true. I would say that, last week, when I had members of my caucus in the House, the members of the Conservative Party came into the House after they had been drinking. I had women, indigenous people, racialized women in this place. They Conservative members heckled. They made this space a dangerous place for my colleagues to work. They cannot—
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Madam Speaker, I was simply wanting to bring up the issue of relevance with the Conservative member's speech, but of course the Conservatives have now taken 45 minutes to do everything possible to stop talking about women's health issues.
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Mr. Speaker, I am proposing an emergency debate tonight based on the report that came out yesterday from Amnesty International, concluding that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. This finding of genocide from the world's most respected human rights organization has immediate implications for the Government of Canada and for every single member of Parliament. In short, Canada must change course…
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point or order. What we are debating today is women's access to reproductive rights. To this point I do not see the relevance in the speech of the member.
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Madam Speaker, when we were having those discussions in the foreign affairs committee, I agreed very much with my colleague that we need to look at this as an issue of health care access for women. It is an issue of making sure that women around the world have access to health care, and there is no role for faith in that conversation. Every single person, man, woman or child, should have access to…
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Madam Speaker, as I mentioned at the end of my speech, I have a teenage daughter. I have nieces. I have family members. I expect that my daughter will always have the full access to the health care she requires; we come from an awful lot of privilege. My challenge is thinking about reproductive health care, thinking about health care for women, gender-diverse people, racialized people, people of l…
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Madam Speaker, I want to talk a bit about the global context in which we find ourselves. What we are seeing globally is terrifying: ongoing violence against women, restrictions on women's access to reproductive and sexual health care, rising support for extreme-right politicians and political parties in several countries, a weakening of our democratic institutions and a growth in far-right misogyn…
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Madam Speaker, one of the deep fears I have is that there is a creeping attack on women's rights in Canada and around the world. We know that, under Stephen Harper, the Conservative Party cut all supports for reproductive health care with regard to Global Affairs Canada and international affairs. The member spoke about some of the members of Parliament who are named as being supportive of attacks …
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Madam Speaker, I was talking about when this study was in front of committee. The member for Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan obstructed the work of the committee for 18 hours, so we could not do any of the work we needed to do as the foreign affairs committee. I have to say, as well, that as a woman, being told for 18 hours what I can do with my body by a white male was extraordinarily difficult. …
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP members agree to apply the vote, and we will be voting yes.
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Mr. Speaker, the New Democrats agree to apply the vote, and we will be voting yes.
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Mr. Speaker, the New Democrats agree to apply the vote, and we will be voting yes.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to follow up on the comment from my colleague from the Green Party. Even if the Leader of the official opposition did not want to get the names from the report, which very clearly talked about the fact that the Conservative Party leadership race was compromised, would he not want to get his security clearance anyway so that Canadians do not feel that he is hiding something from…
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Madam Speaker, I think Canadians following along would rightly see that we have a Conservative Party and a Liberal Party blaming each other for being the most corrupt, which, of course, is not a very good thing for our democracy. I wonder if the member would provide some insight on changes he would like to see within our legislative system that would make Canadians feel more confident that the nex…
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Madam Speaker, on a point of order, I would like to ask the member to retract that. I do not think there is any way for him to have honestly said the NDP has caused any sort of corruption. As he mentioned, we have not formed government, so he—
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Madam Speaker, I would like to ask the minister for a little bit of clarity. I have been speaking to business owners in Edmonton Strathcona. I just spoke to a restaurant owner this morning. The minister has said, over and over again, that there are computers and that it is easy to do. This business owner was telling me that it will be very difficult for her to do that. The problem is that it is at…
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Madam Speaker, did the member just say that man-made climate change does not exist? Is that what we just heard in the House? I am speechless as an Albertan who represents a province where, for example, the beloved city of Jasper burned down because of direct impacts of climate change. I am looking around the world, where we are seeing women and girls directly impacted by climate change, where peop…
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Madam Speaker, I want to take a moment today in front of all colleagues to raise the point of order that it is your birthday. We want to wish you a very happy birthday. [Members sang Happy Birthday]
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Mr. Speaker, the New Democratic Party agrees to apply the vote, and we will be voting in favour.
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Mr. Speaker, New Democrats agree to apply the vote, and we will be voting yes.
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Mr. Speaker, once again the Liberals have failed Canadians who need help the most. People living with disabilities, students and seniors have been abandoned by the Liberals' rebate program. My constituents are rightly furious. I can tell members that the students, the seniors and the people living with disabilities in Edmonton Strathcona are not feeling the vibe right now. They are really, really …
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Mr. Speaker, the New Democratic Party agrees to apply the vote, and we will be voting yea.
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Mr. Speaker, today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the NDP stands in solidarity with women, girls and gender-diverse people facing violence in our communities and around the world. Globally, nearly one in three women have faced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime, and every day 140 women and girls are killed by family members. From Afghanistan to …
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to wish my colleague a happy Lebanese Independence Day. Of course, it is Lebanese Heritage Month as well. In my city of Edmonton, we have an incredible diasporic community of Lebanese Canadians. I want to ask the member a question that I know is very important to many of the people in his constituency. Yesterday, the International Criminal Court came forward with arrest w…
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Mr. Speaker, according to the Standing Orders, it is not appropriate for members of the House to speak falsehoods. I have been a staunch supporter of the Lebanese community in Canada and around the world. I think the member would definitely know that. I am wondering if he would like to apologize and retract that statement. I would ask that you, Mr. Speaker, insist upon it, please.
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