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Mr. Chair, there is $2.4 billion in procurement, so shrinking oil and gas development will hurt economic reconciliation. Does the minister not see that this is a step backwards?
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Mr. Chair, the minister claimed that there is national unity and consensus, but the day after the meeting, B.C. Premier David Eby said no to a pipeline, removing consensus. Is this a veto?
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Mr. Chair, premiers Smith, Moe and Kinew have all said yes to a pipeline to Churchill. Does this mean a yes?
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Mr. Chair, does the minister agree that pipelines are a safe way of transporting oil, yes or no?
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Mr. Chair, has the minister ever toured the oil sands?
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Mr. Chair, does the minister believe that economic reconciliation is important?
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Mr. Chair, would the minister still oppose this project today?
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With regard to deportation or removal orders for individuals: (a) how many people are currently subject to a deportation or removal order, in total, and broken down by province or territory and by type of removal status or classification (monitoring, wanted, stay, working inventory); and (b) what is the breakdown of (a) by country to which the individual is being deported?
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Again, Mr. Speaker, we are here to discuss the member for Edmonton Centre and a concurrence motion that was moved by the INAN committee with respect to him. I know that the member for Kingston and the Islands would like to talk about anything else, as he always does, but it is not relevant to the debate at hand.
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Mr. Speaker, it was far more than 10 seconds. I am trying to give the member some time, but he refuses to bring his speech back to the debate at hand.
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Mr. Speaker, it is shocking to me how much of a scandal this is and how much money we are talking about. I thought it was very collegial of my colleague to have offered the government to give up his time if it simply released the documents. When I talk to people in Fort McMurray—Cold Lake, they are astounded by the fact that the government is so afraid of what these documents contain that it refus…
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Mr. Speaker, while I understand and appreciate that there is a decent amount of latitude given to us here in the chamber, what the member is talking about is not the issue at hand, about the member for Edmonton Centre and his egregious claims of indigenous identity to try to get government contracts. Therefore I believe this is a call on relevance.
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Madam Speaker, I have a simple question for the minister. Why is there a small GST break on Christmas trees, but not on menorahs?
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Madam Speaker, not only did the member mention the presence or absence of a member, but he used very unparliamentary language. I would ask for him to retract it and apologize.
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Mr. Speaker, we need a Canada first plan to fix what the Prime Minister broke on the addiction crisis and illegal drugs. About 47,000 Canadians have died under the Prime Minister's watch. That is more than we lost in the Second World War. We need to fully reverse the liberalization of drugs, which is killing our people and threatening our borders. We need to secure our borders against the importat…
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Mr. Speaker, that is not a plan. We need a Canada first plan to fix what the Prime Minister broke on the addiction crisis and illegal drugs. There has been a 200% annual increase in drug deaths under his watch. We need to fully reverse his liberalization of drugs. We need to ban the drugs, prosecute every trafficker, and secure our borders against drugs and chemical precursors that are used to mak…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of NDP-Liberals, the cost of living crisis is having a major impact on family grocery budgets and yet the Liberals' answer is to continue hiking the carbon tax, making food even more expensive. Under NDP-Liberals, we are seeing the largest annual increase in child poverty on record. One in four parents are cutting back their food to feed their kids, and one in five ch…
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Madam Speaker, it was a really interesting time when I first started paying attention to politics. It was right around the time of the Liberal sponsorship scandal, when there was cash from Liberal coffers being put into envelopes. The Liberals were literally stuffing envelopes with cash. There was so much money and that actually brought down Paul Martin's government. If the parliamentary secretary…
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Madam Speaker, this weekend, I went home as I often do. I actually go home every weekend. When I travel, on Friday mornings, I leave Ottawa at five o'clock in the morning, so it is a pretty early flight. I often am wearing a hoodie and I am rather incognito. People do not often realize I am a member of Parliament when I get on. When I got on my final flight from Calgary to Fort McMurray, there was…
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Madam Speaker, it is really interesting to be here debating this privilege motion, which first came to the House on September 26. Nearly two months ago, we first started having this conversation when the Speaker ruled on a matter of privilege and found that the privileges of the House had, in fact, been breached. There was a point in time, many years ago, when I was studying political science as a…
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Madam Speaker, there might be a difference between whether you want to share your opinion and whether you are able to share your opinion. To my colleague from Toronto—St. Paul's, it is so spectacular to have a Conservative in that seat within the GTA, representing those views. I have been so fortunate in the couple of months we have been able to work together to learn from the member and to learn …
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Madam Speaker, this is one of the interesting pieces. Maybe in some parts of the country people can wait until December 14 to buy their children winter boots or a winter jacket. That is not the case in most parts of rural Canada. In fact I just pulled up the weather app. It is -13°C in Fort McMurray. There is full snow cover. I cannot wait in order to save 5% on a snowsuit, wait another month befo…
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Madam Speaker, I welcome my hon. colleague back to this chamber as another young mom in this place. It is so wonderful to see people being able to find that space of both having a family and doing this job, and doing it so well. One of the pieces that the member alluded to in her speech was with regard to first nations communities that are sick and tired of the lack of support they are receiving a…
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With regard to the government's approach to oil sands mining effluent and the Crown-Indigenous Working Group (CIWG) for the Potential Oil Sands Mining Effluent Regulations: (a) what is the government's current plan for dealing with effluent, including the (i) scope of the plan, (ii) key deliverables, (iii) stakeholder engagement process, (iv) key dates in the plan, (v) current status of work items…
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to signal that I am going to be sharing my time with the member for, and my colleague from, Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo. As I rise today to speak to the sad topic of this emergency debate, I would like to recognize the six indigenous individuals who unfortunately lost their lives. Specifically, Steven “Iggy” Dedam, Danny Knife, Hoss Lightning-Saddleback, Jack Piche, Tammy B…
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That is in my riding.
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Mr. Speaker, to follow up on what my hon. colleague said, it is very clear what MMIWG call for justice 5.4 says. It does not say to maybe at some point look at indigenous policing. It says, “immediately and dramatically transform Indigenous policing”. I am wondering whether, in her opinion, she thinks that in the nine years the Liberal government has been in power it has done enough to do that.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for sharing some of the history of the land he represents, as well as the history of the name of his riding. It was actually quite interesting. One of the things I have found very shocking and frustrating, as I have listened to countless speeches from the Liberal government on this, is the way that the government brags about all the money that it has commi…
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague stressed the need for action, and we are aligned on this. There are countless reports and studies and calls for justice and calls to action. I am going to cite call for justice 5.4 from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. It is very clear in its language. It states: ...to immediately and dramatically transform Indigenous policing fro…
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With regard to applications received by the government to run supervised consumption sites, since 2015 and broken down by province or territory: (a) what are the addresses and services offered or potentially offered for each application received; and (b) for each application in (a), broken down by address or site, is the status of the application (i) received but a decision has not yet been made, …
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With regard to requests received by Health Canada related to decriminalization from provinces, municipalities or Indigenous communities, since January 1, 2016: what are the details of all such requests, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) name and title of the person who made the request, (iii) entity represented by the person making the request, (iv) summary of the request, (v) response by He…
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With regard to the government's safe supply, safer supply and prescribed alternatives programs, broken down by year for the last two years: (a) which companies were allowed to import drugs into Canada that were to be used under the programs, broken down by drug that they were allowed to import; (b) how much of each drug was each company (i) allowed to import, (ii) importing, into Canada; and (c) w…
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Madam Speaker, the member is part of a government that promised in its 2015 electoral campaign to end all drinking water advisories by 2020. Here we are in 2024, and there are still countless long-term drinking water advisories. Why has the government been so slow to act on something so critical as water?
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Madam Speaker, it was in the 2015 election that the Liberal Prime Minister made a promise that he was going to end drinking water advisories in indigenous communities by March 2021. He was very specific. He gave a date and a timeline. Then, in 2020, as the government was approaching that self-imposed deadline, the former minister of indigenous services said that “by spring 2021, the number of [com…
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Mr. Speaker, the minister has the power to say no to this. Will she, yes or no?
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Mr. Speaker, protocols have been put in place to allow so-called safe supply of fentanyl to children under 18 without parental consent or knowledge. Will the minister clearly stand against fentanyl ever being given recreationally to children, yes or no?
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Mr. Speaker, will you stand up against recreational fentanyl to children, yes or no?
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Mr. Speaker, has decriminalization been successful in British Columbia?
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Mr. Speaker, will the minister stand up against recreational fentanyl to youth, yes or no?
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Mr. Speaker, then why did the minister grant British Columbia's request to effectively ban public drug use in most places?
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Mr. Speaker, why did it take the minister 11 days to respond to their request?
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Mr. Speaker, how is the minister measuring success in B.C.'s decriminalization?
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Mr. Speaker, why not just end it altogether?
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Mr. Speaker, what is the leading cause of death in British Columbia for those between 10 and 59?
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Mr. Speaker, leading addiction physicians from across Canada have written several letters demanding the minister make all safe supply programs witnessed and recovery-focused, or shut them down. Will the minister follow the advice from these experts?
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Mr. Speaker, six die every day in British Columbia. What is the leading cause of death of British Columbian youth aged 10 to 18?
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to start out by saying that I will be sharing my time with the member for Cumberland—Colchester and the member for South Surrey—White Rock. I would like to direct all my questions to the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions. How many people die due to overdose in British Columbia every day, on average?
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Mr. Speaker, how much diversion is acceptable to the minister?
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Mr. Speaker, what is the percentage increase in overdose deaths in Canada after nine years?
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