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Mr. Speaker, the NDP agrees to apply the vote and will be voting no.
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP agrees to apply the vote, and we will be voting no.
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP agrees to apply the vote, and we will be voting no.
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP agrees to apply the vote, and we will be voting no.
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP members have agreed to apply the vote. Because it is the last vote, I will just very quickly say, “Go Oilers”.
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Mr. Speaker, it is the birthday of the member for Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, so I would like to say that, in his honour, we accept to apply the vote and we will be voting no.
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP agrees to apply the vote, and we will be voting no.
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Mr. Speaker, the New Democratic Party of Canada will agree to apply the vote, and we will be voting no.
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Mr. Speaker, the New Democratic Party agrees to apply the vote, and we will be voting no.
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP agrees to apply the vote, and we will be voting no.
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP agrees to apply the vote, and we will be voting no.
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The New Democratic Party of Canada agrees to apply the vote and will be voting no.
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP agrees to apply the vote and will be voting no.
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Mr. Speaker, the New Democratic Party of Canada agrees to apply the vote, and we will be voting no.
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP agrees to apply the vote, and we will be voting no.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to seek unanimous consent for the following motion: That the House: (a) condemn the death sentence of Iranian musician and vocal critic of the Iranian regime, Toomaj Salehi; (b) urge the Government of Canada to impose targeted sanctions on the thirty-one judges, prosecutors, and investigators of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Courts included on the "TOOMAJ" list, who are re…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. There have been discussions among the parties and, if you seek it, I believe you will find unanimous consent for the following motion—
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Mr. Speaker, I am rising on a question of privilege. I have a concern. As you were giving us the ruling today, we noticed on Twitter that the ruling was already published. The idea that members of this House should get that ruling before anyone else is quite clear, and the fact that Twitter got the ruling before the member for Winnipeg Centre or any of the members of this House is inappropriate.
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Mr. Speaker, it has been three years since Kabul fell, and for Afghans life gets worse every day. Canadians want to help Afghans living under the horrific Taliban rule, but the Canadian government is getting in the way. The flawed bill that the Liberals passed a year ago, Bill C-41, has not been implemented. There has been no guidance and no funding for any Canadian organization, nothing. As Afgha…
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Madam Speaker, we have heard from marginalized groups, particularly indigenous women, who are disproportionately impacted by our justice system and who are disproportionately present in our jails. They have been begging for there to be changes to the legislation, yet the Conservatives filibustered for months, trying to stop the actual changes that indigenous women have been asking for. How does th…
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Madam Speaker, in Edmonton, it is becoming increasingly hard to find an affordable place to live. Rents are up 20% since last year and there simply is not enough affordable housing. Conservatives think building luxury condos will fix the problem, which is another example of them wanting to give money to their rich friends. Canadian families need homes, and the Liberals are not acting with the urge…
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Madam Speaker, I have two petitions that I will be sharing today. The first petition is signed by over 1,000 Canadians. It is in response to Russia's genocide against the Ukrainian people. These citizens are calling on the Government of Canada to put the Russian Federation on the list of foreign supporters of terrorism.
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My second petition is also with regard to the illegal invasion of Ukraine and to the people who have come from Ukraine to Canada. This petition is signed by hundreds of Canadians. The petition speaks about the thousands of Ukrainians who have come to Canada to escape the war in Ukraine. It calls on Canada to allow Ukrainians working in apprenticeship programs to qualify for permanent residency.
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Mr. Speaker, the New Democratic Party will agree to apply the votes, and we will be voting yes.
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Mr. Speaker, one of the things that I hear when I knock on the doors of the good people of Edmonton Strathcona, Edmonton Centre and across Alberta is that people are deeply worried that our health care system is becoming privatized by Conservative premiers such as Danielle Smith. We know that the Conservatives have already said that they would privatize. In fact, I believe the health critic has sa…
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Mr. Speaker, unfortunately there are two members from Alberta, the member for Foothills and the member for Banff—Airdrie, whose photos are not showing, so we will not be able to count their votes.
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Madam Speaker, one thing my colleague talked about was the health transfer to the provinces. Health care is something I am hearing about from my constituents more than anything else, and they are worried about its privatization. The original plan under the Canada Health Act was that the federal government would pay 50% and the provinces would pay 50%. It has been a long time since that has been th…
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I do not enjoy doing this, but really the guardrail of using the app is that we can identify the members who have voted or who have not. We do not have photos, I believe, and I will ask the clerks to check, for the member for Foothills and the member for Banff—Airdrie. If their photos do not come up, we cannot guarantee that it is they who voted, and I woul…
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Madam Speaker, please excuse my French, but I am practising. I like what my colleague said about transparency. I too think the government needs to be more open. What steps does he think Parliament should take to achieve that?
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague talked about how Canadians cannot trust the Liberals, and I will not argue with that of course, but I am wondering how he expects Canadians to trust the Conservatives. The member ran on a price on pollution in the last election. He talks about affordability but voted against dental care, pharmacare and a children's school lunch program. He is the same member who is in a p…
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Madam Speaker, my colleague talks about the costs to the Canadian economy, but surely he knows that research has shown that there could be up to a $38-trillion cost to the global economy from climate change. The cost of climate change is wildly larger, and the impact on farmers, families and individuals in our country is going to be very severe. What is the Conservative plan on dealing with the ex…
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Madam Speaker, one of the things we have found most disappointing in the recent budget has been the failure to support people living with disabilities. The amount that has been allocated is about six dollars a day. It will not scratch the surface. We know that every community and every country must be judged by how we treat those who are most vulnerable within our community. The failure to support…
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Mr. Speaker, I would just like to take this opportunity to check that we actually have quorum to continue this debate.
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Mr. Speaker, I have to say that I agree with my colleague from the Bloc, that the government has shown itself to be very untransparent and very difficult to get information from, on a number of different fronts. In the House, we are discussing a lot of things around climate change and climate issues. We have heard the Liberal government claim that it is doing things on climate change, and then it …
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Mr. Speaker, today the UN released its annual report on children in armed conflict. The report verifies that there are more cases of war crimes against children in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel than anywhere else in the world. It is an appalling and alarming confirmation of the grave violations taking place. Children are dying and the Liberals are failing them. When, on what date, will the govern…
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Mr. Speaker, the New Democratic Party also agrees, and we will be voting yes.
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Madam Speaker, I am going to pile on a bit like the member from the Liberal Party and the member from the Bloc have done. The member started by talking about the cost of food. Trevor Tombe from the University of Calgary was somebody we witnessed. I have read articles in the National Post, which I think we can all agree is hardly a left-wing socialist rag, that have said that actually the carbon ta…
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Mr. Speaker, the New Democratic Party of Canada agrees, and we will be voting yea.
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Mr. Speaker, the New Democratic Party of Canada members agree to apply the vote, and we will be voting yes.
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP agrees, and we will be voting yes.
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP agrees to apply the vote, and we will be voting yes.
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Madam Speaker, the second petition I am tabling today has over 17,000 signatures, and it is from Canadian citizens who are very concerned about the war crimes and the crimes against humanity since October 2023. The people who have signed this petition are asking for sanctions on the Government of Israel and for the return of all hostages. They note that there is generational trauma being caused by…
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Madam Speaker, I have three petitions to present today. The first petition is from Canadians who are very concerned with the case of Hassan Diab, who spent three years mostly in solitary confinement in France without charge. The petitioners are calling on the Government of Canada to formally declare that Canada will neither accept nor agree to any second request from the French government for Hass…
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP agrees to apply the vote, and we will be voting yes.
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Mr. Speaker, the arts inspire us, enrich our lives and add so much to our community. We need to support them, but the Liberal government has been underfunding Edmonton's arts scene for years, and local artists and our community are struggling. Cities with loads of Liberal MPs are getting as much as four times what Edmonton gets per capita. The partisan politics are hurting Edmonton's creative scen…
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Mr. Speaker, tomorrow, the Edmonton Oilers will play in game one of the Stanley Cup finals. With just four more wins, the Oilers will bring the cup back to Canada. I grew up in Edmonton in the 1980s, and when my dad took me to a game, it was magic: Messier, Fuhr, Coffey, Anderson, Lowe and, of course, Wayne Gretzky. These guys were a beauty to watch. Now, we have a new dynasty beginning. We have H…
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Madam Speaker, I think the member was not listening when I said what we have in Canada has not been updated since 2002. That means that, for 22 years, we have not looked at this judicial process. It is not working. It is not working for marginalized people, particularly indigenous women in this country. It needs to be updated. It needs to be made more relevant so that justice is not denied to thos…
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Madam Speaker, I apologize to my friend. I do not speak French very well, so it is hard for me to express myself on this issue. I will therefore speak in English. I am sorry. The importance of the French language is vital. The riding of Edmonton Strathcona, which I am so happy to represent, has the French Quarter in it. In fact, 20% of our population identify as francophone in our communities. Whe…
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Mr. Speaker, Conservative members on the public safety committee submitted 33 amendments for Bill C-20, but they withdrew over 75% of them. Meanwhile, they dragged out the Bill C-20 meetings repeatedly by filibustering other parties' amendments and moving motions that were completely unrelated to Bill C-20. How does the member account for that?
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Madam Speaker, I rise this evening to speak in support of Bill C-40, an act to amend the Criminal Code. This miscarriage of justice bill represents a critical step in our ongoing efforts to reform the criminal justice system and to address the systemic inequities that have long plagued it, particularly for indigenous people, racialized communities and marginalized Canadians. For the better part of…
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