Private Members' Business
Madam Speaker, I think it is very fitting that I have the opportunity to speak to my private member's bill, Bill C-205, on the week that we celebrated Canada's Agriculture Day. It means a lot when we look at the bills that have come forward. I want to congratulate my colleague from Northumberland—Peterborough South for the passing at second reading of his private member's bill, Bill C-206, which w…
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Madam Speaker, I would like a recorded vote.
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Madam Speaker, it is incredible that the Liberals are defending Dominic Barton and refusing to answer this question. Is it because McKinsey pleaded guilty to criminal charges for its role in the opioid crisis? That crisis has claimed the lives of more than 16,000 Canadians. Is it because the provinces have now filed civil suits against the opioid companies that McKinsey advised? Again, they should…
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Madam Speaker, yesterday, McKinsey & Company agreed to pay nearly $600 million U.S. for its role in fuelling the opioid crisis in the United States. For almost a decade that firm was led by Dominic Barton, now the Prime Minister's hand-picked ambassador to China. It was a period in which McKinsey was advising opioid companies to pay rebates for drug overdoses just to boost the sales of OxyContin. …
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Mr. Speaker, Dominic Barton was in charge of McKinsey consulting firm, which has been accused of unethical business dealings in China and stoking the opioid crisis. McKinsey is now settling dozens of lawsuits over advice it gave opioid makers on ways to boost sales of OxyContin, yet the Prime Minister saw fit to appoint Mr. Barton as ambassador to China despite the unprecedented opioid crisis in o…
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Mr. Speaker, how can the Prime Minister possibly defend Mr. Barton? Over the last four years, more than 16,000 Canadians have died from opioid overdoses. During that time, Dominic Barton was a global partner at McKinsey, a company that pleaded guilty to criminal charges, including bribing doctors and paying rebates for drug overdoses just to boost the sales of OxyContin. Again, before the Prime Mi…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals cannot avoid this question. McKinsey, the company that Mr. Barton worked for, is in the process of settling lawsuits over advice it gave to drug companies to aggressively bolster OxyContin sales. In fact, the OxyContin manufacturer has pleaded guilty to criminal charges, including bribing doctors, deliberately contributing to the opioid epidemic. Again, was the Prime Mini…
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Mr. Speaker, over the last four years, more than 16,000 Canadians have died from opioid overdoses. During that time, Dominic Barton, the Liberals' hand-picked ambassador to China, was turbocharging OxyContin sales, even providing rebates for drug overdoses. Dominic Barton was a managing partner with McKinsey, which is accused of shady deals with China, destroying evidence and stoking the opioid cr…
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate working with my colleague on the health committee. I had a conversation with the CEO of Solstar Pharma this afternoon and previously. The company is now going through its trials and its testing and getting close to completing its clinical testing in San Diego right now. It has a partnership with Western University and the Ontario government. The Quebec government is now…
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Madam Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise to speak in this emergency debate to try to address some of the issues that I know many of my constituents are concerned about. The goal of what we are trying to achieve with this debate on vaccines, vaccine distribution and procurement, is answer some questions that many Canadians have. I know I am not the only member of Parliament here who has had numerous…
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Mr. Speaker, the cancellation of Keystone XL is another blow to Alberta’s energy workers and Canada’s economy, but is also a huge step backward in our fight to protect the environment. Keystone XL checked all the boxes: renewable energy to power the pipeline, check; emissions neutral, check; agreements with first nations equity partners, check. TC Energy did everything it was asked to do, and it s…
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Madam Speaker, unfortunately, when we have this system we do not get to see each other all that often, and that is too bad because I am sure we could be friends down the road. I agree with the member. This is incredibly frustrating, and I cannot even articulate how angry I was watching Mr. Sorenson on the news this afternoon talking about Providence Therapeutics and what it could have been doing i…
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Madam Speaker, what my colleague is talking about is at the root of a larger issue that we need to discuss. When we are back on our feet a little bit, I would like to see a royal commission investigate the COVID-19 pandemic: what worked, what did not work, whether there were voids in the system and vaccine manufacturing distribution. All of those things should be part of that. I do not want to mak…
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Mr. Speaker, the hon. member talked about the importance of fighting for jobs, and I want to answer that part of her question first. With Keystone specifically, TC Energy had promised that every single one of the jobs in the United States would be unionized labour, so the NDP should be supporting these types of things. If she indeed wants to fight for jobs, why is the NDP not supporting something …
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Mr. Speaker, my point is about the misinformation the member is putting out there. We have reduced the carbon footprint to produce a barrel of oil by 30%. The technology and innovation in Canada is second to none. When it comes to reducing emissions and addressing climate change, Canada is not the problem. Canadian energy is not the problem. Canadian energy is a vital part of the solution, and it …
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Mr. Speaker, the member should be ashamed of himself and his party for cheering the loss of 14,000 jobs in this country. I do not recall him ever standing up and cheering when we had an economic downturn and a loss of jobs in the auto sector or the aeronautics sector. Would he be standing up and cheering if we lost tens of thousands of jobs in the tourism sector in his riding? All of us should be—
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Mr. Speaker, this is a very difficult day. It is a dark day, not only for Albertans, but also, I hope, for members of Parliament across this country. Many of my colleagues have said today that when the information came out last Tuesday about the impending cancellation of Keystone XL, even though there had been a lot of hints that this would happen, it brought reality home. I had a call on Friday f…
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With regard to Health Canada’s proposed front-of-package and food labelling modernization regulations, and other mandatory labelling changes: (a) what are the details of all proposed or ongoing changes to nutrition and ingredient labelling and all compliance timelines; and (b) when will Health Canada announce the alignment of compliance timelines for each change for labeling in the food and bevera…
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