Dominique O'Rourke

Mr. Speaker, teens today are awesome. Today I welcome 60 students from the Upper Grand District School Board who participate in the Beyond Borders leadership development program, an innovative grade 12 experiential learning semester that exemplifies how learning extends beyond books and classroom walls. Through partnerships with businesses, universities, charities and community organizations, [more]

Madam Speaker, I do not have the details in hand. I would say that, in many cases, these are investments in a site's potential. Anyone involved in development understands this. Although it is costly, the Conference Board of Canada, now known as Signal49, believes that the Nova Scotia spaceport could create 16,000 jobs and contribute $300 million to the gross domestic product. That is just the [more]

Madam Speaker, it is my first time speaking in the House since the tragedy at Wainwright in Alberta last Saturday, so I want to offer my condolences, certainly to the families of the soldiers who are deceased; to the families, loved ones and communities of the soldiers who are injured; and to all the personnel of the Canadian Armed Forces. We are with them wholeheartedly, today and always, and we [more]

Madam Speaker, the question of our sovereignty, namely economic sovereignty, geographic sovereignty and data sovereignty, has never been more pressing. We have an opportunity here to harness our own talent and our own geography. Part of the conversation here is about this location, its relationship to the Arctic and its orbital advantages, things that much smarter people than me know a lot more [more]

Madam Speaker, my riding of Guelph is home to an extraordinary advanced manufacturing sector and automotive sector. Across southern Ontario, thousands of highly skilled workers are helping build the vehicles of the future. Can the government please share its plan to protect and continue to support Canada's auto sector and its extraordinary auto workers?

C-16 Madam Speaker, I completely respect the opposition's role in challenging decisions and in making legislation better. I am going to point out another trend, though. It's the trend of saying that we know we need this, but let us really slow it down, as with Bill. It is great legislation, but to them it does not go far enough, so they are going to vote against security for women. Leader of the [more]

Madam Speaker, those are extraordinary accusations and allegations in the House. I am certain, with the RCMP investigation, that we will investigate and get to the bottom of it, clearly. I want to come back to the whole conversation, though, about how the land is supposedly just a little slab, how it was worth a tiny amount and how we are now paying this much for it. Anyone who knows a thing [more]

Madam Speaker, there are only so many places in the world where we can launch satellites that provide us with really important data that we use every single day. When we have to compete or go to another country and get in line to launch our satellites, that is a problem. The member opposite was speaking earlier about jobs that are fleeing to those places where they can launch satellites, because [more]

Madam Speaker, the question is a good one and worthy of scrutiny, but I will say again that anyone involved in land speculation can have land that is basically worthless for generations, but when the zoning and the permissions change on that property, the value goes up exponentially. This is basic. This is what is happening. Because of the economic potential of this location at this time, there [more]

Finally, is it your recommendation...? I want to be sure I've understood you correctly. The Senate bill on energy efficiency defines essential electronics. Is it your recommendation that this bill should also adopt the same definition so that they're concordant?

Thank you. I will cede my 10 seconds.

Would you say household or office appliances and electronics can be a totally different beast from a vehicle that's on our roads that has safety standards, emissions standards, etc., fully recognizing that the right to repair our vehicles is an important right and this might not be the appropriate place to do that? Would you agree with that?

Guelph is an advanced manufacturing hub—you're welcome to visit any time. How can we ensure that future durability and repairability standards provide meaningful benefits for Canadian consumers while remaining practical for manufacturers and aligned with international standards, which is an issue that was raised earlier?

Finally, there's been some conversation around this table so far today about the legislation and how it would impose something upon the provinces. I'm wondering if you could explain how having a framework actually empowers consumers and responds to this demand that we are hearing from people about how they want to be able to fix their own things.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm the member of Parliament for Guelph. We have had the Guelph Tool Library for 10 years. It's a very popular repair café that's really interested in the circular economy and in reducing, reusing and repairing, rather than recycling. It's fully cognizant of the impacts on landfills. Thank you for being here. We think this bill is really important in terms of setting that [more]

Thank you, Chair. My questions are for Mr. Reid and Mr. Gallant. Mr. Reid, thank you so much for mapping out that we're conflating all that's AI into the same conversation, and I think we're having trouble finding our way out. You're talking about how large language models are different from an application with a closed dataset, which we're seeing applied in a number of places, and how then, [more]