Jenny Kwan

C-39 Mr. Speaker, Billis a 231-page omnibus bill. It is legislation that claims to build Canada faster, but beneath the language are serious questions about who gets power, who gets certainty and who bears the risk. The government says this bill respects indigenous rights, protects workers and maintains environmental standards, but the details tell a different story. On indigenous rights, [more]

C-39 Madam Speaker, indeed the government should be tabling that important information pertaining to Bill, but not just to Bill C-39. There have been many occasions when parliamentarians and Canadians have the right to know what sorts of legal assessments have been undertaken. With section 107, when the government puts a provision in Bill C-39 that is basically to override workers' constitutional [more]

Madam Speaker, that is exactly the point that I had raised in my speech. The government is saying that it is building faster, that this is all in the national interest and that somehow magically it will protect the environment, yet it would do preemptive approvals before the work is done. As indicated, we cannot actually undo the damage. The ecosystem will not fix itself. Extinction will not [more]

Madam Speaker, what I said was that Canada does need to build infrastructure, and what I said was that we need to build infrastructure that benefits the people. I asked a question about who has the power, who benefits and who takes the risks. This bill would put all the risks on the community, on the environment and on indigenous people, and at the expense of the government saying that it wants [more]

C-39 Mr. Speaker, an environmental organization has warned that Billwould create sacrifice zones, where communities are expected to bear the pollution and environmental risks of projects deemed to be in the national interest. Will the government actually guarantee that no communities will be subject to making those sacrifices of health and environment as a result of fast-tracking projects under [more]

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, Canadians are clear that Canada is not for sale. The Liberals claim they are not selling off Canada's assets, but the doublespeak is deafening. Thesays he is not privatizing airports, yet he is inviting private investors to take over their operations, collect massive profits and make travel more expensive. In other words, it is privatization. The minister says ports [more]

Mr. Speaker, over the course of the summer, the government consulted with unions and labour organizations. Federal unions have been calling for section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to be removed, after the government has used it to order workers back to work, undermining the collective bargaining process, at least 10 times. Now the government is proposing new language around section 107 and [more]

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Thank you to the committee members for allowing me the opportunity to speak to my amendment. The bill proposes a measure intended to address new funding sources for victim services through restitution orders, but what it does not address, and what we don't have, is data to measure against to determine if the funds are sufficient to effectively meet the critical [more]

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. It seems to me that everybody was nodding, so I take that as an affirmative. I want to thank committee members for allowing me to do that. C-26 I apologize that I wasn't here when this amendment came up. I had run into the House to deal with yet another guillotine motion on Bill. I wanted to get my comments on the record in the House with respect to that. I'm [more]

Thank you, Madam Chair. I thought there was a commitment made by the Liberals in support of this, but clearly that's not the case.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the opportunity to add the NDP's perspective on this condo conversion developer bailout scheme. Fundamental to today's discussion is whether public housing dollars are being used to serve Canadians struggling with housing affordability or to protect private interests from market losses. Canadians are facing the worst housing affordability crisis in [more]

Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his advocacy for his community. It is absolutely essential that all parliamentarians stand up for all workers. Migrant workers have been abused in this country. Frankly, both the Liberals and Conservatives, when it was convenient for them, brought in temporary foreign workers so they could bring down wages, suppress wages. In fact, the UN rapporteur actually [more]

Mr. Speaker, I will give an example of the challenges that, in British Columbia, and in Vancouver more specifically, we are faced with. With the francophone community, particularly in the education sector, the federal government actually can ensure that provinces receive significant increases in funding to backstop this. Do members know what we are reduced to in our education system for children [more]

C-22 Mr. Speaker, it is quite interesting, actually. In this sitting, in these last two weeks, the government has brought down the guillotine for significant major legislation, including Bill, and we are poised to rise, probably by the end of today, I suspect. What is left on the agenda, which was not actually a priority for the government to push through, is the bill on apprenticeship to support [more]