Karim Bardeesy

Minister of Industry Madam Speaker, we have been very clear that this is a betrayal of the workers and a betrayal of the commitments that were made when that company was acquired. We have been very clear. Thehas written a letter insisting that within five business days, the company come back with a plan to make sure all unionized workers, as promised, have jobs in Canada. That deadline is coming [more]

Madam Speaker, in Taiaiako'n—Parkdale—High Park in west Toronto, we are beneficiaries of having clean, abundant and affordable drinking water provided through the City of Toronto and municipal public services, yet in my riding, there are many people who are concerned about the situation with first nations drinking water. I think they will receive this bill with a lot of jubilation. Could the [more]

Madam Speaker, I appreciated my colleague's speech and especially the fact that he focused on homelessness, which he also did yesterday during question period. In my riding of Taiaiako'n—Parkdale—High Park, we are building housing with health support services. We are also seeing rents continue to come down. Can my colleague describe the situation in Joliette—Manawan with respect to rents and the [more]

Mr. Speaker, I would refer back to the provisions included on either end of the approvals process, which would provide a lot of protections, I believe, for Canadians.

Mr. Speaker, I have a lot of respect for my colleague opposite and her history of engagement on these files, including her engagement on the proposed Harper-era changes that she was involved in and that, indeed, I was involved in when I was a journalist covering that government. I would submit that this is very different, that we have a coordination of approvals. We have eminent protections on [more]

Mr. Speaker, I appreciated my colleague's speech and intervention. I want to draw her attention to a part of the bill that I think she is also aware of, which is the inclusion of offshore wind and electricity transmission projects as the kinds of projects that might benefit from some of the processes that are outlined in the bill. I know she has a lot of concern with respect to the processes [more]

Mr. Speaker, at the end of my colleague's speech, she made a reference to Mariana Mazzucato's work around a state that has the capacity to do things. I wonder if she could add a reflection about why it is important to have a state, the officers of government and the departments of government, with the ability to move in a coordinated fashion to achieve big things, as Mazzucato writes.

Etobicoke Centre Mr. Speaker, it is a great pleasure to speak to this bill, which comes to us from the other place. I want to give thanks in particular for the hard work of the member for, who has been championing the cause of Ukraine, of Ukrainian Canadians and of Ukrainians in Canada since his election here and since before then, and for his hard work to get the bill to this point in [more]

Madam Speaker, I appreciate my colleague's speech and his reflections, in particular, on the different capacities that organizations, large versus small, may have in participating in some of the review processes. I wonder if he could elaborate on how the bill would help level the playing field a bit.

Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to speak to this very important bill today. I want to start with the context of the legislation and the context that became quite apparent during the election campaign. I want to start with that because it is important to establish the “why” of this piece of legislation and what is guiding the government's agenda. I am going to start with a quote from our campaign [more]

Mr. Speaker, I think there are two aspects. There is the type of project that companies can participate in, but there is also the aspect of participating in the environmental economy and the economy as a whole by assessing the impacts. There are companies that can participate that way.

Mr. Speaker, if I understand correctly and we are talking about clause 53, it includes the following language: “the Minister is not permitted to amend the decision statement to change the decision included in it.” Again, I believe that some of the allegations being made about what this legislation could do is not supported by the facts in front of us.

Thank you. I thank my fellow members for their comments, and I understand the spirit behind them. In the bill, I think the most important thing is to trigger the process, something that hasn't been undertaken in nearly two decades. The bill forces the department to develop the spectrum policy and report on it. We feel it is very important to trigger the process. I appreciate the point about [more]

Mr. Speaker, I am very engaged in this debate and my colleague's speech. We share adjoining ridings. Therefore, some of the concerns and questions that my colleague is hearing are also being asked in Taiaiako'n—Parkdale—High Park. I want to ask her, given her experience in this Parliament, to speak about the continuity pieces around the environmental regulations here. Also, would she not agree [more]

The estimates also reflect some increased investments in research more broadly through the three main granting councils and also through defence research. I'm wondering if you could share the intended impact of those investments, not just for the researchers themselves but for the potential downstream beneficiaries in the economy.

Presumably, that also includes the kinds of investments that the government might be making in research and IP protection, the kinds of things that can result not only in more exportability but also in more value capture in Canada. That would be part of the overall thinking around the policy.