Kristina Tesser Derksen

Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her excellent speech. As a former municipal councillor, I understand how important it is that municipal infrastructure be supported to deal with the risks we are facing of increased flooding, and how important it is for municipalities to have financial support, but it all starts with data. I am wondering if my colleague could speak about the feedback or [more]

Mr. Speaker, I thank the parliamentary secretary for his speech. I know he is very involved in advocating for indigenous communities. He is the chair of our national Liberal indigenous caucus, and I have learned a lot from him. We know that when there are pressures with respect to affordability, marginalized communities often feel them more acutely than others. I wonder if my colleague could [more]

Mr. Speaker, certainly no one, I believe, in this chamber wants to be more like Donald Trump. We are trying to strike a balance so that workers feel protected and are protected, that there is certainty in business and that employers know they are going to be held to account as well.

Mr. Speaker, my colleague and I sat together at the public accounts committee, and I learned a lot from him. The issue of transparency and accountability is coming up, and it is one of the reasons we have included the special mediator piece. As to what the special mediator would do, the report they would present would hold employers to account. What employer is going to want a report that shows [more]

C-39 Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise today after a busy summer in my riding of Milton East—Halton Hills South to speak to Bill, the building Canada strong act, and to the important balance this legislation seeks to strike between economic growth, business investment and the protection of Canadian workers. This legislation recognizes something that I believe is fundamental to Canada's economic [more]

Mr. Speaker, my colleague asked a question about section 107. I will note that 95% of collective agreements in federally regulated sectors are reached without a work stoppage. It is a very rare incident when this happens. Certainly I am in favour of transparency and accountability, as is our government, which is why this legislation is being presented. minister All of our legislation goes [more]

Mr. Speaker, there are two underlying themes here: funding growth in the economy and doubling our non-U.S. trade over the next 10 years. There are questions we have to ask ourselves: Are we supporting a growing economy? Are we putting enough effort into diversifying our trade? That is the way we are going to be successful in the future. The holistic approach that my colleague references is [more]

Madam Speaker, for me, the underlying sentiment of this bill is about unity. It is about Canadians coming together regardless of political affiliation or background and understanding that it is a pivotal time for our country to have national unity. Thornhill Prime Minister Just a few moments ago, the opposition member formentioned the lasting legacy of former prime minister Stephen Harper. [more]

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks so much for those very thorough answers to some merry-go-round questions. I want to follow up on the first line of questioning that I had for you, Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner, with respect to indigenous, Métis and first nations recruitment. You were talking a little about the DICE program. Could you expand a little more on that? I'm hoping to maybe get [more]

That's great. I appreciated the question of my colleague MP Hallan about the impacts or the additional pressures that might come along with recruitment when you are trying to meet those targets of diversity. I acknowledge it's a necessary thing that we do in Canada because it aligns with our values and the values of the RCMP, but I also acknowledge that it perhaps causes an additional amount of [more]

On that, if you wouldn't mind, include in your answer a comment on the lawful access legislation. I know it has been a point of much discussion in this context.

I mention it only because it's important for context that this information was coming out around the same time. Auditor General, paragraph 28 of your report notes that you “found that the RCMP did not use the human resources data it had to set [the] targets” for new recruitment and that human resources instead based recruitment targets on the amount of funding it had. I'd like you to expand on [more]

Thanks very much, Mr. Chair. Thanks so much for being here today, everyone. It's great to be back. Welcome to new members. leader of the official opposition I want to thank the RCMP for all the work they do. It's a challenging time to be in policing. That's one of the reasons our government invested in hiring new RCMP positions back in the 2025 budget, a budget that our opposition colleagues, [more]

Thanks for that clarification. I'll go over to the commissioner. I read the national recruitment strategy with a lot of interest. It notes that there's a need to define and target those whom the RCMP needs to hire and that the RCMP needs to hire “the right people” to “meet the needs of Contract and Federal Policing and develop a comprehensive approach to workforce planning”. This is on page 7 of [more]