Sima Acan
- Born
- 1979 — Ankara, Turkey
- Family
- Lives in Oakville with her husband and two children.
- Education
- Graduated in 2003 from Işık University
- Career
- President of the Federation of Canadian Turkish Associations; owns a robotics company in Oakville, Ontario.
- Political Experience
- Elected Member of Parliament for Oakville West in the 2025 Canadian federal election.
- Property
- Owns a robotics company in Oakville, Ontario.
- Notable
- First Canadian of Turkish descent elected to the House of Commons.
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C-35 Mr. Hamilton, the current framework relies on a risk-based approach using risk assessment and random selection to identify the shipments of goods that may have been produced by forced labour. With the introduction of Bill, the agency would work from a targeted list of higher-risk products, with the onus on the importer to prove their goods are free of forced labour. You explained very well
Thank you very much.
Madam Speaker, my colleague mentioned that we have not consulted with the Privacy Commissioner. I want to mention that this is the wrong information, and I believe that my colleague was misinformed before her speech. The Privacy Commissioner said at the committee, “I would not say that we were not consulted in this instance. We made a number of recommendations. A number of them were taken and
Oshawa Madam Speaker, I enjoy working with my colleague at committee, as well as with my colleague from, who also expressed concern about not having enough time to ask questions at committee. With respect, every member of the committee has the same time allocated. I have difficulty understanding why, while most of the other members of the committee could ask questions, the member was not able
Can we have a recorded vote, please? See Minutes of Proceedings (Amendment agreed to: yeas 11; nays 0 [])
As committee members—not only the Liberals but Conservatives and the Bloc—we had lots of hours on this committee and we did ask all these questions. Can we just be relevant? We are doing clause-by-clause. We are not doing a study with a question period here. We are doing clause-by-clause. We have to stick to the clauses. We have to study the relevance of the clauses and ask questions that are
I have a point of order, Mr. Chair.
It's the same point of order, Mr. Chair. Again, we are studying clause-by-clause. We did hours of study in this committee for this bill. I suggest that we be more productive and, instead of spending 11 hours like last week filibustering, focus on the clause and ask questions relevant to the clause so that we can pass it. Those questions will definitely have a place to be asked.