Tamara Kronis

Mr. Speaker, the government says that the pressures on diesel prices are the result of global factors that will not go away quickly. The member talks about relief, but the relief he is proposing is temporary. That will only prolong the uncertainty that our supply chains and businesses are facing as they make investment decisions. Why not support our motion and give Canadians more lasting relief [more]

Mr. Speaker, the hon. member and I often reflect on the fact that we represent coastal ridings where it feels like we get hit with high fuel costs on the way to the grocery store, at the grocery store and on the way home from the grocery store. I wonder if the member could share a bit more about what she is hearing in her community, because if it is anything like mine, food affordability is a [more]

Madam Speaker, I cannot find the provisions that the member is looking for. What I can find are immense transfers of discretion to cabinet, which would allow it to define a number of vaguely defined words and do, really, whatever it deems appropriate.

Madam Speaker, I think there are a lot of provisions in this bill that are quite flabbergasting and that do exactly the kinds of things the member is talking about in terms of transferring an immense amount of power to cabinet. Again, it may be that that is what Canadians want at this time. I would like to see us get the opportunity to really hear from Canadians and give them the chance to [more]

C‑39 Mr. Speaker, my colleague gave an excellent speech. I share his cautious approach. We need to see how this bill will be applied in practice. I would like to ask him what he is hearing from his constituents about Bill.

Mr. Speaker, the last question highlighted the difference between the Conservatives' approach to this issue and the Liberals' approach to this issue. They are talking about “measured”, and we are talking about making a substantial difference in Canadians' lives by removing the entirety of everything the government can control in terms of the price of diesel. The member talked about the most [more]

Mr. Speaker, my colleague referred to the ability to have ingredients from multiple provinces for breakfast, lunch and dinner and talked about building Canada strong. I am wondering if she could update us on the progress of eliminating interprovincial trade barriers.

Mr. Speaker, in the previous question, the member opposite lamented the fact that process holds up these bills. I wonder if my colleague, whose speech was excellent, could speak about the importance of process in making sure Canadians are able to comprehend what their government is doing so that they can have confidence that it is working for them.

Prime Minister Madam Speaker, like many Canadians, I keep going back to the's Davos speech. C-39 The mark of a good debater is the ability to argue both sides of an issue, and so I wondered, if the Prime Minister was on this side of the House, what would he say about Bill, given those remarks? Prime Minister The's Davos speech channelled a metaphor made famous by Václav Havel, a Czech [more]

Madam Speaker, I believe the member has made my point.

Madam Speaker, the member opposite is right that this is part of a series of bills. I believe there were nine or 10 of them, or something like that, in June. I am hoping to get the chance to spend enough time with this legislation to be able to judge exactly what it would do. Once I have that opportunity, I would be pleased to have a conversation with the member about what he thinks it would do.

Madam Speaker, the member touched on the omnibus nature of the bill, so the breadth of the bill. He touched on the extensive transfer of powers to the government into cabinet. I wonder if he would also like to comment on the speed at which this bill is being brought into the House.

Mr. Speaker, many of us know the quiet satisfaction of spending a weekend puttering around fixing things: repairing a broken window sash, resetting a shifting stone in the garden, repainting a door or securing fresh glass. However, when the paint covers graffiti on a mosque or gurdwara, when the stones being reset are headstones knocked over in a churchyard or when the door being repaired is the [more]

Here is the question I'm getting at. You've made the case for why you believe it should be reasonable grounds to suspect instead of reasonable grounds to believe for the MLAT process, because all you're asking for—I'm putting “all” in air quotes for that—is the basic subscriber information—not the content of the message. You would ask for the content under the full-blown MLAT process. When you [more]

That's exactly right. There's no double jeopardy aspect of it. If you're early in the investigation, as opposed to much further down the line when you're actually looking for more than the content, then you want to be able to use this tool instead of having to wait and try to find a bunch of other information. Basically, when you run out of other roads, you'll then go into the MLAT process, and [more]

That helps to explain things for me. This has been a really clarifying conversation so far for me. What you're saying, I think, is that when it comes to this new process that didn't exist before this bill was drafted, the reason you picked the reasonable suspicion standard as opposed to the reasonable belief standard is that the type of information that you are trying to get through this is the [more]