Tamara Jansen

Mr. Speaker, the translation was a bit cut off, so I am not totally sure I understood his question. The challenge, as my other colleague spoke about, is we are going to have a patchwork of law. Every province can have its own bill. People will be able to travel from province to province. It is an absolute dog's breakfast. We need to say no to this bill.

C-218 Mr. Speaker, let us talk about the government's record here. Billwould have permanently prevented MAID from expanding to people whose sole underlying condition is mental illness. The Liberals voted it down on October 7. Twenty days later, they introduced their own legislation containing the same protection, but attached an entirely different expansion of MAID. The parliamentary committee [more]

Mr. Speaker, there is a cruel kind of thief that enters a home without breaking a window or turning a lock. It does not steal the family's silver or the money tucked away for a rainy day. The thief takes something far more precious. It steals memories, familiar faces and little pieces of a lifetime lovingly built together. About 10 years ago, that thief came for my auntie Grace. She arrived in [more]

Mr. Speaker, the political gamesmanship here is absolutely shameful. The government knows full well that Parliament has to act before March 17 to prevent MAID from expanding to mental illness alone. However, instead of introducing a straightforward bill to do exactly that, the Liberals have tied it to an entirely separate expansion of assisted dying. They are using an approaching deadline to [more]

Madam Speaker, I wonder if my Liberal colleague could provide us with a definition of intolerable suffering. A doctor would have to somehow decide that somebody has intolerable suffering. That person is not able to communicate with them, but they have made an advance request. As far as I understand, there is no definition at this time of the actual wording “intolerable suffering”.

Madam Speaker, we have heard the Liberals argue that anyone who does not support this bill is putting vulnerable Canadians at risk, but Conservatives have already put forward legislation to permanently exclude mental illness, and the Liberals voted against it. Could my colleague explain why the government is now insisting that protecting Canadians struggling with mental illness must come at the [more]

Mr. Speaker, yesterday, I shared a conversation around my family dinner table about how difficult life has become for young families like my daughter's, but some families face something far worse. A new report reveals that one in eight Toronto children relies on a food bank, and more than one in four surveyed families reported a child missing meals because they could not afford food. These are [more]

Mr. Speaker, I have spent enough time in business to know that when something is not working, we do not automatically fix it by changing the org chart. We have to identify the problem first. The government created the Defence Investment Agency promising procurement at speeds not seen in generations, but barely a year later, it is already proposing another restructure. I think it is reasonable to [more]

Mr. Speaker, it seems that what the government wants to do is avoid transparency by putting all of this money, as the PBO mentioned, into Crown corporations. It is very important that we demonstrate for Canadians that taxpayers are getting a fair deal.

Mr. Speaker, what frustrates me most is that we have heard these promises before. We were told that the Defence Investment Agency would eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy, speed up decision-making and finally get equipment into the hands of our armed forces. Now, barely a year later, we are being told that the agency needs to be restructured. Taxpayers want to know what they actually received for [more]

Mr. Speaker, with the interpretation, it did not seem like there was much of a question there, but I appreciate the question. As always, I am very concerned about the situation facing our seniors, especially with affordability issues. I hear so many in my riding say they are challenged just to put food on their own table and are using food banks. It is a shame.

C-31 Mr. Speaker, I have been looking closely at what the government is doing with the Defence Investment Agency in Bill, and I have to say that the more I look into it, the more questions I have. Prime Minister Imagine my skepticism last October when the government announced it was creating a new Defence Investment Agency. We were told that it would speed things up. Creating yet another level [more]

Mr. Speaker, what could a six-year-old boy's birthday teach us about the struggles facing Canadian families? This weekend, we took our grandson to Canadian Tire to buy his birthday present. I saw his little eyes light up as he picked out his hockey stick, helmet and gloves. He could hardly wait to get home. There we were, out on the street, Grandma in goal and David's little legs racing after [more]

Madam Speaker, I have raised five teenagers, and one thing I have learned is that telling a teenager they cannot do something does not necessarily mean they will not do it. Sometimes it means they will get a whole lot better at hiding it. That is what worries me about banning social media for kids under 16. Of course, we want to protect our kids, but we also have to be realistic about how [more]