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House Hansard - 70

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 12, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 70 - May/12/22
Mr. Kevin Waugh (Saskatoon—Grasswood, CPC)
  • May/12/22 2:14:26 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it has been more than two years since COVID arrived in this country, and public health experts across Canada have been abundantly clear that we will live for years with COVID. Vaccination rates in this country are incredibly high, and the fourth dose of vaccinations are being rolled out. Transmissions, hospitalizations and deaths are all down significantly from the peak, and Canadians want to get their pre-COVID lives back again. Most of the provinces and territories across this country, including mine, the province of Saskatchewan, have lifted all mandates. It is time for the government of Canada to join the provinces and remove mandates from all areas within the federal jurisdiction.
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The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Mrs. Carol Hughes)
  • May/12/22 4:15:54 p.m.
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That is not a point of order; that is a point of clarification. I will not allow a back-and-forth on this. We will resume debate with the hon. member for Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan.
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Context: House Hansard - 70 - May/12/22
The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Mrs. Alexandra Mendès)
  • May/12/22 8:45:45 p.m.
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Order. Resuming debate. The hon. member for Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan.
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Context: House Hansard - 70 - May/12/22
The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Mrs. Carol Hughes)
  • May/12/22 9:46:07 p.m.
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The hon. member for Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan has a point of order.
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The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Mrs. Carol Hughes)
  • May/12/22 9:47:57 p.m.
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I appreciate the additional information but I had already ruled on it. I want to remind the hon. member that it has been ruled on and quorum cannot be called. The hon. member for Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan.
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The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Mrs. Carol Hughes)
  • May/12/22 9:48:31 p.m.
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I appreciate the attempt by the hon. member for Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan. I have double-checked with our clerks as to the decisions that have been rendered, and I have been advised that the Speaker has ruled on this and quorum cannot be called, based on the motion that was put before the House. Resuming debate, the hon. member for Cloverdale—Langley City.
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Context: House Hansard - 70 - May/12/22
Mr. Jeremy Patzer
  • May/12/22 10:44:08 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-13 
Madam Speaker, being a member from Saskatchewan, I do not think it would be appropriate for me to comment on things that are happening in the province of Quebec. I do not think we want people from Saskatchewan telling Quebec what it should be doing within its own jurisdiction, so I will leave making comments about Quebec to the members from Quebec because I think that is more appropriate. In the community of Gravelbourg, we have many great francophone businesses. For example, there is a bookstore there that is distinctly francophone. If people want to purchase a great piece of French literature, they can go there and purchase it. I have gone through that business myself. It is a great business. It has a lot of great literature that promotes the French language in Saskatchewan. In Saskatchewan, there are many communities and businesses where the French language is not just surviving but thriving. They are doing a great job of promoting the culture that has enabled communities to be tied to Quebec. They are not just purely of Catholic heritage; they are part of the grand scheme of things. Gravelbourg, Lafleche, Ponteix and many of the other communities in my riding are doing a great job of preserving the French language and French heritage—
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Context: House Hansard - 70 - May/12/22
Mr. Jeremy Patzer
  • May/12/22 10:46:03 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-13 
Madam Speaker, I want to thank the member for the great service he provides to his communities. I am sure in his riding there are many small pockets of francophone communities, as there in the communities in my riding and all across this great country. The bill would provide the opportunities for people to be able to learn French. There are many great communities that have French immersion programs. I did mention in my speech Collège Mathieu in Gravelbourg, which provides a French education for people who are trying to learn French. People from all across this great country take their high school education in Gravelbourg, for example, because they care so much about the language. We have lots of great things happening in Saskatchewan.
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Context: House Hansard - 70 - May/12/22
Ms. Elizabeth May
  • May/12/22 11:14:23 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-13 
Madam Speaker, the member for Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan has made many excellent points in the debate tonight. In Bill C-13, it says the minister would develop a strategy to increase immigration from nations that are essentially francophone and are likely to have those who speak French as their first language. We do not have a good record in terms of the approval of immigrants from francophone Africa. We need to do much better. I think we could improve this bill, and this is actually an answer to the minister's earlier question, by not just asking for a strategy for what we are going to do, or asking the minister to develop a strategy, but for some pointed changes in the way Bill C-13 is written, to actually suggest that some of the problems we are facing are deliberately addressed with targets. I know the member is also on the immigration committee. We have a crisis right now in the backlog for immigration, which also may explain a good deal of this, but not the refusal rates being disproportionately from Africa.
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