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House of Commons Debates VOLUME 148 Ï NUMBER 378 Ï 1st SESSION Ï 42nd PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD) Tuesday, February 5, 2019 Speaker: The Honourable Geoff Regan CONTENTS (Table of Contents appears at back of this issue.) 25241 HOUSE OF COMMONS Tuesday, February 5, 2019 The House met at 10 a.m. that purpose and to work with all levels of government to provide sustainable, predictable, long-term and adequate funding. Prayer PHARMACARE Mr. Don Davies (Vancouver Kingsway, NDP): Mr. Speaker, my final petition calls on the government to immediately implement ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS public, comprehensive, universal pharmacare. It points out that 20% Ï (1005) of Canadians are unable to fill their prescriptions due to cost, that people have to struggle to pay for the medicine they need, that [Translation] Canada is the only country in the world with universal medicare that INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ACT does not include prescription drugs and that we can save billions of Hon. Pablo Rodriguez (Minister of Canadian Heritage and dollars while covering every Canadian. They urge the government to Multiculturalism, Lib.) moved for leave to introduce Bill C-91, An follow the New Democrat plan and to do so immediately. Act respecting Indigenous languages. (Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed) TRANS MOUNTAIN PIPELINE *** Ms. Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands, GP): Mr. Speaker, [English] it is an honour to rise this morning with an e-petition signed by 15,577 Canadians. When the petition started, it was not post-dated, PETITIONS as things now stand. They were calling on the government not to do ANIMAL WELFARE what the government has done. The 15,577 residents of Canada were Mrs. Stephanie Kusie (Calgary Midnapore, CPC): Mr. Speak- calling on the government to immediately halt plans to purchase the er, I rise today to table a petition submitted by constituents in my Trans Mountain pipeline or otherwise support its expansion. I submit riding of Calgary Midnapore. These individuals clearly care deeply that the petitioners would want it noted that they asked the about the welfare of animals and are asking that the sale and/or government to take into consideration that shipping out raw bitumen manufacturing of animal-tested cosmetics and their ingredients be is also shipping out Canadian jobs and that we do not know how to banned in Canada moving forward. clean up a spill of diluted bitumen. PLASTICS [Translation] Mr. Don Davies (Vancouver Kingsway, NDP): Mr. Speaker, I have three petitions to introduce today, signed by many residents of HEALTH Vancouver Kingsway and the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. The first is a petition to establish a national strategy to combat Ms. Anne Minh-Thu Quach (Salaberry—Suroît, NDP): Mr. plastic pollution. Many residents point out their concern that plastics Speaker, I have a petition signed by residents of Akwesasne. are making their way into various bodies of water via storm drains and are interfering with our global ocean currents, and this is causing [English] massive problems for species and bodies of water around the world. They call on the government to adopt a national strategy to combat this immediately. The petitioners ask the government to provide funding for the clinical treatment of drug and alcohol abuse disorders for first PUBLIC TRANSIT nations, because drug and alcohol abuse disorders have significant Mr. Don Davies (Vancouver Kingsway, NDP): Mr. Speaker, my impacts on first nations. People suffering from these disorders have a second petition is calling on the government to enact a Canadian right to proper treatment and culturally appropriate treatment public transit strategy that would provide a permanent investment methods, and holistic approaches are essential to treat substance plan to support public transit and establish funding mechanisms for abuse disorders. 25242 COMMONS DEBATES February 5, 2019 Business of Supply They call on the government to make funding available The Speaker: I thank the hon. minister, but of course, this is not a immediately for treatment centres throughout Canada, such as in point of order. I understand, and I think members understand, why he the White Pine Healing Lodge in Akwesasne. wanted to do that, but it is not strictly a point of order. CANADIAN HERITAGE Mr. John Aldag (Cloverdale—Langley City, Lib.): Mr. Speak- er, I am pleased to table a petition this morning that is a follow-up to a series of petitions I tabled in the fall calling on the government to invest in historic places in Canada, including with the reinstatement GOVERNMENT ORDERS of $10 million per year for the national cost-share program. The signatories come from across Ontario. I am pleased to present this [Translation] petition on behalf of those interested in heritage in Canada. PHARMACARE BUSINESS OF SUPPLY Mr. Kevin Lamoureux (Winnipeg North, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I would like to table yet another petition from the residents of OPPOSITION MOTION—SINGLE TAX RETURN IN QUEBEC Winnipeg North in support of the government looking into the possibility of having a national pharmacare program for prescribed Mr. Alain Rayes (Richmond—Arthabaska, CPC) moved: medicines and working with the many different stakeholders to somehow make that happen. That, given: VISION CARE Mr. Daniel Blaikie (Elmwood—Transcona, NDP): Mr. Speaker, (a) the House has great respect for provincial jurisdiction and trust in provincial institutions; it is my privilege to present two petitions in the House this morning. The first is from citizens calling on the government to commit to (b) the people of Quebec are burdened with completing and submitting two tax acknowledging eye health and vision care as a growing public health returns, one federal and one provincial; issue and to respond to it, particularly for Canada's vulnerable populations, namely children, seniors, diabetics and indigenous (c) the House believes in cutting red tape and reducing unnecessary paperwork to people, through the development of a national framework for action improve the everyday lives of families; therefore, to promote eye health and vision care, which will benefit all Canadians through the reduction of vision impairment resulting from the House call on the government to work with the Government of Quebec to preventable conditions and the modification of known risk factors. implement a single tax return in Quebec, as adopted unanimously in the motion of the National Assembly of Quebec on May 15, 2018. FALUN GONG Mr. Daniel Blaikie (Elmwood—Transcona, NDP): Mr. Speaker, He said: Mr. Speaker, I am truly proud to rise in the House to talk the second petition I have the honour of presenting today has to do about the motion we moved today. I want to thank my colleague with the persecution of practitioners of Falun Gong in China and is Pat Kelly, the member for Calgary Rocky Ridge, for seconding it. He particularly concerned with the apprehension of Canadian citizen is also the Conservative revenue critic. Ms. Sun Qian, who was abducted by the Chinese government. The petition calls for Canada to condemn the illegal arrest of a To begin with, allow me to read out the motion, so that everyone Canadian citizen for practising Falun Gong and calls for the can understand the sizeable impact it could have on Quebeckers if immediate and unconditional release of Canadian citizen Ms. Sun the government finally decides to drop its paternalistic, centralist Qian. approach and instead start listening to the public, the way we on this side of the House listen to the public. *** QUESTIONS ON THE ORDER PAPER The motion that we moved today is fairly simple, and I cannot Mr. Kevin Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the understand how anyone could be against it. Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I would ask that all questions be allowed to stand at this time. I would like to give some background for those watching at home. This is not something we made up. It is a fact. The only place in The Speaker: Is that agreed? Canada where people still have to fill out two tax returns is Quebec. Some hon. members: Agreed. This is a critical moment in Canada's history. For the first time, all of the political parties in Quebec—the right, the left, the federalists and Ï (1010) the sovereignists—and members of the National Assembly from the Hon. Pablo Rodriguez: Mr. Speaker, on a point of order. Minutes regions and urban centres voted unanimously on May 15, 2018, to ago I was able to table first reading of our bill to preserve and say that they want to do the same as the rest of Canada and fill out revitalize indigenous languages across the country. This is a historic only one tax return in the spring. No one likes filling out their tax moment and a great initiative of co-development. return, but we all have to do it. February 5, 2019 COMMONS DEBATES 25243 Business of Supply That is what we heard from people on the ground. That is what the hands of citizens as much as possible, whether that be the MPs, senators and our leader, Andrew Scheer, heard. Our leader patients, the clients, the entrepreneurs, the students, and so on. kicked off his “Listening to Quebecers” tour last April and wrapped it up two weeks ago with a 75-plus-page report. I myself tabled the report, which details what the people of Quebec's 17 administrative The ultimate goal is to decentralize powers and make the process regions told us. We are not making any of this up. We are just more effective and less expensive to make the public happy. That is moving a motion that addresses the concerns and the wishes of the our job here in the House.

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