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Core 1..132 Hansard (PRISM::Advent3b2 14.00) House of Commons Debates VOLUME 146 Ï NUMBER 052 Ï 1st SESSION Ï 41st PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD) Wednesday, November 23, 2011 Speaker: The Honourable Andrew Scheer CONTENTS (Table of Contents appears at back of this issue.) 3453 HOUSE OF COMMONS Wednesday, November 23, 2011 The House met at 2 p.m. POVERTY Mr. Don Davies (Vancouver Kingsway, NDP): Mr. Speaker, I rise today to highlight an issue that touches far too many people in Canada: child and family poverty. Prayers It has been over 20 years since the House unanimously adopted an NDP motion to eradicate child poverty and yet, in 2011, the statistics Ï (1405) are appalling: 639,000, nearly one in ten Canadian children, live in poverty today; and 52% of all single mothers with children under six [English] live in poverty. The Speaker: It being Wednesday, we will have the singing of the Having a full-time job is often not enough. One in four Canadians national anthem led today by the hon. member for Newmarket— working full time earn less than the poverty rate. One in three poor Aurora. children have at least one parent who works full time. [Members sang the national anthem] Canadian children, seniors, families and youth all are experiencing levels of poverty that are simply unacceptable in a nation as wealthy as ours. This is an intolerable situation that demands action from all elected officials, but especially from our federal government. STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS Today, I call on the government to join provincial and territorial governments, first nations and civil society to develop a national [English] poverty reduction strategy. We cannot, we must not and we should not wait any longer. UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY *** Mr. Colin Carrie (Oshawa, CPC): Mr. Speaker, there is a reason DR. LOU LUKENDA AND MAE LUKENDA that Oshawa is considered one of the fastest-growing cities in Mr. Bryan Hayes (Sault Ste. Marie, CPC): Mr. Speaker, I Canada. Oshawa boasts some of the most impressive post-secondary recently attended the John Rhodes Scholarship dinner in my riding institutions in Canada that will help create the jobs of tomorrow of Sault Ste. Marie in honour of Dr. Lou and Mae Lukenda. today. Dr. Lukenda is a dentist, philanthropist and citizen extraordinaire. Nowhere is this more evident than at the University of Ontario He donated the Windsor Park Hotel to Algoma University, which has Institute of Technology. In Oshawa, UOIT has created the perfect been converted into a student residence, assisting the recently storm in the name of innovation. Recently, the Automotive Centre of accredited university to grow and prosper. He also donated a Excellence was officially opened in the midst of a raging Arctic corporate office he owned to our sister city of Sault Ste. Marie, blizzard. This world-class facility includes one of the largest and Michigan, for conversion to its new city hall. most sophisticated climatic wind tunnels in the world. This tunnel When our local OHL team, the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, were can create temperatures from -40°C to 60°C and is able to simulate in danger of being moved from Sault Ste. Marie, he bought the team, conditions like driving in the middle of an Arctic blizzard. This is preserving a high level of athletic competition, an economic benefit where the next generation of electric and alternative fuel vehicles, for Sault Ste. Marie. green energy technology and products will be discovered, tested and validated. He excelled in dentistry for 38 years and as a distinguished member of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, Dr. UOIT will help lead Oshawa into the future. Lou and Mae Lukenda have increased the well-being of many who live in my riding through their philanthropy, civil engagement and I would like to take this opportunity to welcome the new vice- professionalism. They have demonstrated what it means to be good chancellor, Dr. Tim McTiernan. citizens. 3454 COMMONS DEBATES November 23, 2011 Statements by Members I congratulate Dr. Lou and Mae Lukenda and thank them for truly The disparity between the top 1% of income earners and the other serving their community. 99% affects us all. Unequal societies are more likely to become dysfunctional. Health care costs rise while productivity is lost, and, it *** is children who are hurt the most. Ï (1410) Twenty-two years ago this month, Ed Broadbent introduced a THE ENVIRONMENT landmark motion to end child poverty by the year 2000. His motion Ms. Kirsty Duncan (Etobicoke North, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, in received unanimous support in this House but, over two decades 1987, Canada took a leadership role at the Vienna Convention, later, the number of children living in poverty today is at almost the which phased out ozone-destroying CFCs. Studies show that without same level as it was in 1989. it, most of the ozone layer would have been destroyed by 2065, a catastrophe. In fact, out of the 24 richest nations in the world, Canada ranks 17th in caring for its children in poverty and 38% of food bank users This week, the ninth meeting of parties to the Vienna Convention are children. There are more food banks in Canada today than there is being held in Bali, Indonesia. Our commitments to ozone are McDonald's. One in nine Canadian children lives in poverty. monitoring and science will be questioned, given that Environment Canada's ozone scientists have received letters saying that their This holiday season I urge all members to support their local food positions are in jeopardy. banks and the United Way, but, frankly, if we want to give true Next week is the Durban climate change conference. The meaning to the spirit of Christmas, then we need to act here in International Energy Agency says that rising fossil fuel energy use Parliament to end poverty now. will lead to irreversible and potentially catastrophic climate change. *** Will the government remember that we have a moral obligation to our children and grandchildren and honour it by meeting LORNE REZNOWSKI scientifically defensible greenhouse gas targets? Mr. Rod Bruinooge (Winnipeg South, CPC): Mr. Speaker, a We are thankful for the action the world took in 1987 and we need constituent of mine, a retired University of Manitoba professor, Dr. to be similarly courageous now. Lorne Reznowski, passed away on November 9, and I would like to reflect on his important contributions to Canada. *** JUSTICE In the 1960s and 1970s, Dr. Reznowski worked with both Social Credit Party leaders, Robert Thompson and Réal Caouette, and later Mr. Rob Anders (Calgary West, CPC): Mr. Speaker, our became leader himself while the party still had MPs in the House of government is committed to putting real criminals behind bars. Commons. Canadians who have been a victim of a crime should not be recriminalized by the criminal justice system. That is why our As a strong opponent of Prime Minister Trudeau's policies, Dr. government has introduced Bill C-26. This legislation would bring Reznowski correctly predicted that the 1969 omnibus bill would much needed reform for Canadians to defend themselves and their bring Canada into a demographic crisis within his lifetime. Of property and arrest the perpetrators. course, he was right on this and on so many other issues related to Last year Joseph Singleton, a resident of Alberta, while trying to the social policies of that era. protect his property, was charged with assault. Rather than being supported, his brave act to defend his home and his family has His strong beliefs are summed up in a quote from the 1980-81 caused him more harm than good. Mr. Singleton had to go through Who's Who in America: the complex and lengthy court system to clear his own name. I firmly believe that one should never compromise his principles no matter what the immediate gain may be. I don't believe those principles should be swayed by There should be no more innocent victims who are penalized for Gallup polls or opinion surveys. My principles are not rooted in the prevailing defending their property. Bill C-26 would help police and judges to secular humanism but in the Christian tradition. determine who the actual criminals and victims are and will prevent similar cases. Canadians would now have the fundamental right to I extend my heartfelt condolences to the Reznowski family. protect themselves, their family and their property. *** *** CHILD POVERTY Ï (1415) Ms. Chris Charlton (Hamilton Mountain, NDP): Mr. Speaker, PROSTATE CANCER it has been another tough year for Canadian families. However, thanks to the Occupy movement, unprecedented media attention has Mr. Ed Holder (London West, CPC): Mr. Speaker, several years finally been brought to the growing gap between the rich and the ago, I lost a great friend to prostate cancer, and it sorrows me to this poor. day to think that it may have been preventable. November 23, 2011 COMMONS DEBATES 3455 Statements by Members He is my motivation for participating in movember again this year. The interim Liberal leader recently called for the end of tax credits Along with thousands of other men, I have boldly made a challenge for children, transit users and workers. The Liberals continue to call to my peers and have asked them to take the risk seriously and get for higher taxes on job creators, despite the current global economic their prostate checked regularly. uncertainty. The Liberal Party still has no new ideas other than higher taxes for Canadian families, just like their friends in the NDP. The month-long movember campaign has broached this subject with humour because too many men still do not get it.
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