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  • His favourite word is respect.

Liberal MP for Parkdale—High Park (Ontario)

Won his last election, in 2021, with 42% of the vote.

A week ago

Voted Yes on Vote #847 on Bill C-69 Implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on April 16, 2024

Voted No on Vote #848 on Bill C-65 Amend the Canada Elections

Voted Yes on Vote #849 on Bill C-65 Amend the Canada Elections

Voted Yes on Vote #850 Private Members' Business M-109 (Instruction to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (amendments to the Standing …

Voted No on Vote #851 on Bill C-323 Amend the Excise Tax Act (mental health services)

Spoke in the House on Diversity and Inclusion Mr. Speaker, I welcome the Leader of the Opposition recognizing the divisive rhetoric and the division that is occurring in Canadian society right now. We have …

Two weeks ago

Spoke in the House on Miscarriage of Justice Review Commission Act (David and Joyce Milgaard's Law) Mr. Speaker, let me start with the fact that it is puzzling that the words “systemic racism” never come out of that member's mouth or come …

Three weeks ago

Spoke in the House on Online Harms Act moved that Bill C-63, An Act to enact the online harms act, to amend the Criminal Code, the Canadian Human Rights Act and An Act respecting …

Spoke at the Public Safety committee on Bill C-70 Thank you very much, Chair. I'm very pleased to be here today to speak to you about the threat of foreign interference in Canada and how …

A month ago

Spoke in the House on Justice Mr. Speaker, just to be clear, the bill that the Bloc Québécois tabled today proposes using the notwithstanding clause under section 33 of the Canadian Charter …

Spoke in the House on Women and Gender Equality Mr. Speaker, on this day in 1990, members of Parliament passed a Conservative bill that would sentence doctors to jail for providing abortions. Thankfully, that bill …

Spoke in the House on Justice Mr. Speaker, I will start by saluting the impressive work of the Peel police force for cracking an organized criminal ring that is taking people's cars. …

Spoke in the House on Official Languages Mr. Speaker, I would just like to point out that the court challenges program has been there from the beginning to protect official language minority communities. ...

Spoke in the House on Justice Mr. Speaker, the rise in auto theft in our country is not caused by one-off incidents of teenagers taking a joyride; it is perpetrated by networks ...

Three months ago

Spoke at the Justice committee on Subject Matter of Supplementary Estimates (C), 2023-24: Vote 5c under Department of ... Thank you, Chair, and members of the Committee. Thank you for inviting me to join you today. I would like to begin by acknowledging that we ...

More than three months ago

Spoke at the Declaration of Emergency committee on Review of the Exercise of Powers and the Performance of Duties and ... Thank you very much, Madam Chair. It is a pleasure to be back. I remember these sittings quite fondly. In terms of the timing, I remember ...

Introduced legislation Government bill C-63 An Act to enact the Online Harms Act, to amend the Criminal Code, the Canadian Human Rights Act and An Act respecting the mandatory reporting of Internet child pornography by persons who provide an Internet service and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts

Spoke at the Health committee on Subject matter of Bill C-62, An Act to amend An Act to ... Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I'm pleased to be here to speak to Bill C-62, which proposes to delay for three years, until March 17, ...

Spoke at the Justice committee on Nomination of the Honourable Mary T. Moreau to the Supreme Court of ... Honourable colleagues, I wish to begin by extending my thanks to you. Madam Chair, it's nice to see you. I also acknowledge that I'm speaking to ...

Spoke at the Justice committee on Bill C-40 Thank you. It's good to see you in the chair, Mr. Moore. Hello, colleagues. I hope you're all well. At the outset, I want to say ...

Spoke at the Justice committee on Subject Matter of Bill S-12, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, ... Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I'd like to begin by congratulating you on being elected chair of this committee. This is my first time here ...

Spoke at the International Trade committee on U.S. Countervailing and Antidumping Duties on Canadian Exports of Certain Softwood Lumber ... I'll pick it up there, because this is something.... You're probably all aware that we just had a trade trip to Washington, and we were pretty ...