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Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I will pick up on the previous speaker's comments on virtue signalling. He was very passionate about protecting the rights of Canadians. I agree that, indeed, at McMaster there have been some really horrific crackdowns on Uighur support. The member named some countries.

November 17th, 2020House debate

Matthew GreenNDP

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With respect to the tax fairness motion that the House adopted on March 8, 2017: what steps has the government taken since then to (i) cap the stock option loophole, (ii) tighten the rules for shell corporations, (iii) renegotiate tax treaties that allow corporations to repatriate profits from tax havens back to Canada without paying tax, (iv) end forgiveness agreements without penalty for individuals suspected of tax evasion?

November 16th, 2020House debate

Matthew GreenNDP

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, the hon. member is very learned. He spoke a bit about the economics of this and referenced the Parliamentary Budget Officer. We have heard Liberals time and time again talk about a national pharmacare strategy, but they refuse to say it will be public. What does the member have to say about the government's own reports from former Ontario minister Dr.

November 5th, 2020House debate

Matthew GreenNDP

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, there are 900 Canadians in the Panama papers. When we talk about capital flight, this money is already going offshore. I know the hon. member's riding is hundreds of kilometres away from mine, yet the miners in his constituency would have fed the steel-working industry in my city.

November 5th, 2020House debate

Matthew GreenNDP

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, we heard the member talk about and plead for, actually, the New Democrats to work with Liberals, yet every step of the way their policies have been a dream deferred. What does the member for Halifax have to say to folks from Gottingen or Uniacke Square, the people who are waiting for housing and these types of social programs, when he and his government decide to vote against universal pharmacare, universal dental care and housing?

November 5th, 2020House debate

Matthew GreenNDP

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I recall that back in August, the hon. parliamentary secretary laughed at Denmark's proposal to tax the most wealthy. Today, he wants to dismiss our plan to tax the most wealthy among us, the 87 families that have more wealth than the bottom half of this country. He defended them with the very tired assertion that corporations are people.

November 5th, 2020House debate

Matthew GreenNDP

Points of Order  Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. As we have had the opportunity for second takes, I would like to refer you back to the original point of order, which was that our members were also interrupted through the online heckling. I am wondering if, through you, we could find unanimous consent to allow them to do a retake of their statements.

November 5th, 2020House debate

Matthew GreenNDP

Income Tax Act  Madam Speaker, the government has bragged about all the consultations and feedback it has had from small business communities, yet we are in November, finally rolling out this program. I will share this with the hon. member for Courtenay—Alberni. In my community there is a BIA, a small business on Locke Street.

November 4th, 2020House debate

Matthew GreenNDP

Income Tax Act  Madam Speaker, we have seen $750 billion in liquidity supports and regulatory easing for Bay Street and the big banks, and $81 billion in CERB. Now, here we are, talking about small business. They want to act as if they are hearing it for the first time. Could the hon. member tell us if he was consulted as the critic for finance when the Liberal government put $750 billion of our taxpayer dollars out to the banks, so they could lend it back to us with interest?

November 4th, 2020House debate

Matthew GreenNDP

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I have had the privilege of working with the hon. member at committee throughout this entire pandemic. I know he is thoughtful, he cares about his constituents, and he, no doubt, probably cares about small businesses, too. As New Democrats, we have been calling on the Liberals to fix their rent support program for months.

November 3rd, 2020House debate

Matthew GreenNDP

Bills of Exchange Act  Madam Speaker, we heard the hon. member speak at length and with passion about his constituents in Parkdale—High Park as being defenders of inherent indigenous rights, yet he also spoke about the long road to reconciliation. In fact, it was reported today that near my community, the Haudenosaunee, this road to reconciliation is under construction.

October 30th, 2020House debate

Matthew GreenNDP

Bills of Exchange Act  Madam Speaker, I felt very compelled today to rise and share what a deep honour and privilege it is to serve beside the hon. member for Winnipeg Centre. Her existence in this space is an act of resistance. In her sharing today, she talked about the importance of land and every child becoming an adult and working through their traumas.

October 30th, 2020House debate

Matthew GreenNDP

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, we heard the history of the October crisis in its historical context and heard members from the government's side talk about how the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was implemented since then. This is also a government that supported the draconian Bill C-51, which of course defined economic disruption as a form of domestic terrorism.

October 29th, 2020House debate

Matthew GreenNDP

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, I appreciated the hon. member bringing up the nuances, and I particularly appreciated his calling out the potentials for ableism in the agency of patients. One of the challenges created by the current medical assistance in dying legislation is a requirement for final consent at the time the assistance is rendered.

October 28th, 2020House debate

Matthew GreenNDP

Bills of Exchange Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to rise and echo the deep honour and privilege of working with the hon. member. We have had many conversations around dismantling white supremacy and decolonizing our spaces, including this one in the House of Commons. We have heard arguments against the expedited passage of the bill, having economic arguments about people taking a day off.

October 23rd, 2020House debate

Matthew GreenNDP