Energy Safety and Security Act

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to rise in this House again. Does my colleague believe it is possible to improve Bill C-6? Does she agree that we now have an opportunity to improve it? Sadia Groguhé: Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for her question. I think that improving the ...

Energy Safety and Security Act

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, that was an excellent address. The member spoke so clearly to the issues that I think all of us on the opposition benches at least, and I imagine some friends on the Conservative side in their heart, would like to see changed. I am going to refer to a brief that ...

Energy Safety and Security Act

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, I am very glad to have an opportunity to put some questions to the hon. member for Skeena—Bulkley Valley because, unlike the hon. member for Red Deer, I suspect he may have read Bill C-22 and knows there is nothing in the bill that has anything to do with tankers or ...

Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, I share the concerns of the hon. member for Vancouver East. There are some good elements of the bill. I appreciate the member for York Centre pointing out he is best minister we have ever had, although I do not know how the current Minister of Employment and Social Development feels ...

Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, I am glad my hon. colleague, the member for South Shore—St. Margaret’s, spent so much of his speech focusing on one part of the bill that I really do support, and that is the part dealing with the issue of lost Canadians. It has taken too long. It has proven complex. ...

Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague from Winnipeg North put forth some hypotheticals. One thing that has concerned a number of human rights organizations is whether this law would offend the Convention on the Rights of the Child? If a minor child whose parents lose citizenship and they have citizenship in another country, that ...

Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, I am pleased that we are on the subject of the imaginary issue of people who are in the armed forces who are not Canadian citizens. I put it to the minister in committee and he was clear about this as well. Number one, to join the Canadian Armed Forces a ...

Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, I find this bill very disturbing and for many of the reasons that the member has already outlined in terms of the notion that citizenship can be held as a discretionary privilege in the hands of any particular political administration. As I look at this bill, one of the areas that ...

Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, I wish we could be having the kind of conversation that would reflect the honesty of what is going on in this place, which would mean that I was not addressing my question through the Speaker to the hon. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration but to the puppet masters in the ...

Protecting Canadians from Unsafe Drugs Act (Vanessa’s Law)

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the member’s remarks and the fact that the official opposition will be voting in support of the bill, as will I. I certainly hope it will pass before we rise this summer, as the hon. member for Oakville has indicated he would like to see. Would the hon. member ...