Bill C79 – ISDS does not belong in trade agreements

Elizabeth May, Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands: Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise today in the House. I start by acknowledging we are on the traditional territory of the Algonquin peoples. The trans-Pacific partnership agreement has had a convoluted and somewhat rocky road. I think we would all admit that. I would ...

Tribute to the Member for Outremont

Elizabeth May Mr. Speaker, I also have the honour to rise today and join all my fellow MPs in paying tribute to our colleague, the distinguished member for Outremont. It is hard, as members would recognize, to play a sort of backup hitter at the very last of many fine speeches. However, I want to ...

Latin American Heritage Month

Elizabeth May Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise tonight to speak to Bill S-218, a bill for the creation of a Latin American cultural month in the month of October. Obviously, this is a heated debate over a very controversial bill, which is why we have six hours devoted to it. I have ...

C-51 is enough of an improvement that I am going to vote for it

Elizabeth May Mr. Speaker, I find myself surprised to have a speaking spot tonight. For that I want to thank the New Democratic Party. We do not agree about this bill, but it was a generous gesture to allow me to speak to it. I have been very engaged in the issue of anti-terrorism legislation ...

Tribute in memoriam, MP Gord Brown (1960 – 2018)

Elizabeth May Mr. Speaker, we all wish we were not rising on a sombre day to share memories of such a good guy. The hon. member for Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes has left us far too soon at 57. It is for all of us a deep shock. We heard the news just hours ...

A complete tanker ban gives legal teeth to a commitment made in 1972

Elizabeth May Madam Speaker, it is an honour to rise today to support Bill C-48, a bill to legislate a permanent tanker ban along British Columbia’s north coast. I also have amendments that I hope will still pass, which I brought before the committee. I find the debate about this tanker ban to take place, ...

Tribute to the Humboldt hockey players

Elizabeth May Mr. Speaker, it is an honour for me to rise today to join my colleagues in offering our condolences to the families, loved ones, and communities in Saskatchewan, as well as across Canada. I stand here today in a minor hockey jersey from one of our local teams, the Peninsula Eagles, because we ...

Bill C-68 goes a long way to repair the Fisheries Act

Elizabeth May Mr. Speaker, I would like to begin by acknowledging we are on the traditional territory of the Algonquin people, and express gratitude to them for their generosity and patience. Meegwetch. I also want to thank the hon. member for Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook for sharing his time with me, and acknowledge this shows a spirit of ...

Speech on the exoneration of six chiefs of Tsilhqot’in Nation

Elizabeth May Mr. Speaker, it is indeed an enormous honour to stand here today on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin peoples, to whom we say meegwetch for their generosity. Across this country, Indigenous peoples have allowed us settler culture people to share a territory. Historically, we have not done it in ways that ...

The environment and the economy are not going hand in hand when we build new fossil fuel infrastructure

Elizabeth May Madam Speaker, I would like to thank the hon. member for Beaches—East York for splitting his time with me. More specifically, I would like to thank the government House leader. As one can imagine, it has been a difficult thing for me over the years to obtain speaking slots on important bills. I ...