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Ms. Kristina Michaud (Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia, BQ)

Dec/2/21 2:45:26 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the minister needs to do everything he can to stem firearms trafficking, but that is simply not the case right now. We are even hearing this from customs officers. The president of their union said, and I quote: “Whether it be our detector dogs, our intelligence officers, our methods for combatting concealed weapons and so on, all this expertise is not being used between border crossings.” There are ways to address this; solutions do exist. Expertise could be solicited and better used. When will the minister do just that and tighten border controls?

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Context: House Hansard - 9 - Dec/2/21

Ms. Kristina Michaud (Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia, BQ)

Dec/2/21 2:46:38 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, concrete proposals are exactly what we are offering the government, by calling for police forces to work together to fight gun trafficking. However, the federal government is going in the opposite direction. Last year, the RCMP withdrew investigators from Quebec's national anti-organized crime squad. This summer, a retired police officer told La Presse that it is clear that the RCMP and the SQ are not talking as much today as they were a few years ago, adding that the forces still respect each other, but they do not talk to each other. Why is the minister refusing to restore co-operation and create a joint task force?

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Context: House Hansard - 9 - Dec/2/21

Ms. Kristina Michaud (Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia, BQ)

Dec/2/21 5:03:09 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I listened carefully to my colleague’s speech. I have a question for him about immigration. Quebec is experiencing a serious labour shortage, and immigration seems to be one of the solutions. However, we know that the Department of Immigration is one of the most dysfunctional departments in the federal government. I do not think that it is right to have staffers in our members' offices spending half of their day dealing with immigration cases that are gathering dust on someone's desk. I get the impression that the Department of Immigration does not have enough resources or people working to deal with the growing backlog. What solutions does my colleague have in mind? Should we immediately inject more resources into the Department of Immigration? Should we transfer some of these responsibilities to Quebec so that at least everything will be in the same place and there will be less buck-passing between the two levels of government? What does he believe are the solutions?

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Context: House Hansard - 9 - Dec/2/21

Ms. Kristina Michaud (Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia, BQ)

Dec/2/21 5:17:43 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-21

Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech. I really enjoyed working with her on the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. I hope she will serve on it again in this Parliament. She talked about gun control. In the previous Parliament, we did not have the time to study Bill C‑21, which nobody liked anyway, not firearms owners and not those who want to see assault weapons and all other firearms banned, because it did not make the buyback of military-style assault weapons mandatory. The Liberals have promised to make the buyback mandatory, which is a very good thing. However, the problem with the May 2020 list of banned firearms is that similar firearms or variations on them, like the SKS, are still available on the market. Why not try to include a definition of a military-style assault weapon in the Criminal Code? That way, we would know what type of firearms to ban, instead of making a list of banned firearms and leaving similar firearms on the market. What does my colleague think of that?

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Context: House Hansard - 9 - Dec/2/21

Ms. Kristina Michaud (Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia, BQ)

Dec/2/21 6:21:20 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech, I congratulate her for her election victory, and I was very pleased to see her this morning with the other members of the all-party caucus on the environment. I invite other members to join in. Her government is ambitious about fighting climate change, but in reality, Canada has the worst track record in the G7. We believe we need to drastically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, and to do that, we need to cap oil and gas production. However, her government talks about capping greenhouse gas emissions. I am not sure how we can do that without capping production. I would like to know what she thinks about that.

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