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House Hansard - 92

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 20, 2022 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 92 - Jun/20/22
Mr. Matthew Green (Hamilton Centre, NDP)
  • Jun/20/22 4:07:46 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise today to present three petitions. The first, e-petition 3668, initiated by Joel DeBellefeuille and supported by Canadians from across the country, addresses the critically important need to end racial profiling. Racial profiling is a degrading and racist practice affecting too many people in Canada, and even the Supreme Court has acknowledged that systemic racial profiling by police occurs as a day-to-day reality for Black and indigenous Canadians. This petition calls upon the Minister of Public Safety to enact legislation that would prohibit racial profiling by police and make federal funding to law enforcement agencies dependent on those agencies having policies and procedures in place to end racial profiling.
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Context: House Hansard - 92 - Jun/20/22
Mr. Matthew Green (Hamilton Centre, NDP)
  • Jun/20/22 4:10:24 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, finally, I would like to present e-petition 3810, initiated by David Mivasair from my riding of Hamilton Centre, which seeks to bring attention to the recruiting of Canadian citizens to serve in the armed forces of foreign countries, with a particular concern for the potential foreign recruitment being undertaken by the Israeli consulate in Toronto. As members may be aware, the Foreign Enlistment Act states: Any person who, within Canada, recruits or otherwise induces any person or body of persons to enlist or to accept any commission or engagement in the armed forces of [a] foreign state or other armed forces operating in that state is guilty of an offence. This petition has had the support of more than 1,200 people, and a similar e-petition in the previous Parliament received close to 8,000 signatures. We were unable to table it due to the dissolution of Parliament. This petition calls on the Minister of Justice to undertake a thorough investigation of those who have recruited or facilitated recruitment for the Israel Defense Forces, and, if warranted, lay charges against those involved in recruitment and encouraging recruitment in the IDF.
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Context: House Hansard - 92 - Jun/20/22
Mr. Matthew Green (Hamilton Centre, NDP)
  • Jun/20/22 4:10:24 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, my second petition calls on the government to take immediate and concrete action to address the climate emergency in Canada. Since the Liberal government declared a climate emergency in 2019, we have endured heat domes and record heat waves in B.C., drought across the Prairies, flooding throughout the country, and massive storms in Ontario and Quebec that have left thousands of people without power for days on end. It is clear that we must act immediately to address the effects of catastrophic climate change. This petition calls for a broad spectrum of action, including reducing emissions levels by at least 60% of 2005 levels.
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