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House Hansard - 222

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
September 21, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 222 - Sep/21/23
Ms. Bonita Zarrillo (Port Moody—Coquitlam, NDP)
  • Sep/21/23 10:19:44 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-33 
Madam Speaker, I am from the Lower Mainland of Vancouver, and in 2016 the port authority stopped funding its enforcement team. Four hundred thousand dollars was pulled out of enforcement at the port. It is a gap that still remains today. Could the member please let us know why the federal government is not funding additional enforcement when it knows there has not been enforcement in place for seven years?
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Context: House Hansard - 222 - Sep/21/23
Ms. Bonita Zarrillo (Port Moody—Coquitlam, NDP)
  • Sep/21/23 1:22:25 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-33 
Mr. Speaker, I am going to follow up on comments made by my colleague. I cannot believe that this speech was about the board and the focus of the board. Right now, what we are in need of is some management of the traffic in the port. The operations in the water need management. I was out on a port tour this summer in Vancouver, and it is the Wild West of port traffic. No one body has authority over that, and it certainly is not the boards or elected municipal politicians who are going to manage it. This is a serious problem. This is a safety, transparency and equity problem. How is this bill going to increase equity, increase safety and improve governance at the ports?
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Context: House Hansard - 222 - Sep/21/23
Ms. Bonita Zarrillo (Port Moody—Coquitlam, NDP)
  • Sep/21/23 2:49:09 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the government has turned it backs on persons with disabilities, who have endured a summer of skyrocketing housing prices, declining access to health care and increasing food prices. Canadians with disabilities are already twice as likely to live below the poverty line, and the Liberals have not provided them adequate support. This has left Canadians with disabilities unable to pay their bills. These are not luxury items; these are basic needs. Will the government finally create the disability emergency relief fund for which the community has been calling?
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