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| May 31, 2019 — — That the House: |
| (a) take note of the importance of a free and independent press to a healthy democracy; |
| (b) express its belief that it is inappropriate for partisan political actors to pick winners and losers in the media in an election year; |
| (c) condemn the inclusion of Unifor, a group that has taken and continues to take partisan political positions, in the panel that will oversee the distribution of the $600-million media bailout; and |
| (d) call on the government to immediately cease trying to stack the deck for the election with their media bailout and replace it with a proposal that does not allow government to pick winners and losers. |
| Notice also received from: |
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| May 31, 2019 — — That, given: |
| (a) the continuing high levels of illegal border crossings; |
| (b) the number of Mexican asylum claims is rising since the removal of visa requirements and the majority of these claims are being found ineligible; |
| (c) the backlog of claims at the Immigration and Refugee Board has reached 71,000; |
| (d) recent reports indicate that there has been a spike in Mexican nationals with ties to drug cartels in Canada following the removal of the visa requirement for Mexicans; and |
| (e) the emergence of human smuggling and other for-profit enterprises that provide logistical coordination of illegal border crossings from the United States; |
| the House urge the government to immediately require the Mexican government to take swift action to address the situation and that the government immediately close the loophole in the Canada–U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement. |
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| May 31, 2019 — — That, given: |
| (a) 40,000 Canadian Armed Forces members bravely served their country in Afghanistan; |
| (b) 158 Canadian Armed Forces members died as part of Canada’s contribution to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2014; |
| (c) four Canadian civilians were also killed; |
| (d) the Prime Minister is responsible for ensuring that the sacrifices and bravery of all members of the Canadian Armed Forces are properly commemorated across all government departments and agencies; |
| (e) the Prime Minister was absent at a recent ceremony dedicating the Kandahar Airfield Cenotaph; |
| (f) the ceremony was conducted largely in secret, without proactive communications by the government, and was only communicated via social media days after it had occurred; and |
| (g) the families of the fallen were not invited to participate; |
| the House call upon the Prime Minister to (i) immediately commit to ensuring that the National Monument for Canada’s Mission to Afghanistan is placed in a prominent location that is fully accessible to the public and, in particular, the families of the fallen, (ii) personally apologize to Canada’s military community for his failure to appear at the dedication ceremony for the Kandahar Airfield Cenotaph, (iii) hold an immediate dedication ceremony to properly pay his respects to those who gave everything to stand on guard for Canada. |
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| May 31, 2019 — — That, given: |
| (a) it has been almost three months since the Chinese government arbitrarily blocked the import of Canadian canola seeds; |
| (b) the Liberal government has failed to take any meaningful action to resolve this impasse; |
| (c) the Prime Minister has publicly admitted that action by the Chinese government has no science-based justification; |
| (d) the government is still using Canadian tax dollars to fund the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank with no benefit to Canadian tax payers; and |
| (e) it has been almost a month since the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food promised to grant Canadian canola farmers additional financial aid through an enhancement of the Advanced Payments Program (APP) but no aid has yet been delivered; |
| the House call on the government to immediately (i) implement the promised enhancements to the APP program and extend the enhanced eligibility to other agriculture commodities, such as soy, that are also suffering the consequences of the Prime Minister’s naïve approach to Canada–China relations, (ii) appoint a Canadian ambassador to China, (iii) launch a formal World Trade Organization complaint against China’s arbitrary action. |
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