Dane Lloyd

Madam Speaker, it is an honour to rise and speak to this legislation that I brought forward. I want to start by thanking the McCann family, my colleagues of the House and all the supporters of the legislation and the victims' families. This has been a nine-year journey for me. I was first inspired to bring forward the legislation before I was elected. I was inspired by the model put forward in [more]

Madam Speaker, it was a true pleasure working with my colleague on the public safety committee. I want to talk about one particular area where we worked together to improve the legislation. Often, we have seen, when passing new or novel legislation that would give the government new powers, we put in review clauses to ensure that, after a specified period of time, usually five years, we could [more]

Mr. Speaker, the Liberals talk about hiring 1,000 new RCMP officers. They cannot even keep up with losses. The Liberals are failing to recruit, train and retain the police we need to protect our communities. In rural Canada, which I represent, police are stretched to the breaking point. They cannot keep up with the wave of violent crime that the Liberals have unleashed. The Auditor General has [more]

Mr. Speaker, the Liberals can try to distract and make Canadians look away from their absolute failure. The Auditor General's report is damning: 3,400 RCMP officers short. The Liberal government is continuing to fail to train and retain the officers we need to protect our communities, and it could not come at a worse possible time. After 10 years of the justice minister's failure to toughen up [more]

Lakeland Edmonton Griesbach Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my hon. colleague fromfor that very impassioned and personal speech. I was very moved by it. I want to thank the member of Parliament forfor bringing forward this very practical and reasonable legislation that I think would make a significant difference in the lives of victims' families, something that I have been very passionate about ever [more]

Mr. Speaker, the world is facing the biggest energy crisis since the 1973 oil embargo. Millions of barrels have been taken off-line, and Canada is one of the few countries that could provide critical energy to our allies. Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Thesaid that Canada would do its part, but the Liberal government has no plan to get our energy to world markets. After 10 years of [more]

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Watson, for being our witness all the way from New Zealand today. Does New Zealand maintain a public web page where they provide information about criminals who are wanted for deportation?

I only have a bit of time left, but I noticed in researching some of your commentary that you've talked about the exploitation of migrant communities by organized crime—scamming these people, breaching their visa conditions. Can you talk about effective ways in which New Zealand has protected vulnerable migrants from exploitation by organized crime?

Something we've heard during this study is that foreign governments can be very uncooperative in some cases when we're trying to return their citizens. They'll use things like not providing travel documents. Is this an experience that New Zealand has had, and have you been able to find a good workaround?

Is there a reason for that?

In 2024, there was a notable case in Canada—I'm not sure if you're aware—where an ISIS-inspired attack against Toronto's Jewish community was foiled. One of the alleged terrorists was able to evade immigration screening and claimed asylum in Canada in 2018 despite there being public videos circulated of this alleged terrorist participating in ISIS propaganda videos in Iraq. I wonder if you can [more]