Harb Gill

Mr. Speaker, that is a fantastic question. I still speak with people who used to work when the auto pact was in place. My uncle worked at the Ford Motor Company for nearly 40 years. My other uncle worked at Chrysler for nearly 35 years. They know what that plan was, and they still harken back to it and say, “We wish we had the auto pact.” We talk to people in Windsor— An hon. member: Oh, oh! [more]

Mr. Speaker, I rise today not with an abstract theory but with a testimony, the testimony of men and women who rise before dawn, who punch in, who build, who weld, who assemble and who simply ask only this of their country and its leaders: Stand with them as they stand for their nation. I speak for the good people of Windsor, Oshawa, Kitchener, Oakville, Ingersoll, Simcoe—Grey, Brampton and New [more]

Mr. Speaker, the reality is simple. Canada's auto sector has declined over 30% in production, while manufacturing jobs have barely grown, despite millions more in this country. That tells us that the current approach is not working. What we are proposing is grounded in common sense. If people want to sell cars in Canada, they should be building them here. By tying market access to production, [more]

Mr. Speaker, folks in Windsor have already started diversifying, and they started diversifying over 10 years ago. However, the uncertainty that the last year and a half has brought is something that is unprecedented. They were looking to the government for some solutions, because the Liberals promised them. They said, “We will have a deal by July 21. Don't you worry. We will have the best deal.” [more]

Mr. Speaker, my colleague has just given a fantastic, passionate speech. The chief of the largest police service in this country says that the laws that govern hate crime already exist and that they just need to be used. Would the added legislation help this process any further, or would it make things more confusing for law enforcement officers who are out there in the middle of the country and [more]

Mr. Speaker, Canada's sovereignty is not negotiable, but foreign conflicts are spilling onto our streets. Three synagogues have been shot up this past week. An Iranian dissident has disappeared, and the police think he may have been killed. However, the Liberals are patting themselves on the back because they removed one Iranian official linked to the IRGC. There are hundreds more on our streets. [more]

First and foremost, Mr. Speaker, no politician is allowed to tell a police officer what to do, end of story. Second, the laws as they exist now are more than sufficient to deal with the issues we are talking about. We do not need additional laws. We need clarity. We need rules of evidence that help enforce these laws, not additional legislation that is going to cause more confusion. A policeman [more]

Mr. Speaker, we are a faith-based people across Parliament and across this country. We need to let people practise their faith as they choose. We cannot go out to censor them and tell them to compromise their values and beliefs just because we do not like what they just said or what they just talked about. That is not the Canada we want to live in.