Yasir Naqvi

Mr. Speaker, Eid is a time to celebrate with family and friends, and for communities to come together in joy and solidarity. I was happy to join members of my community in Ottawa Centre and the diplomatic corps at a celebration organized by Abbis Mahmoud and Koussei Kurbaj that combine the Eid celebration and fundraising for the Ottawa breakfast program. The program is run by the Ottawa Network [more]

Mr. Speaker, I want to be absolutely clear to all members of this House: Forced labour is unacceptable. We must ensure that our global supply chains remain free from these abuses. That is why we prioritize the inclusion of comprehensive labour provisions and free trade agreements to promote international labour standards. We also work with Public Safety to reduce forced labour from our supply [more]

Mr. Speaker, I am standing here as the member of Parliament for Ottawa Centre, which is a great honour that the good people of my community have given me. C-9 I am very much looking forward to speaking again on Bill, which is a very important piece of legislation. It emanates from a platform commitment that my party, the Liberal Party of Canada, made in the last election after consulting many [more]

C-9 Mr. Speaker, I think what we are considering here today is the entire bill, Bill. I went through, in quite some detail, the five pillars of the bill, that make the bill. The Conservatives have chosen to divide our communities. They have chosen to just pick one very small aspect of the bill, as opposed to looking at its entirety, something that is supported by Canadians coast to coast to [more]

Mr. Speaker, the member is somebody who, by the way, wears a collar. He knows what it means to work with communities and to protect communities. We have seen so much victimization happen in the country over the last few years because of people's religious beliefs. It is incumbent upon us to provide protections for them, to make sure that people are not being victimized because of their faith, [more]

Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his excellent question. This is a very important point, as to where those lines are. I think it is important to clarify that the bill is not a bubble-zone legislation. I know it is more commonly referred to as creating some sort of a bubble zone around places of worship, community centres or schools. That is not what the bill does. It does not talk about [more]

I appreciate the caution. We also cannot have this discussion while pretending or thinking that the world hasn't changed around us. Everybody has been speaking about weaponizing commercial power. Well, we're seeing that our biggest friend and ally has weaponized our market access to them against us as well. We find ourselves in a very unique circumstance. Mr. Pike, from the perspective of the [more]

Can I ask a very quick question as a follow-up?

Mr. Tohti...?

Thank you very much, Chair. Thank you to the witnesses for being here. I want to thank the earlier witnesses as well. This has been a very thoughtful discussion. I sincerely appreciate it. I want to put one thing on the record. I'd like to clarify that the agreement with China does not talk about EVs from a particular manufacturer. It just talks about 49,000 EVs. They could be from any [more]

You looked at me as if to say, “You have two more minutes, Yasir.”