Madam Speaker, I am dividing my time with the member for Vancouver Centre. Prorogation can be mostly for benign reasons but in this case it was not. Done arbitrarily and out of the government’s own convenience, it was done to shut down voices that the government did not want to hear. That may be very [...]
Hunger Awareness Day
Posted on 01. Jun, 2010 in In the House of Commons
Today is national hunger awareness day, a day we hear the statistics of those who go hungry, but statistics don’t tell the story – real lives do. Pregnant mothers who don’t have enough to eat are less healthy, are more likely to give birth prematurely, and have kids who are less healthy and less strong. [...]
Canadian Air and Space Museum Pioneer Award
Posted on 14. May, 2010 in In the House of Commons
Hon. Ken Dryden (York Centre, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, on April 13, 1970, an explosion on Apollo 13, halted its moon landing mission, placing the lives of its astronauts in danger, and forcing Astronaut Jack Swigert to send one of the most famous messages in space history, his actual words slightly different from the movie version: [...]
The Holocaust
Posted on 12. Apr, 2010 in In the House of Commons
Hon. Ken Dryden (York Centre, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, in 1933 there were nine million Jews in Europe. Half a generation later, six million had perished in the Holocaust, others had fled for their lives, and only a few hundred thousand were left. The incalculable loss, fathers, mothers, grandparents the children never had. Children, so full [...]
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