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  • His favourite word is privacy.

NDP MP for Hamilton Centre (Ontario)

Won his last election, in 2021, with 49% of the vote.

Yesterday

Spoke in the House on National Framework for a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income Act Madam Speaker, there are few opportunities to rise in the House that give me the type of honour that has been bestowed upon me to speak ...

Spoke in the House on Budget Implementation Act, 2024, No. 1 Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the hon. member raising the cost of housing as a prime issue. He called it a “black hole”. I would say that, ...

Voted Yes on Vote #754 Eighth report of the Standing Committee on National Defence

Voted Yes on Vote #755 18th report of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights

Voted No on Vote #756 on Bill C-375 Amend the Impact Assessment Act (federal-provincial agreements)

Voted Yes on Vote #757 Private Members' Business M-112 (Political interference, violence, or intimidation on Canadian soil)

Voted Yes on Vote #758 on Bill C-270 Amend the Criminal Code (pornographic material)

A week ago

Spoke in the House on The Budget Mr. Speaker, if I heard correctly, I believe the hon. member for Davenport said that it was great news that the disability tax credit finally came ...

Spoke at the Information & Ethics committee on Impact of Disinformation and of Misinformation on the Work of Parliamentarians I'll interject for a moment. While I appreciate the distinction between correlation and causation, I think it's safe to say that we wouldn't have ended up ...

Two weeks ago

Spoke in the House on Corrections and Conditional Release Act Madam Speaker, certainly ending the week by debating the bill before us provides a certain level of weight for anybody who is recounting the atrocities and ...

Spoke in the House on The Economy Madam Speaker, the Liberals are so out of touch. Just as New Democrats have delivered social programs to help Canadians, the Conservatives are already campaigning to ...

Three weeks ago

Spoke at the Information & Ethics committee on Main Estimates 2024-25: Vote 1 under Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying, ... I put to you that, in my short time of four or five years here, one frustration I have—coming against the idea of open government, of ...

Spoke in the House on Oil and Gas Industry Mr. Speaker, Ontarians woke up this morning to find out that they got mugged by corporate oil and gas greed today. Gas prices are up 14¢ ...

Spoke at the Information & Ethics committee on Main Estimates 2024-25: Vote 1 under Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying, ... Minus the gapping that you had by not having a permanent person, would you have found upward pressures, given the cost of living, collective agreements and ...

Spoke in the House on Points of Order Mr. Speaker, I rise on the same point of order. It is important for us to reflect on what has transpired in the House. You will ...

Spoke in the House on Housing Mr. Speaker, this past weekend, I met with over 100 youth from Hamilton who told me they do not even know how they are going to ...

A month ago

Spoke at the Information & Ethics committee on Use of Social Media Platforms for Data Harvesting and Unethical or Illicit ... This is what I would say, just from a strategic point of view. I happen to think that allowing that study to happen would actually give ...

Spoke at the Information & Ethics committee on Committee Business and Election of Vice-Chairs Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I'd be remiss not to note that it took our having these amendments to have a real discussion about what ...

Two months ago

Spoke at the Information & Ethics committee on Federal Government's Use of Technological Tools Capable of Extracting Personal Data from ... I do appreciate that. I'm dealing with some technical difficulties on my end with Adobe with those licences, but that's another story,. For me, at the ...

Spoke at the Information & Ethics committee on Decision of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to Not Pursue a ... Mr. Chair, I do caution you on this, as somebody else who's.... My intention is to support the demand; my intention was to support the demand ...

Spoke at the Information & Ethics committee on Decision of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to Not Pursue a ... Thank you very much. I'm going to do something that maybe I don't do often enough, which is to provide the benefit of the doubt to ...

More than three months ago

Introduced legislation Private member's bill C-222 An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (travel expenses deduction for tradespersons)