In a spirit of solidarity, the community has pulled together to make it possible for the student body of some one thousand young people to complete their school year at the high school in Saint-Félix-de-Valois, L'Érablière. This tragedy, which caused bedlam in our community, has seriously disrupted the lives of hundreds of students and their parents. Speaker, on January 7, fire destroyed the Pierre-de-Lestage high school in Berthierville, the county seat of the riding of Berthier-Montcalm, which I have the honour of serving since 1993. Jigs and reels have expanded to rap, Acadian blues, folk, soul, choral and instrumental. We also extend special congratulations and good luck in March to Grammy nominee Natalie MacMaster. Great music and great culture have long roots in Atlantic Canada, from the immortal Portia White to Wilf Carter, Dutch Mason, Great Big Sea, the Rankins, the Nova Scotia Mass Choir, the Barra MacNeils, Roch Voisine, Barachois, Stan Rogers, Harry Hibbs, Don Messer, Rita MacNeil, Men of the Deeps, and many more. On behalf of all members of parliament I extend congratulations to all the award nominees and the winners, from Damhnait Doyle of Newfoundland to Lenny Gallant of P.E.I., or as Jonovision says “PE1”, and Natalie MacMaster of Cape Breton.įor all of us who are lucky enough to call the east coast home, the musical culture that is expanding to the rest of Canada and throughout the world is quickly becoming a great success story. Speaker, last night all of Canada witnessed another great instalment of the East Coast Music Awards. As well, our domestic legislation will place Canada at the forefront of the international justice movement and give juridical validation to the anguished plea of victims and survivors from the second world war to the killing fields of today of “never again”. There will be no safe havens, no base or sanctuary for the enemies of humankind. In a word, the ICC treaty is a wake-up call and a warning to tyrants everywhere. The ICC treaty will end a culture of impunity, deter national crimes, protect international peace and security, and serve as an international justice model. As of today 140 countries have signed the treaty and 28 countries including Canada have ratified it. On June 27, 2000, parliament enacted comprehensive, historic, watershed legislation to implement the ICC statute for Canada and to provide the legislative foundation to bring war criminals to justice. Speaker, the July 1998 adoption of the treaty for the establishment of an international criminal court is the most dramatic development in international human rights and international criminal law in the second half of the 20th century. It is time to equip our wardens to do the job they were trained to do. It is sad that the minister responsible has millions of dollars to spend on ads to mislead the public but no money to ensure the safety of our park wardens as they protect wildlife in our national parks.Īctions speak louder than words. The ad campaign is a gross misuse of public funds. The minister should know that 60 grievances have been filed over job conditions in the last six months alone and that the January 31 labour board ruling means wardens are out of uniform and off the job. Wildlife is being slaughtered while the minister funds false images. Despite the multimillion dollar smokescreen, all is not well in Canada's wilderness. Since that time Parks Canada has been engaged in an ad campaign featuring a park warden with the suggestion that all is well in the national parks. The Minister of Canadian Heritage has had three reports since 1993 stating that park wardens are at risk. Speaker, on January 31, HRDC directed Parks Canada to take immediate measures to protect park wardens from danger while they are engaged in law enforcement activity.
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