Mar 10, 2010 | Can the minister assure the Senate and all Ontario francophones that the funds needed to maintain regional French-language services in Windsor will be allocated to Radio-Canada/CBC by your government?
Mar 10, 2010 | During the prorogation, I had the opportunity to spend some time with junior high and high school students in schools in and around Edmonton.
At one school, a very successful Christian high school, the subject of constituency representation came up. The young man who raised it is clearly intelligent and very interested in politics. In response to something I said, he reacted with absolute surprise and said something like “You mean that a MP should not have to always do what constituents tell him (or her) to do?” Well, in fact, that is what I meant.
Mar 10, 2010 | Can the Leader of the Government in the Senate assure us that the interim Information Commissioner will have the necessary and prompt support she will need from government to conduct this investigation?
Mar 10, 2010 | Honourable senators, people around the world have been celebrating International Women's Day for 100 years now. As several of my colleagues mentioned, March 8 is a day to honour women, to remind us all of women's rights, and to celebrate women's achievements. On Monday, people celebrated in different ways.
Mar 10, 2010 | Honourable senators, I rise today to pay tribute to an exceptional Canadian educator, Dominic Giroux, the rector of my alma mater, Laurentian University in Sudbury. Last month, I had the pleasure of attending an awards ceremony in Gatineau, where Mr. Giroux was named Personality of the Year in education by the newspaper Le Droit and Radio-Canada.
Mar 10, 2010 | Honourable senators, I rise today to pay tribute to David Pecaut who passed away from cancer on December 14, 2009.
Mar 9, 2010 | Honourable senators, there appear to be some contradictions in the government's statements and policies. The International Planned Parenthood Federation provides programs designed to improve maternal health. The Government of Canada has been supporting it since the 1980s. Yet the foundation is still waiting for its funding of $18 million for the next three years to be renewed. Why is the government no longer renewing those funds?
Mar 9, 2010 | Perhaps, to clear the air, the Leader of the Government in the Senate could inform this house of those gender-based analysis protocols, how they were applied and to what effect on the current budget. Perhaps the leader could table something in the house.
Mar 9, 2010 | Can the Leader of the Government tell us what plans the government has, other than changing one word in the national anthem, to help Canadian women take their place in society and exercise their influence, especially in economic and financial circles, where the mindset really needs to be changed?
Mar 9, 2010 | Can the Leader of the Government in the Senate tell this house if the government has any concrete plans to help women scientists overcome persistent barriers and encourage their participation in science, engineering and technology research, or will women once again be ignored in these non-traditional science and technology fields?