Third Reading Speech: Bill C-6 – An Act to Amend the Citizenship Act
“Society is not judged by how it treats its strongest, but how it includes its weakest.”
Senate Business
Question to the Minister of Veterans Affairs – Federally Funded Infrastructure Projects and the Hiring of Veterans
"In my experience, targets matter. What gets measured gets done. Have you set hiring targets for federally funded infrastructure projects and the hiring of veterans? What are these targets? Can you share them with us? What is your progress to date against these targets?"
Third Reading Speech: Bill C-6 – An Act to Amend the Citizenship Act
Speaking in Support of Senator McCoy’s amendments to citizenship revocation procedure
My tribute to Canada’s great storyteller, Stuart McLean
“He told his stories with compassion, with humour, with respect and with dignity. He invited Canadians to send him their stories and in his hand these stories were transformed into vignettes of humanity. And so he moved us to tears of joy or sadness, in equal measure and often at the same time.”
Speech: Indigenous Women in Canadian Prisons
“I am no authority on the social roots of Indigenous incarceration. I do not pretend to know the horror that our colleague has witnessed. As deeply as her stories touch me, I am aware that I cannot know what separation from my children feels like. I cannot know the sounds and smells of a single segregation cell. Even fragments of these experiences are impossible to imagine. And yet these are just moments in a horrific journey that for some women lasts years, even decades.”