In Parliament

Parliament is where I bring the voices of Vancouver East constituents to government and fight for real action and legislative change. I do this through debating and voting on legislation in the chamber, as well as attend committee meetings where Members of Parliament examine, discuss, and debate issues in greater depth and details.

On this page you can see all question period questions, statements and speeches that I make in the House of Commons. In the “In Committee” page you can see my debates and proceedings in various parliamentary committees.

Select videos of questions and statements can be viewed under the “House Speeches” section.

HANSARD: Jenny calls on the government to aid homelessness by supply safe and affordable homes

HANSARD: Will the Liberals put an end to the odious immigration detention practice and stop putting migrants and asylum seekers in jails?

HANSARD: Question on putting thousands of refugee claimants and migrants in jail

HANSARD: Jenny seeks to know why indigenous people are not receiving the support they deserve

HANSARD: Jenny urges the minister to acknowledge the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls inquiry

CIMM: Jenny addressing immigration backlogs and processing times

In Canada, there are already over 500,000 people here as migrant workers or undocumented, which is to say, people who have lost their status for one reason or another. With regard to the immigration levels numbers, the government is silent on the undocumented workers or undocumented people who are here, and the migrant workers.

In your opinion, do you think that the government should put a laser focus on regularizing the people who are already in Canada to meet our labour skills shortage? That would include refugees who are here, people who came from a different country trying to seek refuge in Canada.

I'll ask Ms. Gilbert, and then I will go to Mr. Bhatti...

HANSARD: What would government do to stop housing financialization?

HANSARD: House debate on dental care and housing benefit for low-income renters

HANSARD: Jenny rises a petition initiated by the Women Refugees Advocacy Project

CIMM: Jenny addressing immigration processing delays and ways to regulatize undocumented migrant workers

With regard to the processing delays that are happening pretty well in every single stream within IRCC, you made some suggestions on how to enhance the system. I really liked the idea of having specialized agents on various streams.
The other issue is that we also have over 500,000 people in this country who are temporary foreign workers or undocumented individuals. At the same time, we also have industry clamouring for more workers, and we tend to then turn to more temporary foreign workers.
Should the government be looking to regularize the people who are already here for a variety of reasons as well as to meet the immigration needs caused by the labour skills shortage?

Jenny in Parliament