Jenny Kwan, MP

A huge thanks to the First Peoples for allowing us to gather, work and play in their unceded Coast Salish territories. Many thanks as well to the Britannia Community Services Centre for organizing an incredible event. The entire park came alive with performances throughout the day, including the Evaporators' energetic finish! I'm so very proud of our community's faces of the world!

Now is our moment. Bring in universal comprehensive public single payer Pharmacare in Budget 2020!

Posted by Jenny Kwan MP account · March 12, 2020 1:25 PM · 1 reaction

A Top Housing Priority: a funded housing strategy led by Indigenous peoples, for urban, rural, and northern Indigenous peoples

Posted by Jenny Kwan MP account · March 11, 2020 1:13 PM · 1 reaction

Jenny on adding respect for Indigenous peoples' treaty rights to the Canadian Citizenship Oath

Posted by Jenny Kwan MP account · February 24, 2020 11:10 AM

Urgent Action Needed on Strathcona Park and other Homeless Encampments - A Joint Call for Action

Posted by Jenny Kwan MP account · September 10, 2020 12:45 PM

Applying Biometrics Exemptions during COVID-19 Pandemic

Posted by Jenny Kwan MP account · August 07, 2020 10:28 AM

Cost-sharing Plan with B.C. Provincial and Municipal Government Urgently Needed to Address Homelessness Crisis

Posted by Jenny Kwan MP account · July 29, 2020 9:56 AM

Neighbourhood Houses are the heartbeat of our community, and we’re so lucky in Vancouver East to have four of the ten in Metro Van: Kiwassa Neighbourhood House, Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House, Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House, and Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House. Van East is also home to the Association of BC Neighbourhood Houses. Today I rose in the House of Commons to call on the federal government to provide stable, long-term funding to neighbourhood houses. This, in turn, will help people connect and engage with one another, participate in civic life and, together, foster a sense of belonging.

Another day, another bit of evidence that the Prime Minister’s #RefugeesWelcome rhetoric is just that: rhetoric. Tweets aside, this Liberal government has taken no action on improving Designated Countries of Origin policy and refuses to give the Immigration Refugee Board the resources it has requested—and desperately needs. Nice words aren’t enough to solve these issues. Will the Liberal government protect the integrity of the IRB and Canada’s immigration system, and take action now? 

Vancouver’s Chinatown is one of the most endangered sites in Vancouver and Canada. That is why we must make a concerted effort now to preserve it—or lose it forever.

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise in this House to support the motion tabled by my colleague, the member for Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie. The motion calls on the government to close the loopholes on tax havens and to crack down on tax evasion.

On Friday, January 27, 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries from the United States for at least the next 90 days. The countries included in this ban are Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. Also included in the executive order are an indefinite ban on Syrian refugees and a four-month ban on the admission of any refugee or refugee claimant.