On this page are selected videos of speeches, statements, debates, and questions I raise in the House.
To watch parliamentary proceedings live, you can visit: https://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony
On this page are selected videos of speeches, statements, debates, and questions I raise in the House.
To watch parliamentary proceedings live, you can visit: https://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony
On June 17, 2020 at the Parliament, NDP MP Jenny Kwan asks if the federal government would commit to a 50-50 cost sharing with the province to buy the assets necessary to house the homeless population:
On June 2, 2020, I questioned Ministers about the long-delayed implementation of the $4 Billion Canada Housing Benefit, first announced in 2017, and about the conditions that migrant workers face during the COVID-19 pandemic in housing, in lack of health care and in seeking a path to permanency in Canada.
On May 27, 2020, MP Jenny Kwan asked questions of the Minister of Health about the devastating report by the Canadian military on what they saw in long-term care homes in the COVID-19 pandemic:
MP Jenny Kwan at the House Special COVID-19 Committee asking finance minister and deputy prime minister questions on emergency rental subsidy for businesses and support for municipal government, Translink and PNE:
In the May 12 Virtual sitting of the House (COVID-19 Special Committee), I asked:
On May 12, I asked the following questions:
On March 12, 2020, I gave a speech in the House on universal comprehensive public single payer Pharmacare.
This was in support of the NDP's Motion:
March 10, 2020 — Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) — That the House: (a) acknowledge the government’s intention to introduce and implement national pharmacare; (b) call on the government to implement the full recommendations of the final report of the Hoskins Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare, commencing with the immediate initiation of multilateral negotiations with the provinces and territories to establish a new, dedicated fiscal transfer to support universal, single-payer, public pharmacare that will be long term, predictable, fair and acceptable to provinces and territories; (c) urge the government to reject the U.S.-style private patchwork approach to drug coverage, which protects the profits of big pharmaceutical and insurance companies, but costs more to Canadians; and (d) recognize that investing in national pharmacare would help stimulate the economy while making life more affordable for everyone and strengthening our health care system.
On March 12, 2020, I gave a speech on Pharmacare in the House, in support of the NDP motion:
When I rose to ask the Prime Minister about the failures of his national housing strategy, including the glaring absence of a housing strategy that is led by Indigenous peoples, for rural, urban and northern Indigenous peoples, I received the usual meaningless talking points. This happened despite the fact that the Liberals pledged in 2017 with the introduction of the national housing strategy to address the housing crisis for Inuit, Métis and First Nations people.
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development even committed on the public record that the Liberals are committed to a separate national urban indigenous housing strategy by and for urban Indigenous people. However, years later there is still no action.
Aboriginal people in Canada are 10 times more likely than non-Aboriginal people to become homeless. When I pointed out that in Vancouver 40% of the homeless population are Indigenous peoples, the Prime Minister was so busy patting himself on the back with self-congratulatory rhetoric that I do not even think he realizes how severe the housing crisis is and how grossly disproportionate it is in affecting urban, rural and northern Indigenous communities.
On March 10, 2020, I asked of Prime Minister Trudeau:
On March 10, 2020, I rose to follow up on the need for the allocation of the necessary additional funds to support the national housing strategy in Budget 2020 and action for a urban, rural and northern indigenous housing strategy led by and for indigenous peoples:
On March 9, 2020, I was a little taken aback listening to Members' comments and answers in this debate in the House because it sounded as though some of the Conservative MPs are climate deniers:
On March 9, 2020, I stood in the House to ask the Parliamentary Secretary for National Revenue:
On January 28, I rose in the House to deliver a statement about universal, quality, affordable, accessible, licensed child care:
On February 27, 2020, I rose in Question Period to ask: