On this page are selected videos of speeches, statements, debates, and questions I raise in the House.
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On October 9th, 2020, Jenny rose and asked this question:
On September 24, 2020, I rose to table two petitions to the House:
On September 24, 2020, I stepped up in the House to ask:
On July 1, 2020, MP Jenny Kwan raises concerns on the newly passed Hong Kong Security Law. A draconian law against freedom of speech and basic human rights, it also ends the One Country Two System and violated the Sino-British Joint Declaration. The law not only affects people in Hong Kong but people around the world who criticize China or Hong Kong:
On June 18, 2020 in the Parliament, NDP MP Jenny Kwan asked whether people who followed the advice of Parliamentary Secretary Adam Vaughan to collect CERB would be penalized by Bill C-17:
At the Parliament's Standing Committee for Immigration on June 17, 2020, NDP MP Jenny Kwan asked the Immigration Minister to confirm that Temporary Foreign Worker who otherwise meet the eligibility criteria for CERB but have an expired SIN or expired work permits will not be criminalized for receiving the emergency assistance:
On June 17, 2020 at the Parliament's immigration committee, NDP MP Jenny Kwan asks the minister on the opening of the parent/grandparent immigration and whether Canada is working on a plan to take immigrant/refugees from Hong Kong:
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: