Ms. Chris Charlton (Hamilton Mountain, NDP): Mr. Speaker, there are hundreds of people on Hamilton Mountain engaged in the fight to save public health care and to ensure access to high-quality health services for Canadians wherever they live.
Ms. Chris Charlton (Hamilton Mountain, NDP): Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to table a petition in the House today on behalf of dozens of members from my community of Hamilton Mountain on CIDA's role in funding Canadian private sector extractive projects and financial support for the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace.
Ms. Chris Charlton (Hamilton Mountain, NDP): Mr. Speaker, I am thrilled to table a petition today that was signed by dozens of people from Prince Edward Island who are profoundly upset about the government's ill-considered changes to the employment insurance program.
February 13, 2013
Ms. Chris Charlton (Hamilton Mountain, NDP): Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to table a petition in the House today in support of Bill C-400, an Act to ensure secure, adequate, accessible and affordable housing for Canadians.
Nearly one and a half million households are in core housing need in our country, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights acknowledges that affordable housing is a fundamental right and not a privilege.
Ms. Chris Charlton (Hamilton Mountain, NDP): Mr. Speaker, Canada's Experimental Lakes Area is a unique, world renown facility for freshwater research and education. It is now falling under the Conservative axe, and petitioners from across the country are fighting to have that decision reversed.
