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40th PARLIAMENT, 2nd SESSION
CONTENTS
Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Status of Women, TB Prevention and Microfinancing in Bangladesh

Ms. Judy Wasylycia-Leis (Winnipeg North, NDP):
Mr. Speaker, who among us was not horrified by the revelations brought to the House by the member for New Westminster—Coquitlam about the Karzai Afghan regime's plans to subordinate and subjugate women? Not only is this deeply disturbing in terms of human rights but also in terms of the lost potential it represents.

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Monday, March 30, 2009

UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Ms. Judy Wasylycia-Leis (Winnipeg North, NDP):
Mr. Speaker, today marks the second anniversary of the signing of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, yet the government refuses to ratify this convention despite the support of Canadians and a unanimous motion passed by the House.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MARCH 26, 2009

NEW DEMOCRAT BILL TO STOP PLAN TO LURE YOUNG SMOKERS

OTTAWA – Today New Democrat Health critic Judy Wasylycia-Leis (Winnipeg North) introduced a bill to close loopholes in the Tobacco Act by tightening requirements on labelling, packaging and the sale of flavoured tobacco products.

OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD)
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Debate - Bill C-10

Ms. Judy Wasylycia-Leis (Winnipeg North, NDP):
Madam Speaker, this is just about my last opportunity to try to convince my colleagues in the Liberal Party to change their minds about a fundamental human right which is at stake in this budget implementation bill.

OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD)
Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Budget Debate – Bill C-10

Ms. Judy Wasylycia-Leis (Winnipeg North, NDP):
Madam Speaker, I am pleased to participate in the debate on this group of amendments to Bill C-10, the budget implementation bill. I believe it would be appropriate at this point to actually recap where we are, so Canadians understand just how significant this debate is and how we are at a defining moment in the life of our country.

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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Ms. Judy Wasylycia-Leis (Winnipeg North, NDP): Mr. Speaker, I want to commend my colleague from the Bloc Québécois for introducing this motion and for her passion today on a very important matter. I want to continue with the theme of the attack on pay equity as very much an expression of symbolic violence against women. Whether it is physical or psychological, the damage is felt.

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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Ms. Judy Wasylycia-Leis (Winnipeg North, NDP): Mr. Speaker, today I rise with more sadness and concern than I have experienced in my 20 years in elected public office and my 30 years of fighting for women's equality.

Yesterday the Liberals gave a blank cheque to the Conservatives to kill pay equity. They sold out their principles. They let down the women of Canada. They decided to sacrifice pay equity on the altar of political expediency.

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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Pay Equity

Mme Judy Wasylycia-Leis (Winnipeg-Nord, NPD): Monsieur le Président, nous savons que les conservateurs ont de la misère avec les chiffres. En novembre, ils ont fait des prévisions qui ne tenaient pas la route et ils en ont profité pour tenter de sauver de l'argent sur le dos des femmes.

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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Pay Equity

Ms. Judy Wasylycia-Leis (Winnipeg North, NDP):
Mr. Speaker, yesterday the President of the Treasury Board misled the House by suggesting a resemblance between Manitoba and the Conservative government on pay equity.

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Monday, February 9, 2009

Bill C-10 – Budget Implimentation Act - Conservatives' Attack on Pay Equity for Women

Ms. Judy Wasylycia-Leis (Winnipeg North, NDP): Madam Speaker, I do not believe my colleagues in the Liberal Party really understand what is at stake here. If it was not apparent before either in the doomed economic statement of November 27 or the recent budget, then it should be clear now based on what is in this legislation, Bill C-10, the budget implementation act.