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House of Commons · September 22, 2025

House of Commons: Routine Proceedings — Offender Rehabilitation Act

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-240, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, to make related amendments to the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to introduce the proposed offender rehabilitation… Read more

act. The bill seeks to address one of the most urgent and heartbreaking crises facing Canadian families: the devastating impact of substance addiction. Canadians see the toll: lives are lost; families are shattered; and public safety is eroded. Our justice system must do more than punish. It must also heal. The bill would empower courts to prescribe structured rehabilitation measures, including education, skills training and treatment programs, to be undertaken during custody. These are not soft-on-crime measures. They are smart-on-recovery interventions. The bill would strength the Corrections and Conditional Release Act to ensure that rehabilitation objectives are considered during parole decisions, and it would amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to treat large-scale fentanyl trafficking as an aggravating factor, reflecting the gravity of the harm inflicted in our communities. I look forward to working with all members of the House to restore dignity, health and hope to those caught in the cycle of addiction. (Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)

House of Commons · September 17, 2025

House of Commons

Thank you for that. You mentioned the bureaucratic process. What I'm hearing from our community right now is that to receive funding, to be a part of funding, they have to get through a very bureaucratic process. Instead of going through the bureaucratic process, is there a way… Read more

that you think we should focus on being more industry-focused and monetization-focused for tech sectors like Kitchener?

House of Commons · September 17, 2025

House of Commons

Thank you, Chair. Thank you to everybody for coming today. Thank you for your expertise. I'm from Kitchener. We are home to world-class innovation. Our innovation ecosystem is unmatched. What I see within our ecosystem, though, is some cutting-edge technology not reaching mon… Read more

etization, number one, and number two, not staying within Canada when it does. To that end, $62 billion of net investment left Canada in the past five months. Mr. Doyle, my questions will be for you today. One of your SMART centres is located right in my community. Thank you for coming with your expertise today. First, how does the current spending support real technology adoption through monetization, which is vital in tech hubs like Kitchener?

House of Commons · September 15, 2025

House of Commons

Thank you very much for your answer. Second, what improvements do you think can be made to ensure that our federal research funding programs are flexible enough to captivate community-focused research happening in local innovation hubs, such as mine in particular in Kitchener? H… Read more

ow do we not rely on publishing to fund and start to rely more on innovating to fund?

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