13/10/2023 | 13:15:07 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Colleagues: By now, all of us are familiar with the state of public institutions in Russia where democratic hopes raised by the collapse of communism have been overwhelmed by a quarter century of corruption masquerading as a free market and repression standing in for governance. We know that Putin has been continuously in power as President or Prime Minister of Russia since 2000 and the amendments brought to the Russian Constitution in 2020... 11/10/2023 | 20:03:40 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) As we are all aware, the electronic devices used to perform our parliamentary duties, and make our lives easier, can also be used to collect information about us to a degree that is hard to imagine. The use of so-called “spyware” can enable bad actors – private citizens, corporations or hostile governments – to capture information from unsuspecting victims’ phones and other devices, information they can use against the users of these devices... 22/06/2023 | 20:07:15 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) In 2014, when Russia violated Ukraine’s territory, we felt directly involved in Canada because of our close bilateral relationship with Ukraine. In the years that followed, Russia used disinformation campaigns, hybrid and cyber operations, and military build-ups in and around Ukraine to try to destabilize the country in the lead-up to its full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022. On another front, Russia has been providing diplomatic... 20/06/2023 | 16:47:51 Following the fixed presidential election of August 2020, Canada imposed sanctions against the illegitimate government in Belarus. These sanctions stem from the Canadian government’s opinion that gross human rights violations have been committed in Belarus and it was obviously not a fair election. They are also a reaction to Belarus’s support of Russia’s war invasion of Ukraine, which is a grave breach of international peace and security that has resulted in a serious international crisis... 19/06/2023 | 17:37:20 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Honourable colleagues, On 14 May 2023 – and then again, on 28 May 2023 – almost nine out of 10 Turks voted in parliamentary and presidential elections. In Canada, we’ve never come close to that level of voter turnout, so I congratulate the Turkish people on exercising their democratic right to cast a ballot. I’ll also take this opportunity to echo Prime Minister Trudeau in congratulating the President of Türkiye on his re-election. As... 28/04/2023 | 11:47:23 Thank you, Mister President. I would like to thank the rapporteur for her report, which highlights important trends in information sharing. In my remarks I would like to address social media bias. With the increased adoption of media platforms as such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok, the consumption of news has shifted from the more legacy-media space to digital spaces. A recent report from a Statistics Canada survey found that in our country the most common method for following news... 27/04/2023 | 20:04:05 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) The economist Dani Rodrik has argued that globalization – a critical component of which is trade liberalization – only allows the nation-state to choose one of two other policy goals: national sovereignty or democratic accountability. What Rodrik has called the “political trilemma of the world economy” is alive and well in the debate we’re having today. To paraphrase Rapporteur Davies’ report, a “wave of trade agreements has increasingly... 27/04/2023 | 20:03:05 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Thank you for the opportunity to speak here today on this urgent topic. Nineteen thousand, three hundred and eighty-four. That is the recorded number of children that the Ukrainian government estimates have been deported since the start of the war. Nineteen thousand, three hundred and eighty-four children deported, each one a war crime. But Russia’s crimes against Ukrainian civilians sadly do not stop there. Since the start of Russia’s... 14/10/2022 | 13:22:34 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Honourable colleagues, Today, I would like to use the time I have in this free debate to discuss the impact on global food security of the unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation. Russia’s actions in Ukraine have been directly impacting innocent civilians daily for over six months. And while Russia’s war has further compromised them, global supply chains were already struggling after more than two years of the... 13/10/2022 | 12:00:54 Thank you Chair, The Canadian delegation appreciates the opportunity to participate in these meetings, as it allows us to keep up to date on events in Europe and exchange information regarding, among other things, the war in Ukraine. It is now clear that, when Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th, it was setting out to destroy the nationhood and the statehood of an independent country in Europe. It did so in complete violation of international law. Canadians, like people the world over...