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MP for Beaches-East York, host of podcast

Beaches-East York, Toronto
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Joined October 2013
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Nov 13

    Guy Eisnor was a local D-Day veteran. I was lucky to spend time and play cribbage with him after a D-Day event last year, and then had the honour of recognizing his service in the House of Commons. Mr. Eisnor passed away on Remembrance Day this year.

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  2. 19 hours ago

    “Until there is not a single Indian in Canada.” - Duncan Campbell Scott, who oversaw the residential school system. Assimilation and the destruction of culture were its goals. Not education.

    NEW: Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole told a group of students residential schools were created to “try and provide education,” and became “horrible.”
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  3. Retweeted
    Dec 15

    Some thoughts about the rising cost of food in : “Charitable handouts can’t hope to be an adequate response to the tsunami of need. This is because food insecurity is not about a lack of food. It is about a lack of income.”

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  4. Retweeted
    Dec 15

    Moderna vaccine for COVID-19 will likely be here by end of month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says via

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  5. Retweeted
    Dec 14

    - The first dose of Covid-19 vaccine has just been administered in Ontario to Anita Quidangen, a personal support worker. Anita has been working at the Rekai Centre since 1988. She worked tirelessly throughout the COVID-19 outbreak, oftentimes doing double shifts.

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  6. Dec 14

    As elected representatives, we all need to use our platforms to emphasize the science and to build trust in our communities for the vaccination process. I hope this op-ed in our local helps towards those goals.

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  7. Dec 14

    "To succeed, we need all levels of government to work together on a rapid delivery, and we need to educate our family, friends, and neighbours about the safety and importance of protecting each other through vaccines."

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  8. Dec 14

    "In taking the 2030 climate goals seriously, and choosing carbon pricing to achieve them, Ottawa is making the right move, rather than the easy move."

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  9. Retweeted
    Dec 13

    Welcoming the 1st to 🇨🇦 tonight! The 1st 30K doses of are arriving across the country tonight & tomorrow ➡️ initial deliveries of 🇨🇦’s 20M doses of this vaccine. While we have a long way to go, this marks the beginning of our bridge to recovery.

    , , and 2 others
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  10. Retweeted
    Dec 13

    The absence of a carbon tax is a market failure that works as a redistribution from low GHG emitters to high GHG emitters.

    The carbon tax is a redistribution scheme from rural Canadians to urban Canadians.
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  11. Dec 13

    Nice recognition from for my animal advocacy in parliament. We’ve made progress since 2015, including laws to address animal abuse, the shark fin trade, and cetaceans in captivity. But there’s much more to be done, and I’ll keep working at it.

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  12. Dec 12

    I should add that the Conservatives also know the proposed incremental annual increase of $15/tonne will kick in after 2022. I hope the eventual Conservative climate plan is more serious than this, and isn’t just a few sentences in all caps.

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  13. Dec 12

    Carbon pricing works. MPs know that the funds generated are almost all returned to people directly via a tax credit. Independent analysis has shown most Canadians receive more than they pay. And here’s the considered response from the Conservative Party of Canada:

    Now we know how the Liberals will pay for their massive deficits. Trudeau announced the Carbon Tax is going from $50 to $170. That’s over 300%. Hang on to your wallets!
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  14. Retweeted
    Dec 12

    Vaccines are arriving in 🇨🇦. We continue to ensure that provinces & territories have the supplies needed to accept & administer through the and ’s procurements to ensure that 🇨🇦ians have access to vaccines as early as possible, on a priority basis.

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  15. Retweeted
    Dec 11

    I didn't think I'd be typing "bold move" or "serious and well-thought out plan" today, but here we are (though of course I still have some suggestions for improvement). Now to deal with the inevitable backlash from oil lobby and its allies...

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  16. Retweeted
    Dec 12
    Replying to

    Personally, I'm very forgiving of ur spelling but less so of the shoddy journalism in reporting the details of Canada's climate plan. The tax & dividend approach is the "gold standard" of pricing policies & Canada should b praised 4 this innovative approach-thank u

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  17. Dec 12

    It’s not the final step towards the ambition we need, but it is a serious and credible plan and marks important progress.

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    Dec 11

    "Let's remember that science is not a pick and choose buffet. If we trust scientists with our health... then we must also trust their research and their expertise when it comes to other existential threats: and that includes climate change."

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  19. Retweeted
    Dec 11

    It's no secret that I joined this team because I strongly believed that we needed to do more to address climate change. Today we make good on that promise. ✅🇨🇦

    , and
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  20. Retweeted
    Dec 11

    Modeling of the federal climate plan indicates a 31% reduction below 2005 levels by 2030. Officials say that’s likely conservative. Why? For starters, it presumes no new or stronger provincial/territorial efforts in the next decade. 1/

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    Dec 11

    Great article:"...why [is it] such a big deal that two MPs chose to vote their conscience on a difficult issue.Why has our parl system become one of the most rigidly partisan in the world? What has tiled our politics so far in the direction of conformity?"

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