| M-95 — June 22, 2021 — — That: |
| (a) the House recognize that, |
| (i) a post-secondary degree is now the required level of education for many employment opportunities in Canada, but high tuition fees are leaving too many students unable to access an affordable education and burdened with enormous amounts of student debt, |
| (ii) the average debt owed by students upon graduating from a bachelor degree program is $28,000, and coupled with interest payments and the increasing cost of living, families are often burdened for decades, |
| (iii) in 2020-21, the same year Canadians were struggling with the economic downturn and high unemployment rates caused by the global pandemic, the average costs of tuition for respective undergraduate and graduate programs were $6,580 and $7,304 per year, reaching as high as $50,774 per year depending on the program, |
| (iv) during the pandemic, mental health challenges and dropout rates have risen in universities, colleges, and trade schools, |
| (v) on November 24, 2020, the House unanimously passed a motion recognizing the significant financial hardship that COVID-19 has caused to post-secondary students across Canada, |
| (vi) the government committed to waiving interest payments on the federal portion of student loans until March 2023, and budget 2021 states that waiving interest on student loans for an additional year would “ensure that the cost of post-secondary education in Canada remains predictable and affordable for everyone during the economic recovery”, but in reality no amount of interest deferrals would make the cost of post-secondary education affordable considering the average cost of tuition in Canada, |
| (vii) many Northern and Western European countries have built their knowledge-based economies on free post-secondary education, investing in their people to support a highly-educated workforce, including Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden; and |
| (b) in the opinion of the House, the government should eliminate all tuition fees for post-secondary education and forgive the portion of existing student debt that is held by the federal government. |
| M-96 — June 22, 2021 — — That: |
| (a) the House recognize that, |
| (i) industrial animal agriculture is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), |
| (ii) according to the Food and Agriculture Organization, the emissions impact of livestock alone represents 14.5 percent of all anthropogenic GHG emissions, |
| (iii) livestock emissions are methane emissions and thus especially damaging to our environment, as methane is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a GHG in the first ten years after it is released into the atmosphere, |
| (iv) industrial animal agriculture contributes significantly to climate change above and beyond the direct emissions impact of livestock, such as deforestation to create grazing land and grow feed crops and other land-use factors, |
| (v) the Canadian government currently provides substantial direct subsidies to the industrial animal agriculture industry, |
| (vi) livestock emissions and other animal agriculture industry emissions, unrelated to the use of fossil fuels on farms, are not currently covered under the provisions of the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act; and |
| (b) in the opinion of the House, the government should, |
| (i) phase out subsidies to industrial-scale animal agriculture, including for crops grown strictly for livestock feed, |
| (ii) revise the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act to bring the GHG emissions of the animal agriculture industry under its provisions. |
| M-97 — June 22, 2021 — — That, given that, |
| (i) Canadians with visual impairments can face significant difficulties in accessing critical product information including reading small-font product labels, |
| (ii) the Parliament of Canada through the passage of "Vanessa's Law" in 2015, as well as more recent efforts now being undertaken through Health Canada's "Self-Care Framework" initiative, has made the modernization of product labelling including the use of"plainlanguage" a priority, improvements in the labelling of consumer health products, as well as the use of digital labels, |
| (iii) digital labels offer opportunities to accommodate the needs of Canadians with visual impairments, as well as provide product information in languages other than Canada's official languages with which a consumer may be more familiar or comfortable, |
| (iv) advances in web-based technology is making digital labelling a growing reality for consumers, with various industry led initiatives providing consumers with expanded product information in more accessible and readable formats including enlargeable fonts, audioservices, and the use of multiple languages, |
| (v) digital labelling initiatives can further assist consumers in identifying counterfeit products, as well as other possible risks or dangers to their health and safety, |
| the House call upon the government: |
| (a) to encourage and enable the use next-generation digital product labeling technology, asappropriate, as part of Health Canada's ongoing product labeling modernization such that Canadian consumers can fully benefit from this technology in accessing information regarding ingredients, risks, and other relevant information pertaining to consumer safety, health and education; and |
| (b) to allow companies the choice to, in an incremental process that includes meaningful consultation with industry, utilize market-developed product label audio read-out technologies so Canadians with disabilities and language barriers can comprehend important safety measures such as product indications, contra-indications, risks, and uses in a digital format. |
| M-98 — June 22, 2021 — — That: |
| (a) the House recognize that, |
| (i) Canadians care deeply about the health of the ocean, and coastal communities depend on a thriving ocean ecosystem, |
| (ii) cruise ships generate significant amounts of pollutants that are harmful to human health, aquatic organisms and coastal ecosystems, |
| (iii) Canada's regulations under the Canada Shipping Act to control dumping and pollution from cruise ships are the weakest along the west coast of North America, |
| (iv) many vessels in Canadian waters employ Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems (EGCS) rather than switching to cleaner low-sulfur fuels, leading to an increase in other air pollutants such as particulate matter, black carbon and greenhouse gases, |
| (v) washwater produced by EGCS contains known carcinogens and heavy metals, and is highly thermal and acidic, |
| (vi) Canada’s less stringent regulations encourage cruise ships to discharge their waste off British Columbia, |
| (vii) Canada can mitigate the risks to human health and the environment and support a cleaner cruise industry by establishing world-class ocean protections; and |
| (b) in the opinion of the House the government should, |
| (i) prohibit vessels from using EGCS in Canadian waters and require vessels to use cleaner low-sulfur fuels instead, |
| (ii) set standards for cruise ship sewage and greywater discharges equivalent to or stronger than those in Alaska, |
| (iii) designate no-discharge zones to stop pollution in marine protected areas, the Salish and Great Bear Seas, and in critical habitat for threatened and endangered species, |
| (iv) require regular independent third-party monitoring while ships are underway to ensure discharge requirements are met. |