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Hello everyone. Earlier today, we received the job report for April. These numbers tell us what we already knew – that right now, Canadians are hurting because of this pandemic.

Hello everyone. I want to begin with a few words about the terrible helicopter crash that claimed the lives of six Canadian Armed Forces members last week. Yesterday, I attended a ceremony in their honour. I was grateful to have an opportunity to pay my respects.

Mr. Speaker, Between the outbreak of war in September 1939, and the Allied Victory in Europe on May 8, 1945, more than one million Canadians served in our country’s armed forces. More than 43,000 lives were lost.

Hello everyone. Before we get started, I want to note that today marks the 75th anniversary of the Liberation of the Netherlands. On this day, we remember the Canadians and Newfoundlanders who liberated the Netherlands from the tyranny of the Nazis.

Hello everyone. In the fight against COVID-19, our focus will always be here at home. But this is a global challenge. To keep Canadians safe and restart our economy, we need to defeat this virus not just within our borders, but wherever it will be found.

I want to start by recognizing that today marks the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic.

On December 6, 1989, I was in Montreal, at the CEGEP just down the hill from the École Polytechnique. I can’t tell you what I was studying that day. But I will never forget the moment I heard the first news reports of a massacre at the École Polytechnique.

Good morning. I grew up on a farm in northern Alberta. We had guns on our farm and we still do. As on many farms across our country. If there were bears around, my dad would keep a gun in his truck.

Hello everyone. Yesterday, a Canadian Armed Forces helicopter on a NATO mission, carrying six members of the Canadian Armed Forces, went down with all hands in the Ionian Sea, off the coast of Greece. They were flying from the Canadian naval frigate HMCS Fredericton, home port of Halifax, as part of Operation REASSURANCE. 

Hello everyone. Students are usually eager for May to come. Classes have ended, and you only have a couple of exams left. You’re looking forward to starting your summer job and spending more time with your friends.