Hon. Larry W. Smith (Leader of the Opposition): Honourable senators, I rise today to also offer sincere congratulations to our two new colleagues, Honourable Pierre Dalphond and Honourable Donna Dasko, who were named to the Senate yesterday on ... Full Article

Hon. Larry W. Smith (Leader of the Opposition): I’d like to spend a few minutes. I studied regulations in the last few days, and I thought I could give some feedback that would be helpful for our whole group in terms of framing present and ... Full Article

Hon. Larry W. Smith (Leader of the Opposition): Honourable senators, I would also like to offer some words to welcome our new colleague in the Senate of Canada, the Honourable Senator Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia. On behalf of all Conservative ... Full Article

Hon. Larry W. Smith (Leader of the Opposition): Honourable senators, today we bid a fond farewell to a friend and colleague, the one and only Senator Nancy Greene Raine. Fifty years ago, she captured the imagination of Canadians by winning the ... Full Article

Hon. Larry W. Smith (Leader of the Opposition): Honourable Senators, today we have experienced a terrible loss within our parliamentary family. Gord Brown, Member of Parliament for Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes, passed ... Full Article

Hon. Larry W. Smith (Leader of the Opposition): Honourable senators, I rise today with a heavy heart to offer my deepest condolences to the victims and their families of the terrible incident that took place in Toronto yesterday. To the 10 ... Full Article

Hon. Larry W. Smith (Leader of the Opposition): I have some of the text, actually, that Senator Day spoke of. If I could make a comment to our senators here, one of the things I appreciated the most in coming into the Senate was having the ... Full Article

Hon. Larry W. Smith (Leader of the Opposition): Honourable senators, I rise today to speak to Bill C-45. Since the bill was passed in the other place, we have heard significant concerns from many of our colleagues of all parties and groups ... Full Article

Hon. Larry W. Smith (Leader of the Opposition): Honourable Senators, today we say goodbye to our colleague, Senator Claudette Tardif, after almost 13 years of public service in the Senate of Canada. Ever since she was appointed to this place in ... Full Article

Honourable Senators, I rise today to pay tribute to one of our own, a colleague who left us much too soon – the Honourable Tobias Enverga, Jr., who passed away suddenly on November 16th. Au cours de son passage de cinq ans au Sénat du Canada, ... Full Article