Eric Melillo

Support applying lawful interception powers to investigate foreign interference offences

Support strengthening sabotage laws to protect essential infrastructure from harmful acts

Oppose these public safety and policing appropriations

Oppose allocating these funds to the Administrative Tribunals Support Service, signaling objection to this tribunal funding

Voting Nay means opposing the additional funding for court administrative program expenditures, potentially slowing efforts to reduce backlogs or maintain services.

Support creation of new independent civilian oversight body for police and border officers

Support updating evidentiary rules to allow Commission proceedings to access necessary evidence

Voting Yea means supporting mandatory beneficial ownership disclosure and public availability of key ownership information to strengthen detection and prevention of criminal misuse of corporations (e.g., money laundering, illicit finance), and enable co-operation with provincial registries.

Voting Yea means supporting stronger criminal and administrative penalties and enforcement authority to ensure compliance with beneficial ownership rules and deter concealment of ownership tied to criminal activity.

Oppose the proposed policing and public safety funding in this appropriation Act.

Oppose providing these appropriations to the Administrative Tribunals Support Service.

Voting Yea means supporting a targeted change to the Criminal Code that creates a legal pathway for certain activities that might otherwise be treated as terrorist‑financing offences, with ministerial oversight and safeguards.

Oppose expanding public officer status to federal security employees

Oppose mandatory transfer/disposal pending court referral

Oppose broadening interception powers to include these offences

Oppose raising maximum sentences for weapons offences

Oppose new offences targeting computer data related to firearms

Oppose expanding ability to obtain emergency firearm prohibition orders

Oppose deeming additional firearms as prohibited devices

Oppose limiting licence eligibility based on protection orders/domestic violence convictions

Oppose creating a specific offence for magazine modification

Oppose the chosen commencement timing or coordination

Supports simultaneous bilingual publication of precedential federal decisions

Voting Yea means supporting a legal change to require judges to consider electronic monitoring as a release condition in intimate-partner violence cases, prioritizing victim safety in bail decisions and expanding explicit factors for pre-trial release.

Voting Yea means supporting mandatory judicial continuing education on intimate-partner violence, coercive control, sexual assault law, and related social context to improve judicial responses and fairness in such cases.

Oppose expanding criminal sanctions; prefer administrative penalties or alternative enforcement approaches

Voting Nay means opposing the legal authorization for these supplementary appropriations, which would block or delay the government's ability to spend the approved sums for 2022–23 as presented.

Melillo urges immediate federal support and funding to twin the Trans-Canada Highway in his region, calling the project critical for safety, the regional economy, and Canada’s economic sovereignty; he sponsored a local petition to that effect.

Voting Yea means supporting increased federal spending/transfers to provide targeted cost-of-living relief through larger and advance GSTC payments, accepting the fiscal cost to deliver near-term support.

Support government spending package for 2026

Eric Melillo criticizes the federal budget for increasing spending beyond prior deficit promises, saying it worsens the cost-of-living crisis in northern Ontario — driving up housing and grocery costs and undermining young Canadians’ prospects for home ownership.

Voting Nay means opposing enactment of the supplementary appropriations, which would block or delay the specific expenditures in the Supplementary Estimates (A).

Voting Yea means supporting legal protection for Canada's supply management import controls — preventing increases in tariff rate quotas or reductions in over‑quota tariffs for dairy, poultry and eggs to preserve domestic producer protection.

Voting Nay means rejecting the specific allocations and conditional authorities in the Supplementary Estimates (B), which would block those spending priorities and could disrupt departmental programs listed in the schedules.

Oppose government spending package for 2024

Oppose permitting Schedule 2 appropriations to be charged into the following fiscal year

Oppose this allocation, signaling objection to the Agency's 2024–25 funding

Oppose these CRA appropriations, objecting to the proposed revenue administration funding

Oppose these ESDC appropriations for unemployment and benefit programs

Voting Nay means rejecting the proposed allocation of supplementary funds and the particular spending priorities set out in the schedule.

Support clarifying appropriation and funding mechanics for the Commission

Support transitional arrangements to transfer staff and functions smoothly

Oppose enabling unilateral government funding that could influence regulator independence

Oppose creating licence-related revenue mechanisms for offshore renewable projects

Oppose expanding occupational safety regulation to cover offshore renewables

Oppose government spending package for 2023

Voting Yea means supporting measures that strengthen unions' bargaining power and strike effectiveness by banning many forms of replacement labour, enforcing timely dispute resolution, and protecting reinstatement rights.

Voting Yea means supporting tougher enforcement and deterrence to protect workers' rights during strikes/lockouts, including high fines and administrative penalties to discourage use of replacement labour and ensure reinstatement.

Voting Nay opposes new or ongoing federal expenditures created by the Act, or prefers those functions to be funded differently or not legislated.

Voting Nay opposes privileging union participation or legislative support for union-centric definitions of decent work.

Voting Nay opposes legislating specific job-creation planning or believes job creation should be left to market forces or other policy instruments.

Voting Nay opposes statutorily mandating worker protection measures tied to climate policy or finds the measures excessive/ineffective.

Oppose government spending package for 2025

Voting Nay means opposing tariff/customs changes required by the FTA, possibly to avoid reducing protection for domestic producers or changing tariff revenue structures.

Voting Nay means opposing the appropriation or payment of those operating costs, objecting to additional federal spending tied to the Agreement.

Voting Yea means supporting a temporary tax incentive to encourage construction of purpose-built rental housing by enhancing the GST rebate, with the aim of increasing rental supply and improving housing affordability.

Voting Yea means supporting a package of fiscal and regulatory actions intended to reduce household costs by stimulating rental supply and curbing anti-competitive/excessive pricing in essential markets.

Voting Yea means supporting stronger competition enforcement tools to prevent excessive and unfair selling prices, intended to protect consumers and address affordability pressures in essential markets (e.g., groceries).

Oppose CRA administrative appropriations included in this bill.

Oppose these appropriations to ACOA for operating and grant programs.

Oppose the ESDC funding allocations included in this appropriation Act.

Voting Nay means opposing the approval of these supplementary appropriations, which would block the government from legally drawing on the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the specified additional expenditures in 2023–24.

Voting Nay means opposing the targeted additional spending for CMHC reimbursements and related housing program expenditures included in this appropriation.

Voting Yea means supporting the federal prioritization of ongoing public spending to create and sustain a Canada-wide early learning and child care system and the use of federal funds to achieve accessibility, affordability and quality targets.

Voting Yea means supporting federal policy that prioritizes improving labor conditions, recruitment and retention in the early childhood education workforce as part of child care reform.

Oppose government spending package for 2023

Supports central oversight by Treasury Board for official-languages policy and compliance

Supports public reporting and employee information on language compliance

Supports statutory language protections for employees and consumers in federally regulated private businesses

Supports establishing complaint and referral mechanisms for workplace language rights

Supports statutory protections for workers who exercise language rights and measures to foster French

Voting Yea means supporting a targeted income tax deduction that reduces taxable income for mobile trades workers required to pay their own travel costs, increasing their after-tax income and treating these travel costs as business-related deductions.

Voting Yea means supporting a policy that protects mobile workers financially by offsetting travel costs through the tax system, improving equity for tradespersons required to travel long distances for work.

Voting Yea means supporting measures to protect firefighters as workers — improved prevention, recognition of occupational cancers, standards review, screening and support for worker health.

Voting Yea means supporting the accompanying tax-law changes needed to integrate the Canada disability benefit into the federal tax and transfer framework.

Voting Yea means supporting the creation of a new federal spending program to reduce poverty among working-age persons with disabilities and backing federal prioritization of income supports and related administrative arrangements.

Voting Nay means opposing state-mediated resolution of platform-news commercial disputes, arguing it could distort markets, overstep regulatory roles, or provoke retaliatory platform measures (e.g., delisting content).

Voting Nay means opposing legislated bargaining/arbitration between platforms and news businesses on grounds that it may interfere with private commercial arrangements, impose regulatory burdens, risk content restrictions or have unintended effects on platform services and freedom of expression.

Oppose increased administrative and reporting burdens on trusts

Oppose a targeted one-time tax on large financial institutions

Oppose providing a new large tax credit for mineral exploration

Oppose recharacterizing short-term housing gains, favoring current capital gains treatment

Oppose creating a new tax-preferred savings account for home purchases

Oppose authorizing requisitions from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for this purpose

Oppose interest suspension due to fiscal cost or moral hazard concerns

Voting Nay means opposing the additional appropriations as presented, potentially signaling disagreement with the spending priorities, amounts, or the use of Supplementary Estimates to authorize these payments.

Voting Nay means opposing federal-mandated coordination aimed at job creation tied to the green transition in Prairie regions.

Voting Yea means supporting stronger legal protection for pension plan beneficiaries and retirees by prioritizing payment of unfunded pension liabilities and requiring transparency on plan solvency; it favors shifting some financial risks back onto employers/insolvency estates and increasing oversight of pension funding.

Voting Nay means opposing the associated tax-law amendments—potentially due to objections to the underlying benefits, concerns about fiscal or administrative implications, or disagreement with how the tax code is being adjusted.

Voting Nay means opposing this targeted federal relief—possibly due to concerns about fiscal cost, effectiveness, targeting accuracy, or preferring longer-term housing policy solutions.

Voting Yea means supporting a targeted cash-transfer-style response to ease immediate cost-of-living pressures for vulnerable households.

Voting Nay means opposing the specific amendments due to concerns about unintended impacts on production, administrative complexity, or potential negative effects on employers/platforms and content investment.

Oppose government spending package for 2022

Oppose funding the Administrative Tribunals Support Service or its recoverable CPP/EI-related expenditures for 2022–23

Oppose expanding the travel deduction; prefer existing limits or alternative support mechanisms

Oppose targeted refundable returns of fuel charge proceeds to farmers; prefer broad carbon pricing or other supports

Oppose creating a refundable ventilation tax credit and additional fiscal outlays for businesses

Oppose limiting recovery timeframes for CEBA amounts; prefer retaining longer recovery rights

Oppose capping EI weeks for seasonal workers; prefer preserving current benefit durations or more generous support

Voting Nay means opposing these specific allocations and the prioritization of funding to the listed agencies and purposes in the Supplementary Estimates (C).

Oppose extending the federal wage subsidy program beyond its prior expiry.

Oppose allowing extension of subsidy programs by regulation; prefer legislative changes only.

Oppose mandating this specific audit if seen as duplicative or politically motivated.

Oppose the budgetary amendment if it improperly authorizes spending or lacks oversight.

Oppose expanding leave entitlements that may impose additional burdens on federally regulated employers.

Oppose establishing a new federal lockdown benefit program.

Oppose these health appropriations, rejecting the proposed funding levels

Voting Nay means opposing federal transfer commitments or the conditional agreement-based funding model, or arguing for different fiscal arrangements.

Voting Nay means opposing the federal funding/conditional approach for expanding public drug coverage (or objecting to specified coverage mandates like first‑dollar or targeted drug categories).

Voting Nay means opposing the federal commitments or interventions aimed at reducing prescription costs, or disputing funding priorities (e.g., rare disease focus).

Voting Nay means opposing formal federal involvement in initiating/structuring national universal pharmacare as set out in the Act or preferring alternative approaches to drug coverage implementation.

Voting Nay means opposing federal-led bulk purchasing or centralized approaches to influence drug prices, preferring market-based or provincial solutions.

Voting Nay means opposing federally-driven standardization of drug lists or national formulary development, preferring provincial autonomy over coverage lists.

Voting Nay means opposing the push for federally supported universal pharmacare or specific coverage mechanisms that would standardize access across provinces/territories.

Voting Nay means opposing the supplementary grants to CIHR, possibly demanding reallocation or scrutiny of health research expenditures.

Voting Yea means supporting a temporary prohibition on MAiD for people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness, endorsing a precautionary approach and a parliamentary review process before potentially extending eligibility.

Voting Nay means opposing the advertising ban due to concerns about regulatory overreach, impacts on commercial speech and industry (including trademark use), potential economic effects on food and beverage companies, or believing voluntary industry measures are preferable.

Oppose the proposed federal health appropriations in this Act.

Voting Yea means supporting a federal approach that uses transfers and agreements with provinces to fund and coordinate early learning and child care services nationally.

Oppose adding environmental preconditions that could restrict drug-related activities

Voting Nay means opposing the additional appropriations for CIHR and the related expansion of the healthcare-related budget allocations in this Act.

Voting Yea means supporting federal leadership to improve availability of health services related to occupational cancers for firefighters — funding/coordination for research, screening guidance, data collection, training of providers, and public awareness measures.

Voting Nay means opposing this specific federal spending approach—possibly on grounds of cost, preferring permanent universal coverage, provincial responsibility for dental care, or different program design.

Voting Yea means supporting recognition of private health insurance purchased outside Canada for visitor visa eligibility, which may reduce pressure on provincial health plans and enable extended family visits.

Oppose authorizing federal payments for proof-of-vaccination initiatives; raise concerns about cost or scope