Jenny Kwan

Jenny Kwan opposed the government’s proposed crime and border-related measures, joining refugee and human-rights advocates to urge MPs not to pass those bills — including proposals for stricter bail and restored mandatory minimums — as harmful to vulnerable people.

Support applying lawful interception powers to investigate foreign interference offences

Support strengthening sabotage laws to protect essential infrastructure from harmful acts

Support increasing and clarifying CSIS data collection and exploitation authorities for intelligence work

Support federal appropriations for police funding and public safety programs

Support providing the Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada with the authorized funding for tribunal operations

Voting Yea means supporting additional funding for court administration to maintain or improve court operations and address operational pressures.

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 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 Yea means supporting a narrowly tailored exception that balances consumer repair needs with security by limiting circumvention to sole-purpose maintenance and excluding infringing acts, thereby enabling legitimate repair without wholesale removal of protections.

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.

Support appropriations for public safety programs and police funding.

Voting Nay means opposing adding exceptions/authorizations to existing offences; concerns may include weakening anti‑terrorism prohibitions or preferring alternative safeguards.

Support new import restrictions to control ammunition and parts entry

Support designating federal security staff as public officers

Support requiring custody or disposal of firearms during court referrals

Support expanding interception scope for weapons-related investigations

Support increasing maximum penalties for serious weapons offences

Support criminalizing harmful firearm-related digital information

Support enabling emergency orders to restrict firearm access for safety

Support classifying certain firearms as prohibited devices

Support restricting licences for those subject to protection orders or domestic violence convictions

Support criminal penalties for modifying magazines to increase capacity

Support coordinated commencement to implement related firearms provisions effectively

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.

Voting Yea means supporting formal authorization of the supplementary appropriations and enabling the federal government to legally spend the listed amounts for 2022–23 as set out in the Supplementary Estimates (A).

Voting Yea means supporting a statutory increase in GST/HST credit amounts and the creation of deemed-payment mechanisms to deliver larger and periodic GSTC transfers to eligible low- and modest-income individuals and families (including shared-custody parent adjustments).

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

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 Yea means endorsing the specific spending choices and departmental allocations set out in the Supplementary Estimates (B), allowing those priorities to be funded.

Support government spending package for 2024

Support necessary consequential pension/appointment adjustments for new statutory officeholders

Support authority for Schedule 2 multi-year charging and ordering provisions

Support regional economic development funding for Atlantic Canada under the Act

Support appropriations to maintain tax administration and compliance capacity

Support funding for federal employment and benefit programs administered by ESDC

Support federal investment in energy infrastructure and related programs

Support funding for sustainable transportation and transit initiatives

Voting Yea means endorsing the government's specified allocation of supplementary funds and the spending priorities identified in the schedule.

Voting Yea means approving additional resources and authorities for agricultural programs and administrative functions (including AgriStability), supporting farm income stabilization and related research/operations.

Voting Yea means supporting federal funding for cultural institutions and heritage programs that contribute to Canada's cultural sovereignty and national identity.

Support clarifying appropriation and funding mechanics for the Commission

Support transitional arrangements to transfer staff and functions smoothly

Support expanding worker safety protections to offshore renewable energy workers

Support 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 Yea supports allocating federal funds to implement a statutory framework for a fair net-zero transition including administrative bodies and programmatic supports.

Voting Yea endorses explicit inclusion of unions and collective representation in transition planning and advisory structures.

Voting Yea favors government-led, planned efforts to promote job creation tied to the low-carbon transition.

Voting Yea supports legislated attention to protecting workers from adverse impacts of decarbonization and providing transition assistance.

Support government spending package for 2025

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).

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.

Support funding to ensure CRA can administer and enforce income tax laws.

Support funding for regional economic development and job-creation programs in Atlantic Canada.

Support appropriations enabling delivery of employment supports and benefits.

Support authorizing program funding for administrative tribunal operations.

Voting Yea means supporting targeted supplementary spending to support federal housing measures administered through CMHC, enabling reimbursements and program expenditures identified in the Supplementary Estimates.

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.

Support government spending package for 2023

Supports establishing complaint and referral mechanisms for workplace language rights

Voting Yea means supporting additional appropriations to fund the regulator’s oversight and administration of energy infrastructure as specified in the supplementary estimates.

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 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 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.

Support enhanced reporting to reduce tax avoidance via trusts

Support imposing a temporary surcharge on very large financial groups to recoup excess profits

Support targeted tax credit to boost critical mineral exploration in Canada

Support treating short-term housing dispositions as business income to limit quick speculative gains

Support new tax-advantaged vehicle to help first-time homebuyers save

Support enabling government capitalization and governance for Canada Growth Fund

Support eliminating interest accrual for students and apprentices to reduce borrower burdens

Voting Yea means supporting the government's allocation of additional funds to cover departmental and program expenses set out in the Supplementary Estimates (B) for 2022–23.

Voting Yea means supporting federal funding for national cultural institutions to maintain cultural programming, arts support, and public broadcasting services.

Voting Yea means supporting federal action to create jobs and training opportunities tied to green-economy projects in the Prairies.

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 Yea means approving the enabling tax-law changes needed to implement the benefits and their administration under existing federal tax/excise frameworks.

Voting Yea means supporting direct, targeted federal assistance to reduce household rental cost pressures as a response to rising cost of living.

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

Voting Yea means supporting measures that align artists' labour protections and bargaining frameworks with the updated broadcasting/streaming environment, potentially strengthening creators' negotiating position and access to remuneration.

Support government spending package for 2022

Support providing the agency with the appropriated operating funds and authority to make recoverable CPP/EI expenditures for 2022–23

Support expanding tax relief for northern residents by increasing optional travel expense claims

Support compensating farming businesses in backstop jurisdictions for fuel charge impacts via a refundable credit

Support providing direct financial support to businesses for ventilation upgrades via a refundable tax credit

Support capping the recovery period for CEBA loan amounts, providing certainty for borrowers and administrators

Support clarifying and limiting EI benefit durations for certain seasonal workers to adjust program parameters

Support strengthening criminal penalties to deter and address deliberate non-compliance with new tax rules

Voting Yea means endorsing the specific spending priorities and allocations to the named departments and Crown corporations, allowing these programs and payments to proceed.

Voting Yea means supporting federal funding for national museums and institutions that preserve and present Canadian historical narratives and human rights education.

Jenny Kwan says she is concerned about obtaining entry to Israel and the occupied West Bank, expecting Israeli-controlled access could create obstacles during the delegation’s trip; she warned that "at any juncture, anything could happen" regarding travel and access.

Voting Yea means supporting the allocation of operating funds and commitment authorities necessary for DND to continue its operations and obligations.

Voting Yea means endorsing capital and procurement spending for DND, enabling acquisition and transfer of equipment and related defence projects.

Voting Yea means approving dedicated funding and authorities for CSE operations and cybersecurity work outlined in the Supplementary Estimates.

Voting Yea means supporting a legal limit on the government's ability to make trade negotiation concessions on supply‑managed products, signalling priority for domestic agricultural protections over negotiated market access.

Support allocating funds for Canada's military spending and operations

Support controlled mechanisms for Commission access to classified material with safeguards

Support creating legal framework to manage transboundary hydrocarbon fields under bilateral agreements

Voting Yea means supporting extra funding to maintain or enhance intelligence and security capabilities funded through CSIS.

Voting Yea means supporting legislative tariff and customs changes necessary to implement the FTA and facilitate preferential trade between Canada and Ukraine.

Voting Yea means supporting the appropriation and payment of Canada's share of institutional and administrative costs arising from implementing the FTA.

Voting Yea means supporting formal parliamentary approval and domestic implementation of the Canada–Ukraine Free Trade Agreement to enable preferential market access and obligations under the FTA.

Voting Yea means supporting incorporation of FTA dispute settlement and arbitration procedures into domestic law so trade disputes with Ukraine can be resolved under the Agreement's mechanisms.

Voting Yea means supporting a regulatory expectation that Canadian companies operating in Ukraine follow the Agreement's principles and guidelines on responsible conduct.

Voting Yea means supporting the statutory update to domestically implement the 2023 Canada–Ukraine FTA and repeal the earlier implementation act.

Voting Yea means supporting clearer and potentially stricter criteria for trade‑agreement investor status and tighter timing/notice rules to ensure trade partners’ investors are appropriately screened under Canada’s national security framework.

Voting Yea means supporting stronger legal frameworks for sharing and protecting sensitive information between Canadian authorities and foreign counterparts as part of investment screening and for empowering ministers to impose interim measures to protect national security.

Voting Yea means supporting enhanced transparency and inter-jurisdictional information sharing to help detect and prevent terrorist financing and other security threats that exploit opaque corporate ownership.

Support appropriations sustaining foreign aid programs and diplomatic operations.

Voting Nay means opposing the approach if one believes it insufficiently protects against sanction violations or conversely that it cedes too much to international bodies.

Voting Nay means opposing a framework perceived to create loopholes in counter‑terrorism enforcement or arguing current laws should remain stricter without ministerial authorizations.

Voting Nay means opposing statutory exceptions or special authorizations for humanitarian aid on grounds they may inadvertently aid terrorists or be inadequately safeguarded.

Supports promoting both official languages in Canada’s diplomatic activities

Support increased capacity to provide international financial assistance under Bretton Woods instruments