Mario Simard

Support applying lawful interception powers to investigate foreign interference offences

Support strengthening sabotage laws to protect essential infrastructure from harmful acts

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 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.

Support appropriations for public safety programs and police funding.

Support authorizing program funding for administrative tribunal operations.

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.

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

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

Support federal appropriations to Health Canada and health transfers for 2024–25

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 Yea means approving additional federal funding to support health research and CIHR program commitments for the fiscal year.

Voting Nay means opposing the temporary exclusion and review requirement — either supporting immediate eligibility for MAiD for persons with sole mental illness on grounds of individual autonomy and equal access, or opposing further restrictions/delays.

Voting Yea means supporting new federal limits on commercial marketing of unhealthy foods to children to protect physical and mental health, reduce childhood obesity, and empower regulators to define and enforce advertising standards.

Support federal funding to provinces for hospital and health program needs.

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.

Support environmental pre‑assessment requirements before certain drug activities proceed

Voting Yea means supporting the additional federal funding for health research and CIHR’s operating/grant activities included in these supplementary estimates.

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