Dennis has been a frequent guest at the annual meetings of the Saskatoon and District Labour Council. He was invited to speak to the SDLC in February 2001, two months after he was defeated in the election of November 2000. He talked about the election, but also about labour’s key role in the community.
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The World March of Women against poverty was undertaken in the year 2000 to bring attention to women’s poverty and the continuing discrimination that they experienced. Dennis made these comments in support of a Bloc Quebecois motion of solidarity with the women’s march.
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Mr. Dennis Gruending (Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar, NDP): Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for Mercier for her …

The Liberal government attempted to change the Canada Transportation Act just before the House of Commons rose for the summer in June 2000. Dennis and Dick Proctor, MP for Palliser and the NDP agriculture critic, had analyzed the bill’s impact on the rail transportation of grain. Both spoke to oppose a bill that would reduce …

In May 2000 Dennis had alerted Canadians that a ship loaded with PCBs and headed from an American military base in Japan to Canada. As a result that ship was sent back to Japan. In the following speech in June, Dennis raised an array of issues related to environmental degradation
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In May 2000 Dennis rose in the House of Common to alert Canadians that a ship loaded with PCBs was headed to Canada from an American military base in Japan. The fear was that the waste would be buried in Canada. After raising questions for a number of days, Dennis made this speech and was …

Species of animals and plants are disappearing from the earth at an alarming rate. The Liberal government had tried and failed to pass a bill aimed at protecting those species. The bill came back in 2000 and Dennis, as the NDP environment critic, made this speech outlining his and the party’s position. 
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Mr. Dennis Gruending (Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar, …

In March 2000, an expert panel reported on the future of Canada’s national parks. That panel called for the re-establishment of ecological integrity as the guiding principle for parks management in the future. In his remarks, Dennis reflected on the importance of that goal, and made specific reference to Prince Albert National Park.
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The world’s best scientists have been warning for years that the world’s climate is warming due to greenhouse gas emissions, and that climate change will have potentially devastating consequences. In the spring of 2000, the Pembina Institute issued a report indicating that Canada’s biggest polluters were producing more emissions that ever. Dennis spoke abut the …