Debates of Nov. 18th, 2002
House of Commons Hansard #26 of the 37th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was security.
Topics
- Solicitation Laws
- Public Safety Act, 2002
- The Environment
- Employment Insurance
- Religious Organizations
- The Environment
- Ken Marland
- Government Financial Management
- Sports
- Jocelyne Gervais
- Job Creation
- Agriculture
- Abba Eban
- Émile Ollivier
- Poverty
- Justice
- St. Francis Xavier University
- Osteoporosis
- Coast Guard
- Terrorism
- Kyoto Protocol
- Border Security
- National Defence
- Terrorism
- Health
- Kyoto Protocol
- Health
- Kyoto Protocol
- Justice
- Health
- Foreign Aid
- Terrorism
- Veterans Affairs
- Foreign Affairs
- Correctional Service Canada
- Employment Insurance
- Agriculture
- Lumber
- Employment Insurance
- Highway Program
- Agriculture
- Wind Energy
- Government of Canada
- Presence in Gallery
- Order in Council Appointments
- Government Response to Petitions
- Access to Information Act
- Income Tax Act
- Ukrainian Canadian Restitution Act
- National Agriculture Industry Relief Coordination Act
- Income Tax Act
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Question No. 4
- Question No. 7
- Question No. 10
- Question No. 12
- Question No. 13
- Question No. 16
- Question No. 22
- Question No. 23
- Questions Passed as Orders for Returns
- Question No. 6
- Question No. 8
- Question No. 11
- Question No. 14
- Question No. 15
- Question No. 21
Correctional Service Canada
Oral Question Period
2:50 p.m.
The Speaker
The hon. Solicitor General.
Correctional Service Canada
Oral Question Period
2:50 p.m.
Malpeque
P.E.I.
Liberal
Wayne Easter Solicitor General of Canada
Mr. Speaker, it is amazing how the member can find every bad example in the book when really the record is in fact improving. The fact--
Correctional Service Canada
Oral Question Period
2:50 p.m.
Some hon. members
Oh, oh.
Correctional Service Canada
Oral Question Period
2:50 p.m.
The Speaker
Order. Again, the hon. member for Crowfoot will want to hear the answer and he cannot if everybody is making all this noise. It is hard for the Chair to hear the Solicitor General who sits very close to me.
Correctional Service Canada
Oral Question Period
2:50 p.m.
Liberal
Wayne Easter Malpeque, PE
Mr. Speaker, the records clearly show that through the system that we have in place, through granting parole and integrating people slowly into the system, their chances of reinstituting crime are very much less. We take great pride in our system of parole and corrections in this country.
Employment Insurance
Oral Question Period
2:50 p.m.
Liberal
Nancy Karetak-Lindell Nunavut, NU
Mr. Speaker, the government has said many times that it is committed to giving children the best possible start in life and helping families with children. Last year the government extended maternity and parental benefits under employment insurance to a full year of coverage.
Could the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Human Resources Development tell the House what concrete impact this has had on the lives of Canadians?
Employment Insurance
Oral Question Period
2:50 p.m.
Laval West
Québec
Liberal
Raymonde Folco Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Human Resources Development
Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for Nunavut for bringing this information to the attention of the House. The fact is that the improvements to maternity and parental benefits under employment insurance made almost one year ago have been a resounding success.
I can announce to this House that in excess of 200,000 Canadians received parental or maternity benefits in 2001. This is a 24% increase. For the benefit of this House, what is even more interesting to note is that 80% of those who received benefits were men.
Agriculture
Oral Question Period
November 18th, 2002 / 2:50 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Art Hanger Calgary Northeast, AB
Mr. Speaker, right this minute there are four western farmers who have been denied their basic freedoms as Canadians. Jim Chatenay, Bill Moore, Ron Duffy and John Turcado are serving their third week as political prisoners. This is not China, Iraq or North Korea I am talking about; it is Lethbridge, in western Canada. The government jails farmers simply for selling their own grain.
Why does the minister responsible for the Wheat Board believe that western farmers should not have the right to sell their own products to whomever they want?
Agriculture
Oral Question Period
2:50 p.m.
Mississauga South
Ontario
Liberal
Paul Szabo Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Works and Government Services
Mr. Speaker, in 1996, 13 farmers conducted a protest against the laws of Canada. They went through the legal process fully. Thirteen farmers decided that they would go to prison instead of paying their fines. I am pleased to advise the House that today 10 of those 13 farmers have paid their fines and are home with their families.
Agriculture
Oral Question Period
2:50 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Agriculture
Oral Question Period
2:50 p.m.
Some hon. members
Oh, oh.
Agriculture
Oral Question Period
2:50 p.m.
The Speaker
Order. I think some of the language I am hearing may be unparliamentary and we would not want that.
The hon. member for Calgary Northeast has the floor and I know hon. members will want to hear his question.
Agriculture
Oral Question Period
2:50 p.m.
Canadian Alliance
Art Hanger Calgary Northeast, AB
Mr. Speaker, the government should be ashamed of itself.
In Ontario farmers can grow their own wheat and sell it to the highest bidder. Cross the border into Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, and they cannot do that; they go to jail instead.
This should be brought to the attention of the Prime Minister to let him answer the question. Will he demand that the minister responsible for the Wheat Board table legislation that would allow farmers to sell their grain freely and set those farmers free?
Agriculture
Oral Question Period
2:50 p.m.
Mississauga South
Ontario
Liberal
Paul Szabo Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Works and Government Services
Mr. Speaker, the Canadian Wheat Board is highly respected and supported by western Canadian farmers.
There is a process in which the Canadian Wheat Board Act can be not applied. It requires a plebiscite of western Canadian farmers and a recommendation of the board of directors, two-thirds of which are western Canadian grain farmers.
I would also advise that in 1998 the government tried to change the rules to facilitate precisely what the opposition is asking for and they denied it.
Lumber
Oral Question Period
2:55 p.m.
Bloc
Paul Crête Kamouraska—Rivière-Du-Loup—Témiscouata—Les Basques, QC
Mr. Speaker, logging companies keep on reporting financial losses. After Uniforêt and Abitibi Consol, now it is Tembec's turn to report a $158 million loss, including more than $17 million for antidumping and countervailing duties levied by the United States on lumber exports from Quebec.
How many more examples do the Minister of Industry and the government need before they understand that their current aid package is insufficient? What are they waiting for to put forward an aid package that meets the needs of the lumber industry? Time is running out.