Debates of Oct. 18th, 2006
House of Commons Hansard #64 of the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was board.
Topics
- Question Period
- Taste of Autumn
- Jannick Lecavalier-Rodrigue
- Mirabel
- Status of Women
- Firearms Storage
- Government Programs
- Persons Day
- Breast Cancer Awareness Month
- International Trade
- Government Programs
- Co-operatives
- Toronto Port Authority
- Canada's Citizenship Week
- Wilbert Coffin
- Persons Day
- Canadian Wheat Board
- Gun Control
- Older Workers
- The Environment
- Government Programs
- Status of Women
- Older Workers
- Fisheries and Oceans
- Transport
- Employment Insurance
- Equalization Program
- Atlantic Canada Economy
- Infrastructure
- Employment Insurance
- Older workers
- Foreign Affairs
- Status of Women
- Canadian Wheat Board
- Health
- Presence in Gallery
- Committees of the House
- Points of Order
- Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board
- Budget Implementation Act, 2006, No. 2
- Air Canada Public Participation Act
- Interparliamentary Delegations
- Committees of the House
- Employment Insurance Act
- Criminal Code
- Fisheries Act
- Committees of the House
- Softwood Lumber Products Export Charge Act, 2006
- Trent-Severn Waterway
- Kelowna Accord Implementation Act
- Canada Labour Code
Older Workers
Oral Questions
2:40 p.m.
Bloc
Jean-Yves Roy Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia, QC
Mr. Speaker, many workers who are victims of mass layoffs live in regions that rely on a single industry such as forestry, fisheries or mines. In that context, retraining is difficult, if not impossible.
Can the Minister of Human Resources and Social Development tell the hundreds of forestry workers in the Gaspé Peninsula, who recently lost their jobs, how her program is supposed to help them retrain and for what?
What will they be retrained for, Minister?
Older Workers
Oral Questions
2:40 p.m.
Beauce
Québec
Conservative
Maxime Bernier Minister of Industry
Mr. Speaker, today we are telling all older workers, including those in the Gaspé Peninsula, that we have implemented a program. We will work together with the province of Quebec and we will respect its priorities. The province will decide which community will benefit from the program.
Fisheries and Oceans
Oral Questions
October 18th, 2006 / 2:40 p.m.
Liberal
Scott Simms Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor, NL
Mr. Speaker, when the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans was the fisheries critic, he said in the House, “The department has been asked to find up to $20 million. This means devastating cuts. The government cannot giveth and then taketh away”.
The departmental estimates now prove he is cutting $100 million, affecting 200 jobs in fisheries. Why will the minister not use the money to give instead of taking away?
Fisheries and Oceans
Oral Questions
2:40 p.m.
St. John's South—Mount Pearl
Newfoundland & Labrador
Conservative
Loyola Hearn Minister of Fisheries and Oceans
Mr. Speaker, the hon. member should know and does know that he should not be reading NDP published press releases because what he is talking about are interim figures that are tabled that have no reality to the budget that will be presented next spring.
Our budget will not be cut. We are in the process of helping people, not hurting them. They had enough of that in years past.
Fisheries and Oceans
Oral Questions
2:40 p.m.
Liberal
Scott Simms Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor, NL
Mr. Speaker, there is a fish off the Atlantic coast called the flounder. It is kind of a flat fish. When it swims and sees trouble, it flips, it flops, and it swims in the opposite direction.
Fisheries and Oceans
Oral Questions
2:40 p.m.
Some hon. members
Oh, oh!
Fisheries and Oceans
Oral Questions
2:40 p.m.
Liberal
The Speaker Peter Milliken
Order. The hon. member has the floor. We will hear the hon. member's question at once.
Fisheries and Oceans
Oral Questions
2:40 p.m.
Liberal
Scott Simms Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor, NL
Mr. Speaker, my question is for the minister of flip, flop and flounder.
Department cuts, also custodial management, when will he practise what he started to--
Fisheries and Oceans
Oral Questions
2:40 p.m.
Some hon. members
Oh, oh!
Fisheries and Oceans
Oral Questions
2:40 p.m.
Liberal
Fisheries and Oceans
Oral Questions
2:40 p.m.
St. John's South—Mount Pearl
Newfoundland & Labrador
Conservative
Loyola Hearn Minister of Fisheries and Oceans
Mr. Speaker, I asked the member who ducked away from supporting our committee to go to Newfoundland so that we could hear what the people had to say and that we made the proper decisions in relation to the fishery.
The biggest problem we have in Newfoundland is an oversupply of one fish. It is called the shrimp.
Fisheries and Oceans
Oral Questions
2:45 p.m.
Liberal
Fisheries and Oceans
Oral Questions
2:45 p.m.
Some hon. members
Oh, oh!
Fisheries and Oceans
Oral Questions
2:45 p.m.
Liberal
The Speaker Peter Milliken
Order. We are on to the next question. The hon. member for Labrador has the floor. We will have a little order.
Fisheries and Oceans
Oral Questions
2:45 p.m.
Liberal
Todd Russell Labrador, NL
Mr. Speaker, that is a bit of a whale of a tale, but there was shock among Canada's aboriginal peoples when the Prime Minister announced that he would eliminate race based fisheries. It is a page out of the Reform book. It is inflammatory and divisive.
Yesterday the fisheries minister was confronted by a fellow MP for his government's handling of the west coast fishery. Having crushed Paul McCartney's relationship, is he now set on crushing Canada's relationship with aboriginal people?
Will the fisheries minister commit to protecting aboriginal fishing rights, constitutional rights that have been upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada?