Debates of April 16th, 2008
House of Commons Hansard #80 of the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was criminal.
Topics
- Question Period
- Seniors
- Donald C. MacDonald
- Marc-Antoine Latulippe
- Equality Day
- Chief of the Defence Staff
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Milad al-Nabiy
- Pierre Lapointe
- Government Policies
- Member for Nepean--Carleton
- The Bloc Québécois
- Bill Dance
- The Prime Minister
- The Quebec Nation
- Conservative Party of Canada
- Government Policies
- Elections Canada
- Gasoline Prices
- Elections Canada
- Afghanistan
- Justice
- Minister of the Environment
- Canadian Forces
- Elections Canada
- Afghanistan
- Ethics
- Justice
- Canadian Wheat Board
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Post-Secondary Education
- Points of Order
- Government Response to Petitions
- Interparliamentary Delegations
- Committees of the House
- Criminal Code
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Motions for Papers
- Point of Order
- Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
- Criminal Code
- Committees of the House
- Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
- Criminal Code
Post-Secondary Education
Oral Questions
3:05 p.m.
NDP
Denise Savoie Victoria, BC
Mr. Speaker, the government spent $66 million last year on the National Student Loans Service Centre that offered no service, loses paperwork, and is causing untold headaches. There was $18.5 million paid to collection agencies, including the U.S. firm Resolve, which is paid only for the accounts it recovers. This means the longer they keep graduates in debt the more money they make.
Why does the minister continue to dole out contracts that allow companies to make money by keeping Canadian graduates in debt? When will he amend the contract to help graduates avoid financial problems?
Post-Secondary Education
Oral Questions
3:05 p.m.
Medicine Hat
Alberta
Conservative
Monte Solberg Minister of Human Resources and Social Development
Mr. Speaker, the answer lies in the budget. It lies in the changes that we have made in student financial assistance. If the critic for the NDP would simply read the document, she would know that.
Instead, she gets up and pontificates on an issue on which we have already provided the answers. Again, the NDP gets up with all this rhetoric, and then turns around and votes against the very solutions that are necessary to fix the problem.
Oral Questions
Points of Order
Oral Questions
April 16th, 2008 / 3:05 p.m.
Conservative
Steven Blaney Lévis—Bellechasse, QC
Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order.
During oral question period, the hon. member for La Pointe-de-l'Île made comments that could be seen as insulting to Quebec and Canadian workers and consumers. I grew up in Sainte-Marie and we were very proud of the Vachon bakery. When we went abroad we would bring boxes of Vachon snack cakes with us and people were pleased to have them.
I would like to give my colleague, the hon. member for La Pointe-de-l'Île, the opportunity to clarify what she said and confirm that she is a proud ambassador of Quebec's products and Quebec's agri-food industry.
Oral Questions
Points of Order
Oral Questions
3:05 p.m.
Liberal
Oral Questions
Points of Order
Oral Questions
3:05 p.m.
Bloc
Michel Guimond Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, QC
Mr. Speaker, I rise on the same point of order. I believe the hon. member is getting things mixed up.
My colleague from La Pointe-de-l'Île does not want to ridicule workers in the agri-food industry, or the people at Vachon, or the people from Beauce. She simply wanted to ridicule the fact that the Minister of Foreign Affairs went to Afghanistan and handed out Vachon Jos Louis snack cakes. That was what my colleague was referring to. Instead of resolving real problems, he was handing out snack cakes. I believe the hon. member is getting things mixed up and that he did not understand.
Oral Questions
Points of Order
Oral Questions
3:10 p.m.
Liberal
The Speaker Peter Milliken
The hon. member for Lévis—Bellechasse. However, I do not want a debate on this matter. This is simply a point of order and I believe I have heard about enough.
Oral Questions
Points of Order
Oral Questions
3:10 p.m.
Conservative
Steven Blaney Lévis—Bellechasse, QC
Mr. Speaker, I am very proud to live in Sainte-Marie. I have relatives and there are people here today who have worked at Vachon and they deserve some respect. We will defend them and represent them to the end.
Oral Questions
Points of Order
Oral Questions
3:10 p.m.
Liberal
Oral Questions
Points of Order
Oral Questions
3:10 p.m.
Liberal
David McGuinty Ottawa South, ON
Mr. Speaker, pursuant to the question I put today, I seek unanimous consent, once again, particularly at the request of the Minister of Public Safety, to table the special investigation report from the University of Calgary audit services, a 27 page report that goes into the details of what is clearly an advertising scam.
I seek unanimous consent, which was denied yesterday by government members, to table this very report.
Oral Questions
Points of Order
Oral Questions
3:10 p.m.
Liberal
Oral Questions
Points of Order
Oral Questions
3:10 p.m.
Some hon. members
Agreed.
No.
Oral Questions
Points of Order
Oral Questions
3:10 p.m.
Liberal
Wayne Easter Malpeque, PE
Mr. Speaker, I have in my hands the exchange of letters between the minister and the Canadian Wheat Board, wherein the minister was advised his request was in violation of the Privacy Act, yet he wrote and demanded that information again, commercial confidential information.
I ask permission to table these documents in the House.
Oral Questions
Points of Order
Oral Questions
3:10 p.m.
Liberal
The Speaker Peter Milliken
Does the hon. member have the unanimous consent of the House to table these documents?
Oral Questions
Points of Order
Oral Questions
3:10 p.m.
Some hon. members
Agreed.
No.
Government Response to Petitions
Routine Proceedings
3:10 p.m.
Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre
Saskatchewan
Conservative
Tom Lukiwski Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister for Democratic Reform
Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8) I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the government's response to 66 petitions.