Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act   to the Government in Manitoba, which happens to be a New Democratic government. The Government of Canada has made it clear on several occasions that the provincial NDP government in Manitoba actually supports this legislation. Does the member know if that is true or false?

International Trade committee  . They view the recent changes with respect to Japan's postal service to be tremendous progress, but they would obviously like to see more. I suspect that issues regarding non-discrimination and reciprocity would be very clear.

Finance committee  The provinces and territories won't be so much impacted, because what this does is it simply makes clear an authority for us to share information as needed to support programs that we're working with in the provinces and the territories. Work that has been going on should

International Trade committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'd like to thank all of the witnesses for being here today. Yesterday I met with representatives of the canola industry, the pork industry, and agribusiness generally in Canada. They gave me a very clear indication that they're speaking on behalf

Environment committee   the classic example is when a farmer is faced with a slough or wetland he has to make an economic decision on. In the past, it was very clear: drain the slough, get rid of the ducks and geese that are eating your crop, and get more income from additional acreage harvested

Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act  . Once they raised the strong objection, it was very clear to us that we needed to find another method for going forward. Therefore, to answer his question whether we met with the provinces, yes, we did.

Finance committee   that is made more clear with these amendments is that the departmental act will be amended to make explicit our authority to disclose information to provinces in support of provincial activities, subject to conditions and the prescription of the provincial activity in regulations

National Defence committee  , Lithuania will financially support the development and sustainment of Afghan national security forces. We must, together with you, stay committed to Afghanistan in the post-2014 period. This is a clear message from my government; we already made this decision about our commitment a few

Finance committee   are not doing good work. I just wanted to clear that up. Could you tell us a bit about how people are trained, even if they are part-time employees? I believe that those people have solid knowledge of their cases and that they do good work in their tribunals.

International Trade committee   are produced in Canada, to Canadian standards. The joint study suggests that an EPA will result in dramatic economic growth for both Canada and Japan. When we review the impact of Canadian trade expansion policies to date on farmers, we see a clear pattern of loss in the number of farmers

Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act   because they think the fee would be high. Let me be clear. They do not have any proof that it would be high. This plan would be based on experience, based on pooled resources and based on this being under an act of legislation. Those would ensure we get the best money for this pension

Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act  Madam Speaker, it was not perfectly clear to me if the member intends to support the legislation. I ask that with all sincerity. Is it the position of the Liberals that because it is not enough, they will not support the bill, or can he recognize, as he did toward the end of his

Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act  Madam Speaker, it may be perfectly clear, as I believe I would have been in second reading, that what I like about the bill is it shows that there is a difference between all three political parties. We in the Liberal Party see this as a valuable tool and therefore will vote

Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act   pension expert Keith Ambachtsheer for a big-thinking lecture series on the Hill. He is an internationally acknowledged expert on pensions. He made it very clear that we already had a superb system that operated at a tiny fraction of 1% in terms of administration fees, with guaranteed

Environment committee  I think that's a good summary, because this is really about being results-oriented, as opposed to prescriptive. We need to be clear about the objectives we're trying to achieve and then enable an array of options to get to that end point, and monitor whether we get