Public Safety committee   tracking, on any given day, 2,700 offenders, so that's 2,700 alerts. Most of those alerts are cleared very quickly. For example, an offender comes home 10 minutes late—that's an alert. If the officer wanted to know that the offender is home exactly on time, he would get an alert

Public Safety committee   be an agency-based monitoring centre such as the Michigan Department of Corrections has, and they can clear those alerts. Or it could be a contracted monitoring centre, for example, 3M's monitoring centre, where we would process those alerts. It's also common to have a third-party

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Just so that it's clear, somebody handed you a land management plan and said, “This is it”, even though these are your lands, your territory?

Public Safety committee   but instead of the text message alert being sent to an officer, it's sent to our monitoring centre and we follow a series of protocols defined by the agency in clearing out those alarms. Those protocols might include calling the offender or even calling the police.

Finance committee  Well, we made it clear during the election campaign that we would ensure that we had long-term fiscal stability in Canada. That is our brand around the world—a brand with respect to which Canadians can be quite proud.

Finance committee  The question usually comes in another way—that this change might impose some burden on the provinces. We made it clear, explicitly, in the budget documents that we would compensate the provinces and territories for any increased social assistance costs they incur as a result

Finance committee   not been entitled to a clear debate. These were not in the Conservative Party's election platform. The change to OAS that will result in future retirees getting less, the gutting of environmental assessment, the changes to EI, the removal of the Auditor General's oversight—all of them

Finance committee   on the economy. With that in mind, the 2012 economic action plan provides that we will be moving forward with a clear, prudent and balanced plan to ensure economic growth and sound public finances in Canada, now and in future. As the challenges Canada's economy faces are not small or one

Copyright Modernization Act   and the right of consumers to have reasonable access to content. It is clear that the NDP is the only party that truly stands up for the rights of artists and consumers.

Copyright Modernization Act   is not clear, and this legislation will certainly not do the job. I only have one minute left, which is very little time. I would have liked to discuss a great many things about this bill, which is riddled with shortcomings and defects. Amendments have been proposed, and it is my hope

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the member for Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo. I would like to make one thing very clear: this budget is a good budget. As a member of Parliament, I take my job very seriously. I represent the wonderful riding of Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar

Canadian Heritage   Gallery or the National Battlefields commissioner, I guess they are going to have to “like” the minister's status too. If the minister really wants more friends—and it is clear that he needs them—why does he not stop picking the pockets of Canadian artists?

Maternal and Child Health   that such action is endangering the health of mothers and newborns. Our record is clear. It shows that Canada is the world leader in the effort to reduce maternal and infant mortality. It is a record of which Canadians can be proud.

Trade  Mr. Speaker, municipal leaders across this country, including the mayors of Greenwood, Trail, Slocan and Grand Forks in my riding, strongly object to the provisions in CETA that will diminish their capacity to govern. They are making it abundantly clear that a trade deal which

Environment committee  Thank you very much. Thank you for your presentations. They were very clear. Today we heard about all of the things that one needs to do. Setting up protected parks is not the only thing. You need to have strong national laws, etc. You all pointed that out and you said you