Stephen Harper Conservative MP for Calgary Southwest (Alberta)

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, external auditors and experts examined all these expenditures and said that the rules were not clear. However, the Senate decided that it expects better judgment from certain senators and that all of the money in question will be repaid to the government.

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, on the contrary, an independent external auditor was brought in to examine all of these expenses. He looked obviously at the expenses of three particular senators who have had some difficulty. The auditor has concluded that the rules in place were not clear, however

Employment  Mr. Speaker, Canada's economic action plan is a huge success. That is clear when we compare ourselves to other developed countries, and Canadians are proud of that. In the latest instalment of the economic action plan, we announced infrastructure investments to help build

Employment   are seeking work or in the employment insurance system. We have been very clear. We need to do a better job of matching the demand for EI and the demand for temporary foreign workers. That is precisely what the government has been doing for a year and a half while, by the way, the NDP has

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, I am not sure the leader of the Liberal Party understands the issue of tariffs. Let me be clear. The position of the government has been that we have progressively reduced a wide range of tariffs for all Canadians. Canadians have benefited from that to the tune

Government Expenditures   the period 2001 to 2009. There is some lack of clarity. The Auditor General has made some suggestions on how we can be more clear in our tracking in the future. We will do that. However, unlike the NDP, we remain fully committed to the legislation and to expenditures to protect Canadians

Employment Insurance   insurance, the government has been very clear. Employment insurance exists to protect Canadian workers who find themselves without a job through no fault of their own. We are fully committed to ensuring that system is there and it is strong for Canadian workers.

National Defence  . For that reason, the minister has made it very clear they will not have to repay those amounts. We very strongly support our soldiers. We not only support them, we have supported, through the entirety of the past decade, their mission in Afghanistan, and we will continue to support them

Employment  Mr. Speaker, we have been clear. We have reduced customs tariffs by more than half a billion dollars a year for consumers. We believe that it makes no sense to give China, India and other countries special tax breaks. I am a little surprised by the question because that member

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, we have been very clear that, unlike Kyoto, what we need is an effective international protocol that will cause all nations and all major emitters to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. That is what we are working for internationally and that is what we are doing

Employment  Mr. Speaker, it is clear that using this program to replace Canadian workers is wrong. The government did not have such information. Obviously we are going to investigate the matter, but as we have already said in the budget, we intend to reform this program.

Employment  Mr. Speaker, there are certain cases in Canada where there are absolute shortages of workers, and the temporary foreign workers program exists for those circumstances and not for other circumstances. We have been very clear that we will make sure the program is reformed so

Employment   work, and more employers need workers. At the same time, we are clear that we will make sure that the temporary foreign workers program will be used only as it is intended. We promised that in the budget. In spite of that, the NDP voted against it and then writes us to ask for more

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, our approach is clear. We are balancing the budget without increasing taxes. I know that the NDP wants to increase the GST by more than $10 billion, impose a carbon tax of more than $20 billion and tax job creators to the tune of more than $30 billion