Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to get something really clear in my own mind. I look at the minister's bill and I do believe the minister has set a framework to establish a double tier of refugees. To highlight that, I'm going to emphasize that the 1951 refugee convention

Finance committee  When we provide these estimates, we want to be clear to Parliament where we think the economy is vis-à-vis potential. We're saying right now, as we look in this particular context today, that we're probably operating somewhere about two percentage points below potential

Public Safety committee  Excellent. Thanks for bringing it forward. I have had two constituents in the last month come forward to talk about how they lost $60,000 in a Publishers Clearing House scam, and another one in a dating scam. I know for sure they'd be upset if the perpetrator were able

Business of Supply   and the normal expectation as to how long people would work in the private sector with private-sector pension plans. That’s absolutely clear.... He also said: I would just hope that not everybody on the opposition side of the House is crazy. There’s lots of people there that understand

Finance committee   in the report, which I consider an excellent report and very solid, and some of the reactions to the government's policies. Can someone indicate to me what the difference is, and why this statement, which is fairly clear, was made in this report and then we had your reaction to the OAS

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It seems clear to me that we can't keep going with the status quo.

Environment committee   the capacity of our environments to support it. There are various ways of doing it. When, for example, there is a major economic boom in a given area, that's where the importance of a strategic environmental assessment for the purpose of studying cumulative effects becomes clear.

Public Safety committee   order, but it's support that the children and families need. Or indeed it might be the grandfather of a couple of children who also need support. You're very clear here in the bill.

Environment committee   will cite the following remarks by the minister: This means focusing protection rules on real and significant threats to these fisheries and the habitat that supports them while setting clear standards and guidelines for routine projects. How do you accept this change in direction

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't accept that characterization, Ms. Sims. There have been a lot of suggestions from some opposition MPs and others that the minister will be interfering in asylum decisions and arbitrarily rejecting them. Let's be clear. Every decision on every asylum claim will be made

Finance committee  Sir, we don't really have an opinion whether those numbers are credible. We think at this point the best option for us is to go to departments and make it clear that we're looking at restraint over a period of time going back to the 2010 budget and coming up with a total number

Finance committee  No, those are actual positions. We were very clear about that, actual positions, leading to 12,000. Anyway, I'll move to the next question, since you don't have the answer. It's unfortunate he wasn't able to answer the question in all those four minutes. I want to ask

Finance committee  So there was a change in material information that led to you changing your view. That's helpful. Budget 2012 includes a cut of 19,200 federal public service jobs. Minister Flaherty's spokesman is quoted in the media as saying: We were clear in our budget document we were

Public Safety committee   is not an abuse of process and that consideration be given to life, liberty, and the security of the person. So the intent would be, within those regulations, to make sure there's a clear and straightforward process so that there would still be an ability. As we talked about when we looked

Environment committee   of that study were very clear: Children's number one concern is the protection of habitat and wildlife. The children went on to say that in order to get involved, they wanted to ensure that their actions were having a direct impact on helping wildlife. To understand this commitment of kids