Ethics  Mr. Speaker, our expectations are very clear. Our government requires that travel on government business be at a reasonable cost to the taxpayer.

Ethics  The only thing that is clear, Mr. Speaker, is that we have a minister who refuses to take responsibility for her abuse of the taxpayers. If we asked the average Canadian taxpayers if it is appropriate for her to charge $1,000 a day to ferry her one mile to and from work

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, as I have said several times, our expectations as a government are very clear. We expect that ministers will conduct government business at a reasonable cost to the taxpayers. In practice, that has had very positive beneficial results to the bottom line. The fact

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, as I said, our expectations as a government are quite clear. All ministers are expected to conduct business at a reasonable cost to save taxpayers' dollars. In practice it has worked, and it has worked very well. That is why travel expenses overall for government

Afghanistan   of Parliament, period. Canadians want a clear answer from the Prime Minister. Will he keep our troops in Afghanistan past 2014, yes or no?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  And literally they will be just thoughts, because we don't have concrete answers to a lot of that. I think all of those are excellent questions that we will need to ask the Government of Burma: what is going on? An important aspect of the progress forward is getting a clear

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, we should be very clear on this. It was the Conservative government that in essence created this fictitious crisis. There is no crisis facing our seniors in terms of numbers and so forth. This is all something which the Conservatives have made up. The bottom line

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   that it takes many, many years—even decades—to move out of that. This is in fact a very clear and concrete expression of it. It's in the constitution. It's 25%. It's mandated. So there's clarity about what you have to change. Going back to the oath, we're hopeful that this will be resolved

Business of Supply   senior fall from 4:1 today to 2:1 in 2030. This compares to the 1990 ratio of five working-age Canadians per senior. That is quite a shift. OAS is the largest single program of the Government of Canada, and it is funded 100% by annual tax revenues. Let me clear on this point

National Defence committee  Thank you very much, Chair. I think another way of responding to John's concern is simply to note that, even if there's, as you were saying, downward pressure on the U.S. defence budget, it's not at all clear that they would fail to prioritize NATO. They are talking and acting

National Defence committee   to talk to these issues. But the U.S. has been very clear that it still considers NATO, the indivisibility of its security with that of Europe, to be of fundamental importance to U.S. national security and interest. They'd like the Europeans to do a little bit more, as we all would

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, it is exactly what the government has done. We have already made it clear in our budget that any net loss that might incur to provinces and territories because of the changes will be compensated by our government. There are 11 years to discuss this. We will keep

Business of Supply   a little farther. It is clear that there is no political advantage to the Prime Minister in making this change. It has given the opposition a great opportunity to attack the government and fear-monger with seniors, but the Prime Minister did it anyway because he is prepared to accept

National Defence committee   exactly what they're grappling with. In fact, when he comes, he will be able to give you some insights, too. How do you transform the alliance to deal? At the moment, there aren't those clear parameters to be able to explain this exactly.

Information & Ethics committee   are designed. It isn't always obvious that when you share something with everyone, you really are sharing it with everyone, not just your friends and such. So, for us, trying to force social networks to provide clear explanations so that young people using their sites can more easily