Business of Supply   is clearly sustainable. We do not face the pressures that many of the other countries are facing because they have a very lucrative and rich system when it comes to pensions. We do not have any of that. That means the Conservative cuts to OAS are being made as a matter of clear choice

Justice committee  , and hopefully to Parliament, is that if the inevitability of eliminating section 13 is clear, then we need to strengthen our other laws, and I'll leave it at that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, let me be clear. This government consulted with Canadians substantially. We received a strong mandate on May 2, 2011 to move forward with our low-tax jobs agenda. Part of that is making sure that we have sustainable social programs. We have taken action to make

International Trade committee  I have a follow-up question to that, Mr. Chair. The difficulty is that the U.S., as has been made clear, has had an FTA with Jordan for almost 10 years. They will admit that there have been some improvements made. One of the concerns I have, and always have had, on many

Justice committee   in order to battle the hate-mongers. However—however—as a progressive human rights organization, we recognize the misuse of this section and the hardships it has brought to individuals. Therefore, at this moment, we support the repeal of the section. We want to make it clear that we

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, let us be very clear. There will be no reduction in current seniors' pensions. As I have mentioned several times in this House, in order to ensure there is old age security for future generations of Canadian retirees, these changes need to be made now. The shift

Health committee   be.... Well, not then; we need to have that planning now. We need a strategy in place that would be based upon the evidence and facts presented in that report, and should have some very clear directions about where the best investments could be. The challenge with it is that if we wait

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Certainly I would be happy to give some further thought to that, but I think the critical thing for me—again, I haven't been through the government's plan—is making sure that there is a very clear statement of purpose for what is expected to happen from

Public Accounts committee  I'm referring to the list of people you consulted to produce chapter 6 in 2010. Our real concern here is whether public funds were properly managed or not. As we see it, that is the million-dollar question. It is clear that the government lost total control of acquisitions

Official Languages committee  . But it is clear that we cannot go on like this for ever because of the major costs involved. For the Société nationale de l'Acadie to be able to fulfill its mandate, our core funding has to be more than doubled. There are no two ways about it.

Official Languages committee  It seems to me that you are right. I do not want to speak for my party, but it is clear that your organization's mandate is important for Canadian unity. If we really want to be serious in our defence of the official languages and of linguistic minorities in Canada, the core

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much, Chair. Thank you very much, gentlemen, for being with us here today. I just want to be clear on one point. Mr. Byrne went to some lengths to imply that the purchase was more or less done or inevitable, but that the planes are hypothetical. Can you confirm

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. I have a couple of really quick questions—one for Mr. Ferguson and one for Mr. Reed—because I'm going to run out of time. Mr. Ferguson, you said earlier that there's a critical point going forward. It was really about managing, in that there needed to be a “clear

Public Accounts committee  That would be that the government—I guess probably represented by cabinet—needs to make sure that the group charged with taking this project from here on in has a very clear statement of purpose.

Official Languages committee   leverage generated in the economy to more than 100%. If we look across the country at the investment, there is $69 million going through the enabling fund over the five years. The average across the country is actually a three-to-one ratio. There's a clear value there that's being