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

Public Accounts committee   yet, and under the memorandum of understanding in 2006, as I understand it, the government does not necessarily have to purchase the F-35. What's important right now, for the new committee that's going to be looking at this, is, number one, to have very clear direction about

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. Again, I think this particular purchase is a very large purchase for assets that are going to last for a very long time. It's a very large financial commitment. Therefore, it's very important that the right financial analysis be done so that it's clear

Health committee   gotten better at treating those parts of the disease, it's become very clear that patients have many other features. Maybe more interestingly, and I think this is what you're getting at, some of these features appear years if not decades before the motor manifestation. I think

Health committee   and knowledge very openly. Again, this is something Canadian scientists are renowned for. However, our concept of Parkinson's is changing rapidly. It's now clear that PD is not limited to the loss of dopamine neurons. The disease probably starts decades before the typical motor

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, gentlemen, for being here, and of course, for the important work that you do for Canadians. What is clear to anybody who looks at this file is that there has been mismanagement after mismanagement after mismanagement. If there are regulations

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. Auditor General, there being some pretty creative interpretations of what your audit has concluded, I think it is vital for the committee to have a clear idea exactly what we're focusing on in this meeting. Could you please explain to us what, precisely, your one

Study on Income Inequality   will die fasting”. Let us be clear. Since coming to power, the Conservative government has brought in strong economic policies that have allowed us to offer more opportunities to more Canadians, and especially to low- and middle-income Canadians. Furthermore, these economic policies

Citizen's Arrest and Self-defence Act   discretion for judges in respect of victims. The NDP has said in the past that judicial discretion should not be removed and that a judge should be able to send people away for as long as the judge feels is appropriate. We say that we need to send a clear message to the community