Francophonie  To repeat, Mr. Speaker, I spoke with Mr. Diouf. I had a very good talk with him. He considers the matter closed. I believe that the opposition parties should follow his example. Mr. Diouf has worked with this government to improve not only our relations, but also the work of La F

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the irony is that the party opposite that missed its Kyoto targets by 35% now wants Canada to abandon any role in the international conference. That would be irresponsible. The Minister of the Environment will bring forth a change in Kyoto, and that is to have a Can

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the Leader of the Opposition is completely wrong in all of the facts and everything that was just in that question and in its preamble. In the government's most recent budget, we provided new investments for public transportation and incentives to riders to take tha

Francophonie  Mr. Speaker, once again the Leader of the Opposition is mistaken. I have spoken with Mr. Diouf and had a good conversation with him. He told me that despite the regrettable incident, he had had a good visit and good meetings in Canada. He expressed his admiration for Canada, for

Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act  Mr. Speaker, when I was at home in my riding over December and January, I had an opportunity to meet with many of my constituents, who absolutely understand that our system is being abused. To be clear, Canada has the most fair and generous system in the world. Canadians know

Fisheries committee  Just to sum up, I think I have been pretty clear in terms of why this is important. I do implore the members opposite to reconsider. If you are going to vote against this motion, please reconsider.

Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act  Mr. Speaker, it is pretty clear that this bill achieves the balance Canadians would like to see. It has a number of factors in it and the issue the member opposite is speaking about is part of that. It talks about the importance of dealing with human smuggling and the importance

Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act  . First and foremost, let us make it very clear that the former leader of the Liberal Party, Michael Ignatieff, would not support Bill C-31. The Liberal Party does not support Bill C-31. The truth of the matter is that Michael Ignatieff supported the concept of the safe country list

Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act  . It is clear to the Bloc Québécois that the Conservatives are using Bill C-31 to send a message to people around the world who are persecuted that Canada no longer wants them. Frankly, this is disappointing. I said at the beginning of my speech that standing up for democracy

Fisheries committee   on fisheries EI. I think those are valid questions to ask, and that's why the consultation was held. It's not clear to me, but one could infer from this motion that Mr. Donnelly is in favour of reversing the practices in British Columbia, where there is no fleet separation policy

Government Operations committee   that opportunity—that is partly due to party politics—but what could be done is very clear, I think. It is about the formal powers of the parliament. It is about executive flexibility once the budget has been approved, the strength of committees, the timing of the budget process, and access

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. I want to make one thing clear. We're not saying there is no role for the private sector, but I definitely don't see a role for the for-profit private sector. You wrote an article that was published recently in Embassy. You wrote that “Traditional

Status of Women committee  We have 180,000 individual donors across the country, so a majority of our funding is from individual Canadian donors. To be clear, this is under our international program. Our entire youth programming, which is what this is considered to be, is self-sufficient. We operate

Foreign Affairs committee   of advocacy? When you look at the facts—and we have—isn't this clear?

Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act   and for Canadians because, instead of coming up with the best possible solution for them, we have to settle for things like this. There are ideological differences between the NDP and the government. That much is clear. The government needs to talk about something other than its “strong mandate