Pensions  Mr. Speaker, I am not going to speculate on the budget, as I said yesterday. Let us be very clear. We are trying to ensure that OAS is sustainable for the future and that future generations of Canadians have an opportunity to access OAS. Old age security will become

Air Canada   Centres to another location”. That is a very clear indication as to what the deputy prime minister of the day said was in the law and the protection provided to workers. I would like to ask the government spokesman today if he could tell us this. Does he agree or does he disagree

National Defence  . Yet the Conservatives made it clear that they would brook no dissent. According to them, only the F-35s met the requirements. But that is not true. Why have they told the opposite of the truth?

National Defence  Mr. Speaker, that is not at all true. It is clear that Canada needs to replace its existing fleet. That is why we have been partners in the F-35 program for the past 15 years. We plan to continue participating in the program, but we have not signed a contract. We have

Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada   in 2015. All the while our formidable caucus, led by the member for Hull—Aylmer, was able to provide a powerful opposition to this out-of-touch government each and every day. Constituents in Dartmouth—Cole Harbour and in fact all Canadians have said loud and clear that they want

Government Priorities  —Aylmer. I met with representatives of community organizations, business people and seniors. There was a clear consensus: the people fear this government. They disapprove of its policies and will oppose the cuts it intends to make. This government must revise its priorities. Canadian

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   companies or subsidiaries that are incorporated under Canadian law, sometimes run by Canadian citizens, that can be traced back to Iran. I do not have any hard evidence that these companies have been engaged in clear violations of the sanctions regime, but I think it deserves some

Financial System Review Act  Mr. Speaker, we are debating Bill S-5. However, we are also debating part of the amendment that was tabled. Let us be very clear. The amendment talks about the fact that the immunity resulting from this provision could negatively impact the office's transparency

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   suffering is not caused by the outside pressure imposed by sanctions, you must obviously conclude that it's the incompetence and mismanagement of the government that is causing your suffering. I think that if you take all of this combined, it's quite clear that very few people inside

Financial System Review Act  , our amendment was rejected. It is very difficult to understand. I wonder what this means. I have to interpret this myself, because the government was not very clear on this subject. All that matters to this government is the financial system, not the Canadian economy. Yet

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In the past, police power was often used against the mob. There were many occasions when the state regarded the citizens as the enemy. This is more clear in continental jurisprudence than it is in our British tradition. The ultimate law is the safety of the state. That's an old

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The question I wanted to get to is quite fundamental. It appears to me quite clear that despite your observations about the minister's musing about you're either with us or with the child pornographers, Anonymous was not reacting to that; they were reacting to the bill

Procedure and House Affairs committee   between people and in other ways the web is a statement of a public utterance. Sometimes the border is not clear between them.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Anonymous not only called for the removal, in its entirety, of Bill C-30, but also Bill C-11, the Copyright Modernization Act. It is clear to me, at least, and I believe to those of us on this side of the table, that there was a threat against the legislation, not against

Procedure and House Affairs committee   information during Operation White North unless he accedes to their demands. I recognize those are not physical threats, but it appears to me that they are clear threats against our democracy. If a person or a group can threaten to subvert the legislative agenda of any government