Democratic Representation Act   in the House of Commons. That resolution calls for elected members here, from all federal political parties, to abandon the passage of any bill whose effect would be to reduce the weight of Quebec’s representation in this House. This is a clear message that we as New Democrats want

Financial Literacy Leader Act  Mr. Speaker, we cannot talk about this bill without a clear understanding of what happened in the beginning. In budget 2009, the Minister of Finance created a national task force that was mandated to provide the minister with advice on the issue of financial literacy. So

Public Safety committee  They're in the plan, but as things are evolving, we're not clear on the date, and I haven't approached them yet on when they're going to appear.

Finance committee  Thank you for your question. The fact is that the Canada Pension Plan already exists, and the government is trying to offer a new type of plan which would not be administered by the CPP. From our perspective, it is very clear that certain costs in a pension plan are lower when

Public Safety committee  Right. That's why we want to be clear that it would be for one meeting.

Financial Literacy Leader Act   national savings as a percentage of GDP and a lowly 129th out of 142 countries in terms of its overall government debt levels as a percentage of GDP. It is clear that we need to help Canadians become financially literate but that starts with telling them to save more and finding

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can link procedural fairness with security and the question that Don asked just a minute ago. Procedural fairness requires that the criteria that an applicant must meet be made explicit and clear, and that the applicant have a chance to answer or refute any concerns the visa

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Mr. Cotler earlier talked about Regional Chief Angus Toulouse. I think we need to be clear here. Basically, he's talking about the communities that have actually signed on. We're hearing those communities say that what is happening in their case is that they initially built

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  . It's very clear, too, that third-party interests are also very much respected. In that whole regime, first nations may differ. There may be band lands in common, which is more the collective version, but even within band land in common there are individual rights and CP interests

Public Safety committee   recidivism. You also indicated, I think in response to one of the questions from Ms. Hoeppner, that the research is clear that EM is not successful in reducing recidivism. Those are slightly different concepts. One is the intent of doing something, and the other is the conclusion. I

Citizenship and Immigration committee   are the clear guidelines on an aggregate amount of income—I mean, we couldn't be LICO, I don't think—that would satisfy a visa officer? Financials aside, the considerations that go into sufficient ties to one's home country are entirely opaque. In my submission.... I don't know if I

Finance committee  The first point I would make is that for the legislation, the intent is clear that it needs to be low cost. Administrators are going to be licensed. They are going to be supervised, and they are going to be held accountable to make sure they deliver on the low costs, not only

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  , who is not here, has a very clear chart that shows, if you would like, here are the steps to go through. But moving into our online community space, that's the place where we're hoping to be able to partner and pair operational first nations, who may have a similar context or close

Public Safety committee   by a Court or an Immigration Adjudicator or some other authority. You make quite clear in your presentation that basically this is a tool, and a fairly effective tool, based on your presentation, but that the system still has to be in place. For example, officers must be trained on how

Public Safety committee  We'll take 30 seconds to close off this video conference. I guess that's cleared now. We'll move to our next guest. In our second hour we're going to continue the study of electronic monitoring. Our witness, Dr. Brian Grant, is director general of the research branch