Safe Streets and Communities Act  Madam Speaker, it is clear there were attempts to amend this legislation. The witnesses appearing on behalf of the Toronto Lawyers Association and others on behalf of the legal community argued that this legislation should be amended to take into account mental health issues

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I want to be very clear that it's about the dynamics of the issue and not you at all. However, I do find it necessary to challenge the chair.

Public Safety committee  I don't want to confuse the situation. I just want to be clear. We're dealing with business records. This is from the sale of firearms from a gun dealer, as opposed to the destruction of government records, which is what the federal government holds. This is the distinction

Safe Streets and Communities Act  . These amendments, which opposition members would have supported, would have cleared the committee had they been presented then. What are the member's thoughts as to why those efforts to fix the bill now have come too late?

Safe Streets and Communities Act  Mr. Speaker, we are now getting down to the later stages of the bill, the report stage, after having had a rather short time in committee to deal with it. It could have been shorter, but as we have seen with the list of amendments here at the report stage, it is pretty clear

Privilege  Mr. Speaker, I am sure you will recognize the member for Mount Royal for closing summation comments. I want to be very clear that the actions that occurred in the electoral district of Mount Royal are irrefutable. They are vile, corrupt and anti-democratic, and they happened

National Defence committee   and exercising. We continually look at what the challenges are in the area in the north. Do we have the assets needed to be able to provide that support? We continuously examine the changing and evolving nature of what is going on. From a purely data set point of view, it is clear that you

Official Languages committee  It was, because notice of motion was given. Members of the committee have indicated who supported the motion, and that is something that should not be revealed to the public. I'm simply trying to be consistent here about the rules. The rules are clear. Only positive actions

Privilege  . Ultimately, the resources used to make these calls did not belong to Parliament or to the government; they belonged to the Conservative Party. To be clear, in no way was any parliamentary resource or time used to conduct a routine political activity. We are aware of numerous

National Defence committee   the support it needs—and in some cases, as we saw in the last year, it may not have—it will then come to the federal government. It will come to the Department of Public Safety and the Minister of Public Safety will look at the request. Throughout that entire period, to be very clear

Veterans Affairs committee  . We have a 24-hour help line. Family members can call at any time and voice a concern or raise an issue. Obviously, our protocols around privacy are clear in that regard. There are a lot of supports for the family.

Veterans Affairs committee   don't think you can underestimate the impact of the military culture. What we find is that as releasing members begin to prepare to move out of the military, there's a sense of wondering, “What's out there for me?” Within the military, it was fairly clear to them, throughout

Veterans Affairs committee  What we're working on in our transformation plan has many different elements, and they are happening at the same time. With respect to reducing our turnaround time on the disability program, in 2011 we added additional staff to make sure we cleared off any backlogs and moved

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, and I hear those as well. The department has been working on two things. One is a plain language system, where all of our correspondence is being reviewed with the view to making the terminology clear. Sometimes we had a tendency to use terms that were government-centric

Veterans Affairs committee  I just want to be clear on this. There is a bunch of things going on in the department: the transformation agenda, the strategic operating review, and an administrative services review. Am I right that those three things are all going on right now?