The Budget   on the rails, on properly built rails. The Quebec government is currently repairing the railway, but we need a clear signal from the federal government and Via Rail indicating that passenger rail service will once again be offered to Gaspé residents. The initial investment will make

The Budget   prattle. Their dollar-for-dollar policy is just political prattle. It sounds like a McDonald's ad: This week, Big Macs are a dollar. It sounds like a McDonald's commercial. It has no real substance. When I take a closer look, it is quite clear that the Liberals and the Conservatives

Industry committee  , a missed opportunity to understand what's actually taking place and to clear the air. This follows another Conservative motion that's being looked at by the OGGO committee as well. This one's a little more specific to my riding, and I think the more transparency we can have, the better

Justice committee  I'm deeply concerned about the messaging that will come out of the work of this committee today. If this bill passes unamended, which is what it seems the Liberals want, then the messaging is going to be clear that this government does not stand with teachers. We had Dr. Kelly

Industry committee   of profiling even if we have very strong safeguards and clear language in the bill, because there are so many ways that corporations will be able to circumvent the intention of the law. It's going to take court cases to go to the next step in protecting kids. Would that be a fair

Amendments to the Standing Orders  , to the reference to virtual Parliament, to use that as some sort of precedence, when we had very clear support from all members of all caucuses in the House of Commons. However, there were two party caucuses that voted against continuing the virtual Parliament, despite the many benefits that we

Industry committee   four-year-old, is not utilized in inappropriate ways. It's on how they are protecting that and linking it. Linking it to your information, for instance, could be acceptable in certain circumstances, but it would need to be clear in terms of how consent was offered and how

Justice committee   of implied consent in those cases. Those defences are very specific to certain circumstances. It isn't clear whether those would apply to the same extent as the section 43 defence currently applies.

Justice committee   dealing with a bill that targets teachers and parents. Let's be clear about that as well. It applies only to section 43. Section 43, which this bill strikes down, applies only to parents and teachers. It says, “Every schoolteacher, parent or person standing in the place of a parent

Justice committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Here we go again. The Liberals are trying to be on both sides of the issue, and that is why we're in this situation. You take what was said today, and it becomes very clear that section 43 is where it is because that's where that section has

Justice committee   to, basically goes step by step through what the Supreme Court of Canada said and captures all the main highlights. CPC-1 also makes a clear reference to schoolteachers in part 4. That is in response to evidence we received from educators here at this committee. I think CPC-1 is more

Amendments to the Standing Orders   a consensus. To be clear, Motion No. 109 does not create a situation in which unanimous consent would be required for future changes to the Standing Orders. As a practical matter, the mechanism of delay that I propose is only available to organized groups of a certain size. A group of MPs

Industry committee  The Canada Elections Act is clear. Minors are people under the age of 18. If I'm not mistaken, under this legislation, young people aren't adults before the age of 18.

Privilege   it very clear to all Canadians that we would have their backs going through that difficult time. There was a great deal of tax dollars being spent. At the beginning, it could be seen that there was virtually unanimous support for the government on a good portion of those expenditures

Finance  Madam Speaker, that is a bit rich coming from the party opposite. Let us take a walk down memory lane. When the Conservative Party of Canada was in government under Stephen Harper, let us see what the Conservatives did to veterans. They slashed the veterans affairs budget