Jobs and Economic Growth Act   would have added another “pre” to pre-Keynesian—what he thinks of the Quebec members who are aiding and abetting passage of a bill such as Bill C-9, which he has properly called an omnibus bill.

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my hon. colleague for his intervention on Bill C-9. He has articulated very admirably what we see wrong with an omnibus bill that takes a collection of things that really are non-budget related and makes them part of a budget. I know that he

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, the people watching should know that most of the bills before this House, hundreds a year, are in the neighbourhood of 10 or 20 pages long. This particular bill is 880 pages long. It is basically like vegetable soup. I have had experience with omnibus bills

Jobs and Economic Growth Act   found a way to do that. I remember one of the Conservative deputy speakers of that day referring to omnibus bills as “ominous bills”, and they indeed are ominous. What worries me is that this is the first real example. It is probably Guy Giorno's first chance to try this tactic

Jobs and Economic Growth Act   of staff to Premier Mike Harris who brought in the infamous omnibus bill 26? Guy Giorno, the same chief of staff to the current Prime Minister. My colleague from Sault Ste. Marie is nodding his head. He remembers what went on when we had that bill. It was the same sort of thing. Bring

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  , what is equally of concern to them is they do not have an opportunity to participate in this process because all of these issues have been rolled into this omnibus budget bill. I recognize we are at report stage, but surely it is not too late to sever those six critical areas from

Jobs and Economic Growth Act   this very critical difference for Canadians. I want to start, first, with the question of sound public policy and the question of accountability and sound budgeting practices. The bill that has been tabled is approximately 880 pages long. It is what is called an omnibus bill. For any

Jobs and Economic Growth Act   assessment regulations in this omnibus budget implementation bill, how does the member see this kind of regulation impacting on the duty to consult by the government? A number of first nations have spoken out quite strongly, raising concerns around this process and the bill. Could he

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to stand and debate this particular set of amendments to Bill C-9, the budget bill proposed by the Government of Canada. Quite clearly, we have heard the debate about the nature of this bill being the large omnibus type that the government has favoured

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, the member for Mississauga South touched on a number of areas in Bill C-9 where the government is improperly bringing initiatives through the door of this omnibus bill. I want to go back to the area of security charges. We know that in the United States

Jobs and Economic Growth Act   they hear how broad, comprehensive and how large it is and the things contained in it. They wonder what it is all about, why it is such an omnibus bill and why it is necessary. I know it sounds strange to some people to think that the NDP actually has conversations with the good folks

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my colleague on his excellent speech. I have a question. Over the course of the years, $57 billion has been taken from the employment insurance fund. But this omnibus bill would erase all of that. It will not be erased from our memory, though, because

Jobs and Economic Growth Act   to put a clause into an omnibus bill to privatize parts of Canada Post when they could not do it through legitimate means by bringing in Bill C-14 and Bill C-44 over the last couple of years, imagine how dangerous they would be if they were ever in a majority situation. I think people

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  , the bank presidents are earning as high as $10.4 million a year. While this is going on, we have in this omnibus bill increases to the air security tax, which is going to be paid by all Canadians. Those airport security taxes are going up by 50% making them and Canada the highest tax

Jobs and Economic Growth Act   omnibus bill that goes way, way beyond budget implementation. It throws in a privatization process involving the post office that it could not get through in the last two years under two successive bills. The government knows that it cannot get it through, so it throws