Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Madam Speaker, I am amused by the hon. member's ability to pat himself on the back and talk at the same time. If he wants to get into duelling quotes, we will get into duelling quotes, the simple point being that he is representing the Minister of Finance in the House. If he is

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  The House resumed consideration of the motion that Bill C-9, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 4, 2010 and other measures, be read the second time and referred to a committee.

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Order, please. The hon. member for Laval on a point of order.

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Madam Speaker, I would like to congratulate my colleague on the adoption of her motion. Allow me to begin my speech by focusing on three excerpts from speeches by our learned colleagues who spoke just ahead of me. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance praised p

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Madam Speaker, I certainly will not have time to address all of the misinformation that was in the member's speech, but early in his speech, he made a comment that we have helped the auto sector but have neglected the forestry sector. I want to remind him and all Canadians that

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Madam Speaker, I most certainly have read the budget. In fact, I have read it more than once. What he said about help for forestry is so true that it should be right there. On page 259, where it says “Supporting Industries and Communities”, that is where it should be. Accordin

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Madam Speaker, clearly, the government is looking for a way to get itself defeated and cause an election. We have an omnibus bill here, an 880-page bill that was dropped on our desks a couple of days ago. There are provisions in this bill that really have nothing to do

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Madam Speaker, that does indeed take a lot of nerve. We read the document—all 800 and some pages of it. I agree with my NDP colleague. Indeed, I am sure that my NDP colleagues also took the time to read the whole thing so that they could discuss it in detail during parliamentary

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Madam Speaker, the disturbing part, parallel to the budget announced yesterday, was that the home energy retrofit program had abruptly ended. I will read a very short sentence from the Globe and Mail, which states: The federal budget released on March 4 promoted the program. “

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Madam Speaker, the government unfortunately does this sort of thing all the time. In 2008, for example, while an election campaign was under way in Quebec, the government changed the equalization rules with no warning. Now, it has put an end to this program; people had to get the

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Madam Speaker, I found it very mysterious that the government dropped the home renovation tax credit program, a program that was advertised a lot last year. It said that the program was one of the huge successes of the government. Finally, just after the first year of success, it

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Madam Speaker, I have a slightly different opinion than my NDP colleague, who says that this government had a good idea. It was not the Conservatives' idea, but the Bloc's. The Bloc suggested this to the Conservatives last year.

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Madam Speaker, I am glad to speak to Bill C-9, which gives effect to the budget announced by the Conservatives. Some of what the bill contains was in the budget and some was in the throne speech. The bill also includes provisions that have been mentioned in various forums in rece

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Madam Speaker, I listened with great intent to my hon. colleague who sits on the finance committee with us. He is a good contributor to the debate at that table. However, I remind him that the majority of his speech was totally irrelevant to the debate on Bill C-9. He spent a gre

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Madam Speaker, I remind my colleague that all of my remarks were directly related to Bill C-9, which deals with employment insurance. He should know that, but obviously he has not had a chance to read it yet, which is surprising since he is the Parliamentary Secretary to the Mini