Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Madam Speaker, yesterday during this debate, I had the opportunity to ask a question of the hon. member for Macleod, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance. I asked him what he thought of the bill introduced by his Minister of Finance, Ontario's former finance mi

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I came here after the last election so I am new to the House, and the dysfunctionality around this place still boggles my mind. The budget is huge. I have read most of the estimates which was quite the task. I could ask the honourable and eloquent member for Outre

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Questions and comments, the hon. member for Hochelaga.

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Madam Speaker, my colleague from Hochelaga raised an issue that shows the hypocrisy of the Conservatives. It would, of course, take much more than 800 pages to back that up. Let us recall the private jet chartered to travel to a Tim Hortons to preach about government spending. W

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, this budget implementation bill sees the Conservatives, with the culpable complicity of the Liberals, completing the theft of $60 billion from the employment insurance fund. It is that which gave them the fiscal room to provide the $60 billion in corporate tax reduct

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I was just catching up on my reading of the Speech from the Throne and the budget just to make sure that my comments will be accurate and statistically correct. The Conservatives call Bill C-9 the jobs and economic growth act. As my colleague from Scarborough

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, the one point I will agree with the member on is that we certainly do not need, nor do we want, a majority Conservative government in this country because of what will more than likely happen if one ever comes about. The corporate tax issue and the Liberals' positio

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, the speech by my hon. colleague from Scarborough Centre was very passionate. I hope he keeps that up when it comes time to vote. He spoke about the isotopes produced by the CANDU reactor and accused the other government, the government opposite, of wanting to sell i

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, when it comes to voting for the budget, one thing I will guarantee this gentleman and one thing I will guarantee Canadians is that I will not use emotion to vote for this budget, but I will use logic. I will vote against this budget and my party will vote against i

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I think our leader was very clear that we were going to just freeze it. He could not have made it any clearer. I know there is direction from the Conservative government to keep reducing from 18, as he pointed out, down to 15. That is not what our leader said. He sai

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I listened very carefully to the reply by the hon. member. I am wondering if he is aware of the work by an organization called NESCAUM, the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management. Based on its empirical studies, it has shown that the one key trigger for

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, the question allows me to go back and remind Canadians that there was a formula between 1993 and 2006 that worked for Canadians. There was job growth and economic prosperity. We eliminated the deficits and lowered the debts. We somehow found a balance. As we were ge

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, we have seen some pretty brash behaviour on the part of the government last year and this year too. It introduced huge omnibus bills, 800-page bills, including things that really have nothing to do with the budget. We have the issue of the post office remailers

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, as I said in my remarks earlier, it is sneaking in new rules in the budget legislation. Those are not my words. Those are words printed by the pundits and the media. In essence, this is a tactic or strategy of the government. It is always sneaking things in. That is

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the member for Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie. Members know that the Bloc Québécois has already voted against the Conservative government's budget because, once again, it does not meet the economic, social, environmental and financial need