Protecting Canadians by Ending Sentence Discounts for Multiple Murders Act   has been doing for the last two or three years. We also have to reflect on what the government has done on the budget bill. It took an omnibus approach to legislation, threw in a bunch of measures it cannot get through the House, put it into a budget bill, and then forced

Protecting Canadians by Ending Sentence Discounts for Multiple Murders Act   basis are very similar and probably should be dealt with in an omnibus bill. A number of bills propose changes to sentencing. Rather than having a separate bill for car theft, or another one for some other issue, et cetera, an omnibus bill tends to make the place inefficient. I would

Eliminating Entitlements for Prisoners Act  , many of them are linear bills. Many of them have to do with sentencing. Many of them have to do with parole. They could have been rolled together into an omnibus bill, one to deal with sentencing principles and provisions. The reason the government has not done that and we

Strengthening Fiscal Transparency Act  , the Conservative Party put forward a number of initiatives on accountability. After that election, a legislative committee was struck and Bill C-2 was presented. It was an omnibus bill. There were many different initiatives in it. Our party supported a good lion's share of the initiatives. All

Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act   that are on the floor of the House, clogging up the order paper, many of which are long on title and short on content and could be dealt with in a number of different ways, the most obvious of which is an omnibus bill. I am noting that this is essentially a three-way debate among the Bloc, the NDP

Government Operations committee  Okay, thank you very much. I do want to turn my attention to some other issues under the supplementary estimates (B) 2010-2011. This is under the introduction of the supplementary estimates, on page 11: As a result of accounting changes due to the Jobs and Economic Growth Act

Justice committee  Thank you. You have before you the estimates. There are four votes that are customarily called on this. Would someone like to make an omnibus motion to deal with all four of them in one? Mr. Dechert, that would be for votes 1b, 5b, 30b, and 35b under Justice. JUSTICE

Government Operations committee  Okay. I think the change here really resulted from the Jobs and Economic Growth Act, which changed the way the EI account works. We were replacing the old EI account with a new EI account, and interest is no longer paid into the Consolidated Revenue Fund. So that had offset

Protecting Children from Sexual Predators Act   up these Criminal Code amendments into smaller pieces will make it easier for colleagues in the House, and maybe for the cabinet. Maybe the cabinet is not able to handle a big Criminal Code omnibus bill all at once. It is quite possible the members of the cabinet have limited

Protecting Children from Sexual Predators Act  , being a well-regarded lawyer who has been around the House for many years, is that perhaps the government could have proceeded by way of an omnibus bill. It certainly managed to that with the 980 page budget bill, which was not appropriate for that case. However, in this case

Protecting Children from Sexual Predators Act  Madam Speaker, the hon. member has made the point about the non-omnibus bill. It would have been a lot more efficient to have one. In terms of reworking the Criminal Code in a big way, yes it needs it. The statute is very old. There are some pretty old sections in it. However

Protecting Children from Sexual Predators Act   could have simply created one omnibus bill and brought it before the House, in much the same way the government seemed to be able to do with the last two budgets. That brings us to the next suggestion. The Criminal Code is now 100 years old and is in serious need of a complete

Criminal Code   the Conservatives, we could have brought almost all of those into two or three omnibus bills. That would have used up a lot less time in this House and more effectively dealt with a number of issues that do exist within the Criminal Code and the criminal justice system. We could have used

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, it is interesting. The member mentioned an omnibus bill. I seem to remember one that we had, protecting victims from violent crime. I remember the shrill of the NDP that we brought an omnibus bill on crime and how they opposed that. The other thing the member

Standing up for Victims of White Collar Crime Act   away from what I was going to say on this bill and argue that I would use my voice less and we would have less debate in this House if the Conservatives simply used omnibus bills rather than introducing a bill for every section of the Criminal Code. I will now get back