Shipbuilding Industry  Mr. Speaker, I find it quite rich that this is coming from the Liberals, who are known for the decade of darkness. They allowed the ships to rust. Airplanes were in a state where they could not fly. Vehicles were rusting out. There was no money to the military. The manpower went

An Action Plan for the National Capital Commission   regulations. In closing, I want to reiterate the government's commitment to protecting the future of Gatineau Park for Canadians not only for the present but for decades to come.

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, it is not true that it is as a result of recent acquisitions. It has been around for decades and the previous government ignored it for decades. Year after year the Liberals ignored it. They should be answering for this, not us. We are cleaning up the mess. We

Canada-EFTA Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act  You obviously do not understand government or how the process works. We have so much work for our Canadian shipyards that they will be busy for more than a decade. We have to look at the cost, the capability and the schedule. If a shipyard cannot build something, or none

Norad   the decades, keeping pace with evolving weapons technologies from nuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missiles in the 1960s to air and submarine-launched cruise missiles in the 1980s. Norad continues to keep pace today. The traumatic events of September 11, 2001, underscored Norad's

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, I do not quite get the tenor of that question. Twenty-eight per cent of all general officers are francophone and 24% of the officer corps is francophone. The francophones for many decades have enjoyed a full career in the armed forces. Many of the recent chiefs

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, the Canadian Forces have operated for decades with French language units and English language units. As a former military person, I lived in that regime and it works. We can have units operating in French and units operating in English. They are combined

Business of Supply   to the limitations of ITARs. The Government of Canada is working to try to overcome the situation. By the way, this did not just appear this year. This has been with us for decades. Your government through 13 years of reign never did anything to correct it.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, there's a dam to the northeast of Kandahar. It hasn't had much maintenance over the last decades. The silt is building up there, and as a result, it can't generate the proper power. CIDA and other elements are looking at cleaning up the dam and increasing the power supply

Foreign Affairs committee   not seen real stability for over two decades. Too many years of conflict and neglect have taken a crushing toll. Infant mortality, for example, is devastatingly high. One in five children die before their fifth birthday. Basic infrastructure and public services, which we sometimes take

Official Languages committee  Mr. Godin, I don't believe we're going backwards. I believe we're going to achieve the goals set out in the Official Languages Act. They haven't been achieved for decades. We are attempting to do so. As I said, the current system doesn't work, and we're trying a new system. We

Official Languages committee  . We haven't implemented it yet. We're starting now. In the past—and I'm not going into the political realms of the past, but failure after failure after failure over decades—We are trying to break that approach. We are trying to get to a plan that will actually achieve what

Official Languages committee  We cannot achieve the universal within the Canadian Forces. We cannot get everybody to a bilingual level. It's the way the armed forces operate. We cannot leave people in locations for decades in either an English zone or a French zone. We cannot get them bilingual. We cannot do

National Defence committee   it off the shelf. We want to avoid development. We had a history of developing over a period of decades. We used to call it C1. We had to Canadianize everything. If two or three or four first-class militaries can use a piece of equipment for a certain function and we need it, why

National Defence committee  Yes, I will, and then General Hillier can answer his part. You may not be aware, but the defence department has had a requirement for strategic lift going back more than a decade, but your government chose to suppress it.