Pharmacare Act  , though, when he says that the health problem in Quebec has to do with the fact that the government has not invested enough in health care. The Government of Quebec increased its budget by 50%. It has enacted reforms to try to do more with less. It implemented a number of reforms

Justice  Mr. Speaker, our resolve to ensure communities are safe is strong. What we did over the past 18 months was that we enacted legislation that addresses the acute causes of crime. What we have done in the past 18 months was ensure that the bail reform system deals with violent

Justice  Mr. Speaker, I would point out to the member opposite and other members in the chamber that we passed significant bail reform legislation in this chamber with the co-operation of premiers around the country and law enforcement officials around the country. I would also point

Werner Schmidt   with abiding values of integrity and honesty. He was committed to leading by example and inspired many of us around him. A former school principal, Werner became the leader of the Alberta Social Credit Party from 1973 to 1975. A foundational member of the Reform Party of Canada, he

The Budget   focus on what we had earlier introduced, the national housing strategy. On my second objective, we have reformed the Canada pension plan to secure retirement income for Canadians, and we have also introduced various targeted programs to support seniors. On my third objective

Finance committee  I would say that the reforms to the Competition Act are important to better equip the bureau to protect competition in markets across Canada. Clearly, there's a link between competition and affordability. So, these measures can help, but it's clear that it won't happen overnight

Finance committee  -operation in cross-border merger reviews. This is the kind of definitive reform that's needed if we want to see a true course correction in the way that mergers are treated, and avoid further harmful consolidation in Canada. The second recommendation I'd like to highlight is our

Information & Ethics committee   institutions ignored their access to information obligations. In fact, I am now in a situation that wasn’t supposed to happen. At least, that’s what I was told during the 2019 legislative reform. Before order-making powers were added to the Access to Information Act, I had suggested

Finance committee   at the table and talk, and thus bring about a substantial reform that could have an impact on prices? What could you tell us about that?

Finance committee  In your opinion, why won't the government move ahead now with that kind of reform and force everyone to sit down at the table?

Finance committee   by this reform, which was submitted, I believe, last year. That is why, in our opinion, the House of Commons should swiftly adopt Bill C‑319.

Finance committee  In your opinion, what would be important to include in this EI reform? Can you tell us a little about that?

Finance committee  As for reforming the act, I refer you to Ms. Quaid's edifying comments. For our part, we have focused mainly on small measures and the grocers' code. We believe this code should be mandatory. Indeed, when you want to regulate a business or an industry, you have to ensure

Finance committee  All right. In your budget brief, you propose that “criminal” interest rates be reformed. Can you tell us more about that?

Finance committee   of conduct; we call them reviewable practices. I really am asking myself this in looking at the way the reform was done: Why don't we take these things apart, take a look, and say what bothers us about the abuse of economic power? Why are we actually parsing it into little categories? Why