Jean Lapierre

[Airline Industry, March 11th, 2005]

Mr. Speaker, I too am very sorry to see that potentially 17,000 passengers will not get service today from Jetsgo. We are in a free market economy and those things happen.

In the meantime, I have talked to the presidents of WestJet, Air Canada, CanJet and VIA also, and they are providing all the options possible to help passengers get home or get somewhere else.

On consumer protection, in many provinces if the tickets were bought through a travel agency, there is protection. If it is through a credit card, some have protection and some have insurance. There are all different cases.

[Transport, March 10th, 2005]

Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the hon. member for recognizing that the government has acted. The Liberal caucus has also been asking for those measures.

The reason we are allowing both standards is to encourage global harmonization by vehicle manufacturers and to open the Canadian market to world suppliers. There are 175,000 vehicles stolen each year. With this measure we hope that number will go down dramatically.

[CSL Shipping, March 10th, 2005]

Mr. Speaker, if I were cheap, I would do what the hon. member is doing and try to make connections to the family like that. It takes someone cheap to do that.

The truth is we are all working together, the Government of Canada, Transport Canada and Environment Canada, to establish better international standards for decommissioned ships. Everyone is working for a better environment and we certainly have nothing to learn from the Bloc Québécois.

[CSL Shipping, March 10th, 2005]

Mr. Speaker, I must point out that Transport Canada inspectors had indeed examined the vessel and all international standards, all international requirements, were met at the time of its departure.

[Sponsorship Program, March 10th, 2005]

Mr. Speaker, I do not know how the hon. member reaches his conclusions. We took the Auditor General of Canada's report, and used it to draw up a list of all the names mentioned, company names and all their directors. We took the most complete list we had and that list came from the Auditor General.

Moreover, we cannot be asked to take over the job of the Gomery Inquiry. It was put in place to find out the whole truth. Its list will become ours, and if there is any causal connection between donations and Liberal Party activities, every cent of it will be paid back. Nothing could be clearer than that.

[Sponsorship Program, March 10th, 2005]

Mr. Speaker, the hon. member should know that the Deloitte & Touche report was based directly on the list provided by the Auditor General of Canada. This should be the most credible and complete list available since it was created from the Auditor General's report.

We cannot prejudge the inquiry and the hon. members opposite should not either. Let us wait for the report. If the money was given improperly, every cent of it will be reimbursed.

[Sponsorship Program, March 10th, 2005]

Mr. Speaker, I must say this is not really a question that concerns the government. I am surprised that it was allowed.

In any case, I want to tell the hon. member that the Liberal Party has submitted documents to the Gomery Commission listing the names of all the agencies, directors and subsidiaries that might have been contributors. The list was available. It is the same list which was distributed to both Commissioner Gomery and the special counsel.

[Terrorism, March 9th, 2005]

Mr. Speaker, I had a hard time understanding the question in French. I can tell you that airport security is assured with as many means as possible. However, we are also developing a special list to keep certain people off flights. If that is what the hon. member wanted to know, this is absolutely the case. We are currently working on a no fly list.

[Transport, March 8th, 2005]

Mr. Speaker, I cannot believe my ears. The first thing we have to do is background checks. The member wants us to have secure ports and he is against background checks. What does he want after all?

[Transport, March 8th, 2005]

Mr. Speaker, it is clear. We have started to set up regulated areas in airports and we have done background checks on airport employees. We are now considering doing the exact same thing—not a double standard, but the exact same thing—in Canada's ports.

We are going to start in three ports: Halifax, Montreal and Vancouver, but eventually all ports in Canada will be controlled the same way.