Mr. Speaker, Liberal members in the House will be supporting this great Liberal bill and voting in favour of it.
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Public Health Agency of Canada Act June 20th, 2006
Mr. Speaker, Liberal members in the House will be supporting this great Liberal bill and voting in favour of it.
International Bridges and Tunnels Act June 20th, 2006
Mr. Speaker, Liberal members in the House will be voting in favour of the motion.
Business of Supply June 20th, 2006
Mr. Speaker, while we are in agreement with this, I would point out that the Liberal members from Yukon and Nunavut will be voting in favour of this motion.
Business of the House June 19th, 2006
Mr. Speaker, there have been negotiations and we are supportive of the motion. I believe you would also find unanimous consent that if the last speaker has begun his or her speech before 9 o'clock that the member be allowed to finish his or her speech, which will be a 10 minute speech at that point in time.
EnerGuide Program June 19th, 2006
Mr. Speaker, the government has killed all federal programs to help Canadians upgrade the energy efficiency of their homes, including those aimed at low income families. Such programs helped cut greenhouse gas emissions while saving Canadian families on average more than $400 each and every year on their energy bills. That one savings alone would be bigger than all of the benefits the average family may receive from the government's convoluted hodgepodge of tax credits.
Why is the government abandoning the policies that worked, abandoning Canadians and trashing the environment?
EnerGuide Program June 19th, 2006
Mr. Speaker, the EnerGuide program for retrofitting houses was popular with Canadians and very effective, cutting greenhouse gas emissions at a cost of a mere $20 per tonne, about the best value in the world.
By contrast, the Conservative bus pass program will cost about $2,000 per tonne, 100 times more expensive. The Conservative government has trashed programs like EnerGuide only to shift the money to bus passes, meaning there will be less action on climate change but a higher cost.
Why is the government making such a fundamentally perverse decision?
Committees of the House June 13th, 2006
Mr. Speaker, Liberals will be voting in favour.
Supply Management June 9th, 2006
Mr. Speaker, our farmers deserve better than having them play politics with something that is this important.
The Minister of Agriculture said that we would stay at the WTO negotiations because Canada was a deal maker, not a deal breaker. He also said that there was significant pressure on marketing boards, but he refused to give any detail on Canada's position.
The Minister of Agriculture needs to admit that the government is abandoning Canada's long established strategy of defending our sensitive industries. We need to see a plan. Farmers deserve more than just pure rhetoric from the government.
Supply Management June 9th, 2006
Mr. Speaker, yesterday in committee the Minister of Agriculture said that the government was still trying to determine what Canada's best strategy would be with regard to WTO negotiations. He has also received pressure from some premiers and industry groups to take a more flexible approach with regard to supply management. He stated that Canada would be part of the WTO no matter what.
The farmers in Waterloo region are worried that the Minister of Agriculture will trade off our supply managed industries for a deal with the WTO. When will the ministers of the government get personally involved, like Andy Mitchell did, and ensure that we get the right deal for farmers?
International Aid June 7th, 2006
Mr. Speaker, what the government is offering Canadians is bus fare, not child care.
The initiative in Egypt aims to increase access, improve the quality, and strengthen the capacity of early childhood development in that country. Some 300,000 children could benefit and that is wonderful news.
However, these were the same objectives espoused by the former Liberal government in its child care agreements with our provinces.
Will the government now follow the very good example that it has now set in Egypt, reverse the notices of cancellation, and reinstate Canada's intergovernmental agreements with the provinces?