Jacques Saada

[Canada Steamship Lines, February 4th, 2004]

Mr. Speaker, the figures are on the Internet, on my website. All the tables are on my website. The letter I sent to my hon. colleague is on the website. I cannot help it if people do not see what is on my website. They must be blind.

[Canada Steamship Lines, February 4th, 2004]

Mr. Speaker, the party that claims to be seeking integrity is asking the Prime Minister to breach the code of ethics that applies to all ministers as well as the Prime Minister by making inquiries about something that is completely out of his control.

This is utterly inappropriate.

[Business of the House, February 3rd, 2004]

Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. There have been discussions among the parties and I think you will find unanimous consent for the following motion:

That a take-note debate on bovine spongiform encephalopathy shall take place for four hours from the ordinary time of daily adjournment on February 4, 2004, provided that the provisions of Standing Order 53.1 shall apply mutatis mutandis to this debate.

[Point of Order, February 3rd, 2004]

Mr. Speaker, during oral question period, certain opposition members claimed to be in possession of information on a company and certain contracts that had allegedly not been disclosed in the documentation we released. I would like to have this information tabled officially in the House, please.

[Canada Steamship Lines, February 3rd, 2004]

Mr. Speaker, there are hundreds of pages on the website to inform Canadians about what has been done. They are not interested in that.

The Prime Minister referred earlier to the possibility that the Auditor General might look at this file. They are not interested in that. They are not interested in the truth. They are interested in playing political games. That is unacceptable and outdated. They are not ready for democratic reform.

[Canada Steamship Lines, February 3rd, 2004]

Mr. Speaker, let us talk about that new party with its old ways, throwing mud and trying to attack character instead of going to substance.

We took hours and days and weeks to work on an answer, a few hours within which those members asked for an inquiry. They were not even concerned about the contents. All they were concerned about was the political aspect of it. Shame on them.

[Canadian Wheat Board, February 3rd, 2004]

Mr. Speaker, the Wheat Board is an organization which must keep its own rates confidential for competition purposes. It has published all the volumes. All the information provided to us by the Wheat Board is part of the document that we have put on my website last January 28.

[Canada Steamship Lines, February 3rd, 2004]

Mr. Speaker, after my colleague raised the question on October 22, 2003, a process was begun to compile all the figures available to us.

As I explained, government documents are kept for six years. We went back eleven years. I checked all the documents available to me and I was assured by those who worked on compiling these figures that they were complete and accurate and a true reflection of reality.

[Canada Steamship Lines, February 3rd, 2004]

Mr. Speaker, it is absolutely amazing. When the Prime Minister decided to follow the code of ethics and the rule of ethics applying to ministers and therefore had a blind trust to deal with this issue, they wanted the Prime Minister to know what was in the blind trust. Either he was distanced from it or he was not. In this case he was distanced from the blind trust.

[Canada Steamship Lines, February 3rd, 2004]

Mr. Speaker, I have made sure to provide a document which is unheard of in terms of the size of what I posted on the website to make it public to Canadians. I have sent you a letter. I have sent a letter to each leader. I have covered all the angles I had to cover.

I repeat to my colleague, if he wants to be straight why did he not put this thing on the table in the first place?