Dale Johnston

[Government Contracts, November 1st, 2002]

Mr. Speaker, this is not the first time that the immigration minister has tried to convince us that he has no close ties to Groupe Everest. In May he admitted being a guest in a Groupe Everest luxury condo after denying it in an interview in 2000.

Given his history, it is not hard to understand that we do not believe what is going on here. We think this should be turned over to the ethics counsellor. We have a contradiction here between the minister and his top bureaucrat. Let us find out who is telling the truth.

[Canada Pension Plan, October 29th, 2002]

Madam Speaker, Canadian Alliance members will oppose this motion.

[Nuclear Safety and Control Act, October 29th, 2002]

Madam Speaker, the Canadian Alliance members will be voting yea.

[Health Care System, October 28th, 2002]

Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. Discussions have taken place between all parties and I think the Chair would find that there is agreement, pursuant to Standing Order 45(7), to further defer the recorded divisions scheduled for 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 29 until the end of government orders, Tuesday, October 29.

[Supply, October 24th, 2002]

Mr. Speaker, I listened to my colleague from Red Deer speak about how important the protocol is for Canadians, and I agree with him. I have also read that Canadians are extremely interested in this issue. They are interested in how it will impact on their environment as well as how it will impact on their standard of living. Will it affect their jobs? How will it affect their energy prices? Will it cost them more to heat or to cool their homes? Depending on what part of Canada we live, we either have to heat our homes for part of the year or cool them for another part of the year, which is the case in Ottawa where it gets hot in the summertime.

If this is so important to Canadians do they not deserve to have the government put forth a plan telling them how this will affect them? Has my colleague heard how the government plans to do that?

[Petitions, October 24th, 2002]

Mr. Speaker, I too have a petition to present today. The petitioners are concerned that the current child pornography laws are not applied in a way that makes it clear that such exploitation of children shall always be met with swift punishment. They call upon Parliament to protect our children by taking all necessary steps to ensure that all material which promotes or glorify pedophilia or sado-masochistic activities involving children is outlawed. There are some 1,381 names on this petition.

[Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act, October 22nd, 2002]

Mr. Speaker, I would like to add the member for Calgary West to our ranks in this motion.

[Committee Business and Reinstatement of Government Bills, October 7th, 2002]

Mr. Speaker, the members of the Canadian Alliance will vote no to this motion.

[Committees of the Whole, September 30th, 2002]

Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I think if you were to seek it, you would find that the motion before the House might pass on division.

[Canada Pension Plan, June 21st, 2002]

Madam Speaker, the other thing we could do, of course, is just simply vote on the amendment that the member has put, or we could call for the vote and postpone that until September 18.