John Reynolds

[Business Of The House, May 14th, 2001]

Mr. Speaker, I was just in discussions with the government House leader and my party has decided to withdraw its amendments to Bill C-22 and Bill C-17. I think if you were to seek consent you would find agreement for that.

We will be voting on the main motion to both those bills.

[Business Of The House, May 3rd, 2001]

Mr. Speaker, may we have an outline of the business for the rest of the day, for Friday and for next week?

[Business Of The House, April 26th, 2001]

Mr. Speaker, it being Thursday, I would like to ask the government House leader what the business of the House will be for the rest of today, tomorrow and even next week if he has it done that far.

[Division No. 75, April 23rd, 2001]

Canadian Alliance members present vote yes.

[Ways And Means, April 23rd, 2001]

Canadian Alliance members present vote yes to this motion.

[Budget Implementation Act, April 23rd, 2001]

Mr. Speaker, Canadian Alliance members present vote no.

[Division No. 70, April 23rd, 2001]

Mr. Speaker, Canadian Alliance members present will vote no.

[Supply, April 4th, 2001]

Mr. Speaker, Canadian Alliance members present vote yes, with the member for Selkirk—Interlake and the member for Calgary Southeast being added to our vote.

[National Revenue, April 3rd, 2001]

Mr. Speaker, the government knows no bounds in its binge to co-opt the privacy of Canadians.

In March, in questioning from me, the Minister of National Revenue confirmed that his officials were not only opening Canadians' mail but opening privileged mail between lawyers and clients, photocopying it in an indiscriminate way and then keeping a secret database akin to the one we had last year in the human resources scandal.

Not satisfied with just intercepting and opening incoming mail of Canadians, the stealthy Liberal government has used the back door approach once again and has introduced Bill S-23 in the Senate to give the government even more power to violate the privacy of Canadians.

The bill would now give the Liberal government the right to open outgoing mail of all Canadians. The Minister of National Revenue said that opening incoming mail has been profitable. If he is so proud of his achievements, why is he using the unelected Senate to hide his tracks?

It takes a search warrant to listen to a phone call. It should take a search warrant to look at privileged mail between lawyers and their clients. The bill is undemocratic. It should have been brought to the House. It should be amended drastically before it ever passes into law in the country.

[Supply, April 3rd, 2001]

Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. During the minister's answer to my question he stated that I sat in the House with former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. I never sat in the House with the former Prime Minister.