Deborah Grey

[Marine Conservation Areas Act, September 28th, 2000]

moved:

Motion No. 11

That Bill C-8, in Clause 5, be amended by replacing lines 25 to 27 on page 4 with the following:

“Canada, an amendment to Schedule 1 may be made adding the name and a description of the area or altering the”

[Marine Conservation Areas Act, September 28th, 2000]

moved:

Motion No. 9

That Bill C-8, in Clause 4, be amended by replacing lines 5 to 11 on page 4 with the following:

“(3) Marine conservation areas and reserves shall be managed and used in a manner that meets the needs of present and future generations.”

[Marine Conservation Areas Act, September 28th, 2000]

moved:

Motion No. 5

That Bill C-8, in Clause 2, be amended by replacing lines 3 and 4 on page 3 with the following:

““Minister” means the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans.”

[Marine Conservation Areas Act, September 27th, 2000]

Mr. Speaker, I rise on a further point of order. The House leader has announced that I am not the House leader and I certainly do know my place.

I would like to ask, if by the good graces of this Chamber, we call it 5.30 now, six minutes early, when might we see Bill C-8 come again, because I think it is important enough that it needs to be discussed now. I do not think we are prepared to give unanimous consent to just send it off into the proverbial night.

[Marine Conservation Areas Act, September 27th, 2000]

Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I just want to clarify something further to what the House leader of the Bloc said. That is that we understood this bill would be coming forward on October 5 and we have now found out that the bill will be coming forward tomorrow. Now, at about 22 minutes after five, is the government planning on bringing report stage of this bill in for the second and third groupings?

It would look like perhaps this Chamber does not know how to run the country when it is putting bills in here at the last moment. I see that the government House leader is here. Maybe he could enlighten us.

[Foreign Affairs, September 27th, 2000]

Mr. Speaker, we do value the high commissioner and the advice that she had. We value the foreign affairs staff who had very serious concerns about this. We value the CSIS experts who certainly know what is going on here.

Why did the finance minister and his friends who went to that supper ignore the value of those warnings?

[Foreign Affairs, September 27th, 2000]

Mr. Speaker, again I mention that it was his own high commissioner in Sri Lanka who expressed concern about this.

The Prime Minister talks about values. The government brags about values. I will tell hon. members what we value. The high commissioner in Sri Lanka. The foreign affairs staff who did amazing work with warnings. We value the CSIS experts who gave red lights here and who were very concerned about it. When we are talking about values, I would like to ask the finance minister—

[Foreign Affairs, September 27th, 2000]

Mr. Speaker, the official opposition is not saying that there were not innocent people at that supper in Toronto on May 6. I know there were many innocent people at that supper on May 6 in Toronto, but my problem is that perhaps the finance minister was not. He had warnings from departmental officials from many departments that things were not wise for him to go there. CSIS warned against it. The U.S. State Department warned against it.

Why did the minister ignore the warnings of his own officials?

[Taxation, September 26th, 2000]

It is noisy, Mr. Speaker. Let us look at hepatitis C. Let us look at child pornography. Let us look at the GST and the pathetic record of the government when these issues have come on the floor of the House of Commons in the past.

The Prime Minister has forced his backbenchers to vote his way, even when it meant facing their constituents and themselves in shame. The vote is tonight. What will it be? Freedom or shame?

[Taxation, September 26th, 2000]

Mr. Speaker, I hear echoes in the back of the Chamber from the hon. member to York South—Weston.

Let us look at hepatitis C. Let us look at child pornography. Let us look at the GST. There is a long list of what is—