Deborah Grey

[Apec Inquiry, October 28th, 1998]

Excuse me, Mr. Speaker. I will withdraw that word.

[Apec Inquiry, October 28th, 1998]

Mr. Speaker, I guess it takes inept to know inept.

This commission is not even operating right now and the Prime Minister knows that. Even if it is called back into procedure, the government and the Prime Minister know that they only have the option of checking into behaviour and actions of the RCMP and not of the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister knows that it will not subpoena him or the documents that his people are deliberately hiding. When will we get a full judicial inquiry into this matter?

[Apec Inquiry, October 28th, 1998]

Mr. Speaker, it is evident now that the solicitor general, the chairman of the commission and the RCMP are all saying that they think the RCMP may have gone too far in APEC. Who will decide if the Prime Minister went too far?

[Apec Inquiry, October 28th, 1998]

Mr. Speaker, in 1963 he did not have the APEC problem either. This on his fingers right now.

I would like to ask the Prime Minister—

[Employment Insurance, October 27th, 1998]

Mr. Speaker, this is 1998. We were going to borrow that money, not confiscate it.

In three weeks the finance minister is planning to meet with the employment insurance commission. I think we already know what he is planning to tell it, and that is not to cut EI taxes. He will tell the commission that he plans to change the law so that he can help himself to billions of dollars of workers' insurance premiums. He only has until mid November. He and the Prime Minister have talked about having a debate on this. Where is the debate, in this House or just in his head?

[Employment Insurance, October 27th, 1998]

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has absolutely no excuse for skimming money from workers' insurance plans that belong to them. Thanks to the finance minister's tax increases over the past five years this government is collecting billions of dollars more than it needs to pay the bills.

Why is the Prime Minister overtaxing workers $350 each on their insurance premiums?

[Apec Inquiry, October 26th, 1998]

Mr. Speaker, the solicitor general knows now that the process has been blown out of the water.

The federal court is looking into Gerald Morin's case right now and his comments at a casino, which is more than it is doing for the solicitor general.

This whole commission has been tainted. The students and the RCMP say that they no longer trust the process. The Prime Minister and the solicitor general seem to be the only ones who are pleased about this. Again we say “bah”.

When is the government going to shut down this sham and call for a full investigation, a judicial inquiry to look into the Prime Minister's role in the APEC scandal?

[Apec Inquiry, October 26th, 1998]

Mr. Speaker, on Saturday the Prime Minister told La Presse how he really feels about APEC and I quote:

This is a marginal issue. If you want to know my opinion as to whether this is a big problem, BAH! This is a marginal problem. I knew the police could do their job and the police did its job. If they went too far, people will see. They think Carle spoke to police and it's possible that he did. I hope he did. I don't know. Jean Carle will testify. Nobody was hurt and police even offered towels to the protesters to wipe their eyes. I can't testify because they didn't ask me to testify.

Could someone over there please tell us what in the world this means?

[Apec Inquiry, October 21st, 1998]

Mr. Speaker, if the Prime Minister is not afraid of the truth, he should get himself on an airplane and get out to that inquiry and tell it exactly what the story was. That is the problem.

It seems to me that the government and the solicitor general have already determined what the truth is. We want to know about the Prime Minister's actions, not the RCMP. We know they are being investigated.

I ask the Prime Minister right here, right now, what was the level of his own involvement in this, or is the Shawinigan schemer just going to say “It is none of your business?”

[Apec Inquiry, October 21st, 1998]

Mr. Speaker, it is fine to talk about the conduct of the RCMP and what is going on at the investigation, but the Prime Minister's involvement is what Canadians want to know about.

The Prime Minister is not going to be able to just “little guy” his way out of this. Canadians want to know about his conduct and his involvement.

Will the Prime Minister stand and talk about his conduct in the affair? How is the big guy going to talk his way out of this one?