Elsie Wayne

[Manganese-Based Fuel Additives Act, October 31st, 1995]

Mr. Speaker, I vote nay.

[Agriculture And Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Act, October 31st, 1995]

Mr. Speaker, I will be voting no.

[Agriculture And Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Act, October 31st, 1995]

Mr. Speaker, I will be voting nay on Motion No. 4. I will be voting in favour of Motions Nos. 21, 22 and 23.

[Agriculture And Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Act, October 31st, 1995]

Mr. Speaker, I will be voting nay.

[Agriculture And Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Act, October 31st, 1995]

Good and honourable PCers will be voting nay.

[Gasoline Additives, October 25th, 1995]

Mr. Speaker, MMT is the only available gasoline additive in Canada that can reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by as much as 20 per cent. These emissions cause urban smog.

A ban on MMT would have the effect of adding one million cars to Canadian roads by the year 2000. MMT lets Canadian refiners

use less intensive refining which also cuts down on other types of emissions that hurt the environment. In Saint John which has the biggest oil refinery in Canada this is important.

The environment minister with Bill C-94 wants to remove MMT from Canadian gas because she says it will harmonize Canada's standards with the U.S. where MMT is not used. She has also stated that automakers claim that MMT harms their onboard diagnostic systems. Independent studies and American courts have said that there is no such link. Within weeks MMT will be used in U.S. refineries.

I ask the minister to stop Bill C-94 as Canada's gasoline standards would no longer be-

[National Defence, October 19th, 1995]

Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of National Defence.

There is a proposal before the minister's department to change the tendering system for moving companies who move employees of national defence. Will the minister assure this House that his department will not move toward a one bidder take all system, which would create a monopoly in the moving business and destroy an industry of over 800 companies across this nation and put many thousands of people out of work?

[Libraries, October 18th, 1995]

Mr. Speaker, local libraries across the country will suffer if the proposed privatization of the Canada Communication Group is put in place by the government. Libraries are concerned that the depository program operated by the Canada Communication Group may be in danger.

Relaying government information to the general public has always been a part of the public library's mandate. The partnership between government information services and the public library system has been successfully in place for over 100 years. It would be most unfortunate if communications between the government and the people of Canada should be endangered.

With the privatization of CCG, government documents will become expensive and difficult to obtain.

For the sake of providing information to Canadians, I ask the government to consider retaining the publishing function of CCG while giving up the responsibility for printing.

[Canada-United States Tax Convention Act, 1984, October 17th, 1995]

Mr. Speaker, all the PCers will be voting nay.

[Oceans Act, October 3rd, 1995]

Mr. Speaker, I vote yea.