Garth Turner

[Points of Order, April 2nd, 2008]

Mr. Speaker, thank you for the opportunity to respond.

Just so the member is not under any false impressions, the invitation that I laid on his desk, hoping he would come to my event, was paid for by me, and I have the receipt. The envelopes in question were purchased from the House of Commons. It cost me $8.95 to buy that box. Again, I really regret the member did not come--

[Points of Order, April 2nd, 2008]

Mr. Speaker, obviously, I would never bring an issue to this House that is that serious without having much justification and also without having verification.

Actually, the member opposite had delivered, this week, 29,000 copies of a 10 percenter to a postal substation which is only allowed to have 5,600 copies distributed. It is a flagrant abuse of the rules.

The party opposite has been sending out millions of pieces of mail and all of these mailings have been breaking the rules of this House.

Mr. Speaker, you are responsible for the oversight of these rules and I think it is time that you looked into this.

[Government Flyers, April 1st, 2008]

Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the member for Burlington delivered 29,000 copies of a flyer aimed at seniors to a postal substation in my riding for distribution.

The maximum number of copies that the House of Commons allows is just over 5,000. Thus, the member for Burlington has broken the rules with an illegal mailing that he expects taxpayers to pay for.

My question is for the Prime Minister. Why is he instructing his caucus to abuse the rules and then force taxpayers to foot the bill for this garbage?

[Canada-U.S. Relations, March 7th, 2008]

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the plug. Canadians now understand that Mr. Brodie's leak of information to help the Republican buddies in the U.S. had a direct impact on one of the closest Democratic primaries in American history.

If the Prime Minister will not take decisive action with his staff he will end up wearing this. When will the Prime Minister fire Scooter Brodie?

[Canada-U.S. Relations, March 7th, 2008]

Mr. Speaker, most Americans have a tough time naming our Canadian Prime Minister but they sure are starting to learn the name of Ian Brodie and his role in leaking privileged information to mess up the Democratic primaries.

Another name Americans know well is that of Scooter Libby. Will the Prime Minister address this national embarrassment and fire his chief of staff, or would he rather keep denying and just wait until things turn out for Mr. Brodie like they did for Mr. Libby?

[Points of Order, February 29th, 2008]

Mr. Speaker, the hon. minister has beaten me to the point. I would like to thank him very much for doing that. I accept his apology.

[Ethics, February 29th, 2008]

Mr. Speaker, when a journalist at the time, in 2005, taped the Prime Minister in asking him about this incident, the Prime Minister said, “I don't know the details, I know there were discussions”.

My question is for the right hon. Prime Minister. Was he deceiving the journalist then or was he shamming the House yesterday?

[Ethics, February 29th, 2008]

Mr. Speaker--

[Ethics, February 29th, 2008]

Mr. Speaker, if that is how they treat their dear friends, I am glad I am not on that side of the aisle any more.

[Ethics, February 29th, 2008]

Mr. Speaker, when I was a Conservative member of Parliament, I heard the Prime Minister call Chuck Cadman a poor MP. The Prime Minister said Mr. Cadman was more concerned with ethics and with the country than he was with political organization.

I have always wondered why the Prime Minister was so angry at the late Chuck Cadman, but now we know a lot more. Was it simply because he could not be bribed?