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Housing October 28th, 2013
Mr. Speaker, our investment and our commitment to affordable housing is a multi-pronged approach.
We are working steadily with our partners on things like agreements for investment in affordable housing as well as our homelessness partnering strategy, with the focus on housing first.
We are producing results. We are not just talking, as the NDP always wants to do: more bureaucracy, more talk. We are actually producing results for those who are vulnerable.
Housing October 28th, 2013
Mr. Speaker, budget 2013 renewed our investment and our commitment to affordable housing.
Together with our partners, our government has provided housing and support for over 880,000 individuals and families.
We are actually producing results. CMHC provides mortgage subsidies for long-term 25- to 50-year agreements. Those agreements are coming to an end. There are no cuts.
Employment Insurance October 24th, 2013
Mr. Speaker, once again, the decision to dismiss this person was made by officials at the department. We support that decision.
I would go back, though, to the member's assertion about the budget implementation bill and suggest that he actually read it. It was very clear from his previous question that he has no idea what is in the BIA. He has no idea how it is benefiting Canadians and benefiting Canadians in his region.
It is shameful. The member needs to read it before he asks a question.
Employment Insurance October 24th, 2013
Mr. Speaker, actually, that technical error is being corrected in the BIA act, so I would expect the member to stand up when the vote comes and support the budget implementation act to correct it.
Employment Insurance October 24th, 2013
Mr. Speaker, Service Canada has been clear. There are no quotas. Service Canada has also been clear that the processes have been in place since 1993.
Shame on the member for making these comments about Service Canada officials and our officials, who are doing their jobs to ensure that the integrity of EI remains.
Employment Insurance October 24th, 2013
Mr. Speaker, the decision to dismiss this individual was made by department officials. We do support their decision.
Service Canada officials have used the same system to find and stop false EI claims since 1993. That is in order to ensure that Canadians who have paid into the EI system will have it there when they need it.
This also gives me the opportunity to talk about our government's job creation. Unemployment rates are at their lowest since September 2008. That is good news for Canadians.
Not Criminally Responsible Reform Act June 17th, 2013
Mr. Speaker, in July 2008, just outside of Portage la Prairie, Tim McLean was brutally murdered on a bus by Vince Li, who was later deemed not criminally responsible.
As members can imagine, this is something that is very important in my riding of Portage—Lisgar and in the province of Manitoba, as well as for Canadians across the country.
I want to ask my hon. colleague if he could talk a little about what this bill would do for victims and for their families. I am thinking of Tim's mom, Carol de Delley, who I have talked to many times. She has worked tirelessly. She is not only dealing with her horrendous grief, which never ends, for what her son had to endure and how her son died, but is also going through all of the fallout from it, with Vince Li going through different appeal processes and now being given passes.
I wonder if my colleague could talk very specifically about victims, and how this bill can help support them while not assigning blame to somebody who has been deemed not criminally responsible.
Public Safety June 14th, 2013
Mr. Speaker, it is our government that has introduced legislation to get tough on gangs, guns, and crimes that are occurring in cities like Toronto and elsewhere.
Every time we introduce this legislation, the opposition opposes it. Every time the opposition members are standing up for criminals instead of the victims.
On this side of the House, we stand up for victims. We want to make sure that criminals stay in jail and that the revolving door stops. That is why our legislation has passed. It is why Canadians support our stance of being tough on crime, and not the old Liberal way of doing things.
Public Safety June 14th, 2013
Mr. Speaker, our government has created new legislation to keep dangerous criminals in jail, we have added almost 3,000 new RCMP members to the front-line forces and we are giving the RCMP the tools to fight things like sexual harassment within the RCMP.
We have the leader of the NDP trying to intimidate a female RCMP member who is protecting us on the Hill. We also have a member of Parliament, the member for Timmins—James Bay, calling a female RCMP officer a "meter maid". It is despicable. The members of the opposition cannot be proud of that. The NDP leader needs to apologize, as does the member--
4-H Canada June 14th, 2013
Mr. Speaker, in 1913, E. Ward Jones and deputy minister of agriculture, George Black, started the first 4-H Boys and Girls Club in Canada. The club started in Roland, Manitoba, which is located in my riding of Portage—Lisgar.
Roland was the first 4-H head, heart, hands, health club in Canada. Today there are 160 clubs in Manitoba, more than 2,200 members and 23,000 youth involved in 4-H in Canada .
For 100 years, 4-H programming in rural communities has been helping youth to build confidence and learn skills in agriculture, homemaking, public speaking and leadership. Today when members look at their community, they will find many rural leaders who had their start in the 4-H program.
The 4-H leaders volunteer their time to the organization because they believe in its value and want to continue its traditions.
As we all join together to congratulate 4-H Canada in its 100th year anniversary, let us all try to remember its motto and “learn to do by doing”.