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Safe Streets and Communities Act September 22nd, 2011
Mr. Speaker, the hon. member will probably recall in the last Parliament the government telling us that the actual cost of Bill C-25 was going to be $90 million and later it was updated to $2 billion, but the Parliamentary Budget Officer told us that the actual cost would be $9.5 billion over five years.
Could the hon. member tell me why the government will not come clean on the actual costs of justice bills?
Questions Passed as Orders for Returns September 19th, 2011
With regard to the operating budget freeze at federal economic development agencies: (a) what measures were taken to limit spending in the last fiscal year; (b) how many full-time and part-time employees were lost to attrition; (c) how many full-time or part-time employees were laid off as of April 1, 2011; (d) how many full-time and part-time employees have been hired since April 1, 2011; and (e) what programs will be subject to funding cuts as of April 1, 2011?
Questions Passed as Orders for Returns September 19th, 2011
With regard to grants and contributions applications to federal economic development agencies since April 1, 2010, what funding applications were approved by departmental officials but rejected by the Minister's office?
Questions Passed as Orders for Returns September 19th, 2011
What is the total amount of government funding, since fiscal year 2006-2007 up to and including the current fiscal year, allocated within the constituency of Nickel Belt, specifying each (i) department or agency, (ii) initiative, (iii) amount?
Questions on the Order Paper September 19th, 2011
With regard to the death of two workers at Vale’s Stobie Mine in Sudbury: (a) what actions has the government undertaken to investigate the deaths; (b) which department led the investigation of the accident in the mine; (c) what are the preliminary results of that investigation; (d) what corrective measures have been recommended to prevent the recurrence of such an accident; (e) what sanctions, if any, does the federal government intend to impose against Vale; and (f) when was the last federal safety inspection conducted at the Vale mine in Sudbury and what were the conclusions of this inspection?
G8 Summits September 19th, 2011
Mr. Speaker, FedNor employees were involved in the $50 million personal spending project of the President of the Treasury Board.
The minister asked the region's mayors to provide feedback on the funding criteria.
Let us be clear: the mayors were asked to set the criteria for money they would receive.
Will the minister clarify his involvement and that of FedNor employees in the management of this slush fund?
G8 Summits September 19th, 2011
Mr. Speaker, the Auditor General was kept in the dark about the minister's homemade funding process. Deputy ministers signed off on inaccurate statements. The summit management office was misleading about its involvement with funding meetings and the minister went ahead with these slush fund meetings, in the middle of an election campaign. Allocating funding out of the backrooms of constituency offices is not ethical government.
Will the minister finally apologize to Canadians for this abuse of their trust?
Restoring Mail Delivery for Canadians Act June 25th, 2011
Mr. Speaker, my colleague is right. We are in the 21st century. However, the government, along with this member, would like to bring us back to 1946.
Today, modern unions give their members the right to vote on collective agreements, unlike what the government wants to impose on workers.
As the hon. member was saying, back in the 1940s people were starving. There were a lot of people who were hungry back in those days. However, it was because of good trade unions that we were able to raise the standard of living so that people could have a good life and afford to put their kids through college or university and pay for health care. Everything is good, but the government would like to take us back to 1946.
Restoring Mail Delivery for Canadians Act June 25th, 2011
Mr. Speaker, at the outset I want to repeat that this lockout could be over on Monday if the government unlocked the doors.
We all know what collective bargaining means. It means that the workers in those communities will have decent wages that they can spend in their communities on a house, a new car, or at local malls, compared to workers who are not unionized, who are working at minimum wage and have to shop at food banks.
Trade unions are very important to the economy of this country.
Restoring Mail Delivery for Canadians Act June 25th, 2011
Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, I cannot do anything about the first Saturday that my colleague spent in Ottawa. It was his choice to go to a wedding.
However, he cannot blame us for this Saturday. All he has to do is to come down here, walk this way and speak to the man who is pulling the strings. Do not go talk to the puppet, but speak to the man who is pulling the strings. Then this strike would be over on Monday morning.