Jinny Sims

[Employment, April 7th, 2014]

Here we go again, Mr. Speaker, another day, another example of temporary foreign workers being brought in to replace Canadian workers.

Remember RBC, or how about the mine in B.C. that said workers had to speak Mandarin? Today, it is McDonald's bringing in temporary foreign workers while rejecting Canadians.

How many more scandals do we have to have? When will the minister stop allowing companies to bring in temporary foreign workers to do jobs that Canadians are ready and willing to do?

[Employment, April 7th, 2014]

Here we go again, Mr. Speaker, another day, another example of temporary foreign workers—

[Business of Supply, April 1st, 2014]

Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. At no time did I say I did not have any of the information. I said my information may not be as extensive as his.

[Business of Supply, April 1st, 2014]

Mr. Speaker, sometimes I think my colleague across the way protesteth a little too much. What we are talking about here is not the Prime Minister's ability to have friends or that he should not have friends, nor are we questioning his ability to travel with his family on the Challenger jet. What is being debated here today is use of those resources for partisan affairs and for friends of the Prime Minister to be travelling on a government plane. Two hundred and sixty dollars during the peak period just does not cut it. No one believes it.

Whether it is more or less, can my colleague justify that the Prime Minister can use the jet for business other than government business and for business other than transporting his family for security reasons?

[Employment and Social Development, April 1st, 2014]

Mr. Speaker, New Democratic Party MPs want the program fixed and they want it used properly, while the Conservatives are making up data and using it to go after workers' wages. Canadian workers deserve a government that is on their side; so projects like B.C.'s natural gas development means a generation of quality, decent-paying jobs for British Columbians. Why are Conservatives making it easier to bring in even more temporary foreign workers when there are plenty of Canadians who could do the job?

[Business of Supply, April 1st, 2014]

Mr. Speaker, my response is very short and very clear. He was not doing government business and was not on government business. He is a private moneybagger who collects money and raises funds. I do not care if he is the twin brother of the Prime Minister, in this case, or the closest friend he has had since the day he was born. The point is that this is a taxpayer-funded jet, so it has to be business only.

[Business of Supply, April 1st, 2014]

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am always in control. Just to let you know, the request was made of me, and I am asking my colleague across way if he could table those documents to which he has alluded.

However, what I want to say is that we, all of us, have friends. All of us have friends who are very dear to us. Suddenly, however, I am hearing today that this friend is also kind of a nanny and looks after the kids as well.

Guess what: that still does not justify it in this case, because that is not why he was travelling with the Prime Minister. It was not government business. It had nothing to do with endangering the Prime Minister's security or his family's security.

This is abuse.

[Business of Supply, April 1st, 2014]

Mr. Speaker, I have not accessed them. However, if the member could request them and table them, it will save me having to do some digging and research.

[Business of Supply, April 1st, 2014]

Mr. Speaker, I have not accessed them.

[Business of Supply, April 1st, 2014]

Mr. Speaker, I do not have access to all the manifests, but I would be really delighted—