Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet

[Business of Supply, June 4th, 2018]

Mr. Speaker, we ask that the division be deferred until tomorrow, Tuesday, June 5, 2018, at the expiry of the time provided for oral questions.

[Federal Sustainable Development Act, June 4th, 2018]

Mr. Speaker, the NDP will also be voting yes.

[Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 1, June 4th, 2018]

Mr. Speaker, the NDP agrees to apply the vote and will vote no.

[Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 1, June 4th, 2018]

Mr. Speaker, the NDP agrees to apply the vote and will vote no.

[Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 1, June 4th, 2018]

Mr. Speaker, the NDP agrees to apply the vote and will vote yes.

[Export and Import Permits Act, May 31st, 2018]

Mr. Speaker, it seems to me that we were talking about exporting arms to other countries, so my questions will be related to that.

What is the use of legislation on arms export permits when more than half the arms sold by Canada are sold to the United States, a country that has not signed the Arms Trade Treaty and whose president has decided to relax the rules for arms exports? Does the member believe that this is in keeping with the letter and the spirit of the treaty?

[Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 1, May 31st, 2018]

Madam Speaker, speaking of children and grandchildren, I wonder whether my colleagues, especially the one who gave the speech, realize that 1.15 million children in Canada live in food insecurity.

In the meantime, the Liberal government is spending $4.4 billion of our tax dollars to buy a pipeline that will end up costing even more. There are also the deductions for stock options that cost the federal government roughly $800 million a year.

I have a question for my colleague. Does he agree that the federal government should have kept its promise to limit the stock option deductions, which are costing us so much?

[Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 1, May 31st, 2018]

Madam Speaker, during question period today, my colleague from Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot asked a question about the spring gap. The story she told us was so sad. In the Maritimes, people are going to church to pray for a miracle because they have no more money to feed their families. There is nothing about employment insurance in this budget, nor is there anything about it in Bill C-74.

Does my colleague think that, instead of waiting and cutting taxes for the rich, the federal government should have done something about the employment insurance spring gap?

[Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 1, May 31st, 2018]

Mr. Speaker, I want to begin by quoting Mark Hancock, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, on budget 2018:

Canadian women have waited long enough for pay equity. If the prime minister is serious about this commitment, we hope he’ll be encouraging the remaining provinces to follow suit with their own legislation so that women working in all sectors of the economy don’t have to wait any longer.

There is nothing in the budget for pay equity. I am talking about pay equity, not the other programs. In Quebec, we have legislation on that. There is nothing about pay equity in Bill C-74, the budget implementation bill, either. The Liberals claim to want to improve life for the middle class.

Does my colleague think that the Liberals take women seriously?

Does this mean that the Liberals think that women are not part of the middle class or should not be part of it?

[Federal Sustainable Development Act, May 29th, 2018]

Mr. Speaker, I am curious what my colleague has to say about the fact that the federal government just spent $4.5 billion of taxpayer money to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline.