Thomas Mulcair

[Ethics, June 17th, 2015]

Mr. Speaker, Carolyn Stewart-Olsen, the senator for Ottawa-Moncton.

Does the Prime Minister agree with his Conservative senator, Jean-Guy Dagenais, who thinks that his office is entitled to claim money from taxpayers for mileage on travel that he admits never took place?

[Ethics, June 17th, 2015]

Mr. Speaker, does the Prime Minister still believe that all senators meet the residency requirements to sit in the Senate? If so, would he be kind enough to tell us where Senator Carolyn Stewart-Olsen lives?

[Public Safety, June 17th, 2015]

Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Prime Minister said that his government, and I quote, “encouraged the RCMP to destroy documents”, even though he knew that that violated the law. The Ontario Provincial Police are even investigating this matter.

Has the Prime Minister communicated with the police to indicate his own involvement in this illegal activity?

[National Defence, June 17th, 2015]

Mr. Speaker, what the Prime Minister just said will not drastically change the culture that has permeated the Canadian Armed Forces. The question was what he personally intends to do about it.

General Lawson's comments are, of course, as wrong as they are a representation of everything that is pervasive in the military.

Will the Prime Minister himself commit to implementing Justice Deschamps recommendations in order to put an end to this toxic culture within our military with regard to sexual assault and sexual misconduct?

That culture is wrong. It has to be changed from the top. Will the Prime Minister act?

[National Defence, June 17th, 2015]

Mr. Speaker, General Lawson said in an interview that sexual harassment within the Canadian Armed Forces was partly due to, and I quote, “biological wiring”. Obviously that statement is completely unacceptable.

What does the Prime Minister intend to do to change this culture of sexual harassment within the Canadian Armed Forces?

[Nothern Development, June 15th, 2015]

Mr. Speaker, the problem is that the Conservatives are once again saying one thing in public and another thing in private.

Meanwhile, the living conditions in aboriginal communities across Canada are absolutely deplorable, and some residents in the north are digging through garbage to find food.

How can we expect the wealthy in African or Middle Eastern countries to do their part to help their fellow citizens when our own Prime Minister here in Canada refuses to do the same?

[International Development, June 15th, 2015]

Mr. Speaker, today the Prime Minister and I are each meeting with Bono and representatives of the ONE campaign to talk about millennium development goals and how we can work together to fight the kind of gut-wrenching poverty that, thankfully, most Canadians will never see.

However, while the Prime Minister is talking about fighting poverty, leaked government documents show that he has abandoned the next round of UN development goals before they have even been adopted.

Will the Prime Minister confirm that he hid the truth from our G7 partners last week, and that his promises to fight extreme poverty around the world are only for show?

[Ethics, June 15th, 2015]

Mr. Speaker, it is a full 90 metres, so that does mean $270,000 of taxpayers' money per senator's step, just so she can help with her calculations.

At least four senators named by the Prime Minister have now been caught lying about where they live. The Prime Minister does not care what provinces they actually lived in; he was only interested in using them as shills and fundraisers for the Conservative Party. In fact, the Prime Minister once said that senators “don't represent anybody but the prime minister who appoints them”.

Why did the Prime Minister appoint this bunch to represent him?

[Ethics, June 15th, 2015]

Mr. Speaker, Canadian taxpayers will have to spend another $25 million because senators are refusing to walk a few extra steps to their offices.

Conservative and Liberal senators have no problem whatsoever travelling all over the country at taxpayers' expense, but they cannot walk a few extra metres.

Will the Prime Minister intervene and tell these corrupt senators that he is not going to waste another $25 million in taxpayers' money because they are too lazy to walk?

[Ethics, June 15th, 2015]

Mr. Speaker, the Auditor General identified 30 more senators who are guilty of fraudulent spending. However, it is important to point out that the report does not include any senators who had already paid back their fraudulent expenses before the investigation began.

How many senators did the Prime Minister's Office protect in that way by telling them to use the Duffy technique, namely, to repay their expenses before the investigation began?

How many others did the Prime Minister protect?