Offshore Health and Safety Act  Blame the NDP, Mr. Speaker. I thank my colleague for her question. However, the Conservative government has been in power since 2006, and this is 2014. I do not believe it is really the NDP’s fault that this bill has not previously been brought forward and introduced in the House.

Offshore Health and Safety Act  Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Gatineau raises an excellent point. Just because the government dragged its feet and introduced a bill way too late in the game does not mean we should not debate it with care and diligence. We must do things properly. The bill is almost 300 pages long.

Offshore Health and Safety Act  Mr. Speaker, I have the very great pleasure of rising to speak to Bill C-5, which does have weaknesses—some of my colleagues have already pointed out some of them—but which seems to have drawn a consensus on the part of the labour unions and the provincial governments of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador.

Canada Revenue Agency  Mr. Speaker, it has been reported that the personal information of 600,000 Canadians has been lost, and there have been 2,983 privacy breaches at the Canada Revenue Agency alone. What are the Conservatives doing about it? Absolutely nothing. A laptop containing medical and legal files was stolen in 2012, which is another very disturbing case.

Employees' Voting Rights Act  No, I was not surprised.

Employees' Voting Rights Act  moved: Motions No. 1 That Bill C-525 be amended by deleting Clause 1. Motions No. 2 That Bill C-525, in Clause 4, be amended (a) by replacing line 14 on page 2 with the following: “employee who claims to represent at least 50%” (b) by replacing line 26 on page 2 with the following: “50% of the employees in the bargaining unit” Motions No. 3 That Bill C-525, in Clause 5, be amended by replacing line 39 on page 2 with the following: “the application, at least 50% of the employees” Motions No. 4 That Bill C-525, in Clause 8, be amended (a) by replacing line 17 on page 4 with the following: “sent at least 50% of the employees in the” (b) by replacing line 28 on page 4 with the following: “any person claiming to represent at least 50% of” (c) by replacing line 42 on page 4 with the following: “50% of the employees in the bargaining unit no” Motions No. 5 That Bill C-525, in Clause 11, be amended by replacing line 11 on page 6 with the following: “least 50% of the employees in the bargaining” Motions No. 6 That Bill C-525, in Clause 12, be amended by replacing line 23 on page 6 with the following: “subsection 94(1), at least 50% of the employees” Mr.

Canada Revenue Agency  Mr. Speaker, does that mean that they are using the airplanes as personal taxis 25% of the time? This is shameful. Approximately 3,000 individuals had their personal information compromised by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2013. That is more than all of the other agencies and departments combined.

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions, specifically the Montreal regional office: (a) what are the existing standards and procedures to be followed by employees and directors of the regional office to respond to funding requests; (b) what changes have been made to the standards and procedures to be followed by employees and directors of the regional office to respond to funding requests in the past 10 years; (c) in which months of which years were the changes to the standards and procedures to be followed by employees and directors of the regional office to respond to funding requests implemented; (d) what are the existing standards and procedures to be followed by employees and directors of the regional office to respond to meeting requests from MPs’ offices; (e) what changes have been made to the standards and procedures to be followed by employees and directors of the regional office to respond to meeting requests from MPs’ offices in the past 10 years; (f) in which months of which years were the changes to the standards and procedures to be followed by employees and directors of the regional office to respond to meeting requests from MPs’ offices implemented; (g) what is the complete list of meetings between MPs and employees and directors of the regional office in the past 10 years, broken down by year and political affiliation of MPs; (h) what is the complete list of meetings between representatives of MPs and employees and directors of the regional office in the past 10 years, broken down by year and political affiliation of MPs’ representatives; (i) what is the complete list of meetings between former MPs and employees and directors of the regional office on a subject other than a former MP’s business, in the past 10 years, broken down by year; (j) what are the existing standards and procedures to be followed by employees and directors of the regional office to respond to requests for information by phone from MPs’ offices; (k) what changes have been made to the standards and procedures to be followed by employees and directors of the regional office to respond to requests for information by phone from MPs’ offices in the past 10 years; (l) in which month of which years were the changes to the standards and procedures to be followed by employees and directors of the regional office to respond to requests for information by phone from MPs’ offices implemented; (m) what is the complete list of phone communications between MPs and employees and directors of the regional office in the past 10 years, broken down by year and political affiliation of MPs; (n) what is the complete list of phone communications between representatives of MPs and employees and directors of the regional office in the past 10 years, broken down by year and political affiliation of MPs’ representatives; (o) what is the complete list of phone communications between former MPs and employees and directors of the regional office on a subject other than a former MP’s business, in the past 10 years, broken down by year; (p) what are the existing standards and procedures to be followed by employees and directors of the regional office to respond to requests for information by email from MPs’ offices; (q) what changes have been made to the standards and procedures to be followed by employees and directors of the regional office to respond to requests for information by email from MPs’ offices in the past 10 years; (r) in which month of which years were the changes to the standards and procedures to be followed by employees and directors of the regional office to respond to requests for information by email from MPs’ offices implemented; (s) what is the complete list of email communications between MPs and employees and directors of the regional office in the past 10 years, broken down by year and political affiliation of MPs; (t) what is the complete list of email communications between representatives of MPs and employees and directors of the regional office in the past 10 years, broken down by year and political affiliation of MPs’ representatives; and (u) what is the complete list of email communications between former MPs and employees and directors of the regional office on a subject other than a former MP’s business, in the past 10 years, broken down by year?

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, as long as the Prime Minister continues to appoint people who abuse and deceive honest Canadians, the NDP will continue to ask questions. Senator Meredith was removed from the human rights committee because of his very liberal use of a Senate credit card and because he was often late.

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind members that Bruce Carson was one of the Prime Minister's key advisors. He is best known for devising a scheme for making money on the backs of first nations. Doug Black, who was appointed to the Senate by this Prime Minister, called his illegal lobbying the “secret sauce”.

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, if I understand correctly, we have just heard a new story that Nigel Wright hid things from the Prime Minister. We are starting to see a pattern here. It is hard to believe that Nigel Wright forgot to tell his boss that the man working for him, who advised him and was part of his transition team, had just happened to stop by the office.

Privilege  Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague from Gatineau for her excellent question. Obviously, this says a lot about and is symptomatic of the Conservatives' attitude: they are entitled to their entitlements, they do not need to listen to anyone, anything goes, and the ends justify the means.

Privilege  Mr. Speaker, I thank the opposition House leader for his question. That question is the reason for the debate we have been having for two days. In fact, the member for Mississauga—Streetsville rose in the House and said: I made a statement in the House during the debate that is not accurate.

Privilege  Mr. Speaker, I would like to inform you that I will be sharing my time with the extraordinary member for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine. I would like to congratulate her. It is important that we listen to what she has to say. It will be very interesting, more interesting than what we just heard.

Privilege  It is true, Mr. Speaker, my grandma would never have done that kind of thing. She had more intellectual honesty than that. I am trying to understand what happened between February 6th and 24th. If someone tells the House that he saw people commit illegal acts, why did it take him 18 days to realize he saw nothing of the kind?