Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to Passport Canada: what was the total number of passport applications received in each year since 2006 inclusive, broken down by (i) in-person location, (ii) Service Canada receiving agent location, (iii) Canada Post receiving agent, and (iv) mail?

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to materials prepared for past or current Parliamentary Secretaries or their staff from April 1, 2013, to the present: for every briefing document or docket prepared, what is the (i) date, (ii) title or subject matter, (iii) department’s internal tracking number?

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives have admitted that there has been no progress in the fight against the underground economy in the past five years. What are they proposing? A committee with no targets. What is more, for the past two years, they have been blocking requests from the

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, in 2009, the Prime Minister made a formal commitment to significantly reduce greenhouse gases by 2020. Yesterday, the Minister of the Environment said that we would completely miss that target unless we regulate the oil and gas industries. The Prime Minister was in

Citizenship and Immigration  Mr. Speaker, five years after the terrible earthquake in Haiti, the Conservatives are lifting the moratorium on deportations to Haiti and Zimbabwe, while today, on the government's website, they are warning Canadians. This announcement concerns 3,500 people who have integrated i

Status of Women  Mr. Speaker, 25 years ago tomorrow, a killer shot 14 students at the École Polytechnique in Montreal. They were killed simply because they were women. Now, 25 years later, how are we doing at protecting Canadians? People who sell firearms, including the kind used during the Écol

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to government funding, for each fiscal year since 2007-2008 inclusive: (a) what are the details of all grants, contributions, and loans to any organization, body, or group in the electoral district of Bourassa, providing for each (i) the name of the recipient, (ii) th

An Act to amend the Statistics Act (appointment of Chief Statistician and long-form census)  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise in support of Bill C-626, An Act to amend the Statistics Act (appointment of Chief Statistician and long-form census), introduced by my colleague from Kingston and the Islands. As parliamentarians, we have a duty to develop the best possible pol

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, we learned that a Canadian crown corporation used an aggressive tax avoidance scheme to avoid paying $20 million in taxes in Germany. Climate change, international development, the United Nations and now taxes: the Conservative government keeps tarnishing Canada's re

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, in budget 2013, the Conservatives used Thomas and Colleen as a model, middle-class family with two children. They earned $45,000 and $75,000. Today, income splitting will not provide any benefit to their very definition of a middle-class family. However, the Prime M

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, I think we need to watch the level of language in the House. Many independent think tanks, and the late former Conservative minister Jim Flaherty as well, spoke out against income splitting, saying that it would benefit only the richest of the rich. The original pla

Health  Mr. Speaker, Canada promised $60 million to help fight Ebola in West Africa, but just $4.3 million has been sent. Why? We are talking about 4,500 deaths and 9,000 cases. Is that not alarming enough? When will the Conservative government make that money available?

Health  Mr. Speaker, the Ebola virus continues to wreak havoc in West Africa day after day. Canada promised to send medical supplies. Those supplies are still here. Why? Now that the virus is at our door, Canadians are worried. Of the five labs that are designated to screen for Ebola, o

Ulrick Chérubin  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Ulrick Chérubin, the mayor of Amos, who passed away last Thursday at age 70. He came to Canada from Haiti, his birthplace, in 1970. Three years later he moved to Amos, where he taught several generations of its residents. He switched

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, we all know that Revenue Canada is losing billions because of widespread international tax evasion, but what are the Conservatives doing? They are dismantling the teams of experts who counter this phenomenon and harassing charitable organizations that disagree with t