Aboriginal Affairs  Mr. Speaker, the preservation of language is an essential aspect of cultural heritage. More than 60 first nations languages are spoken from coast to coast to coast in Canada. This unique and fundamental part of Canada's cultural mosaic must be preserved. What is encouraging is t

Financial Literacy  Mr. Speaker, I will begin by underscoring that we are supportive of this motion. I have worked very closely for some time with the member for Edmonton—Leduc and I am pleased he is bringing it forward. It bears mentioning, so that folks can recall what is in the motion, that this

Government Priorities  Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives continue to deceive Canadians. They did it with election fraud, and they are doing it with the budget. They are releasing spending estimates, but they are refusing to show us what major cuts they are planning. We know this is coming, and Canadian f

Government Priorities  Mr. Speaker, fake lakes, fake new citizens, fake election officials and now fake job figures. At least the Conservatives are consistent on that side of the House. They have lost 60,000 in a few months. They will not say what they are cutting but we know from the estimates that fo

Government Priorities  Mr. Speaker, the IMF can count all right. It ranked Canada for economic projections in 2012 152nd worldwide. That is a failure. Now the OECD, Moody's, Fitch, and the IMF all say that the cuts will drive the economy back into recession and yet the Conservatives want to steamroll

Canada-Jordan Economic Growth and Prosperity Act  Mr. Speaker, as you know, that was very unparliamentary language. I would be pleased to answer the parliamentary secretary's question, but I would ask her withdraw her unparliamentary language.

Canada-Jordan Economic Growth and Prosperity Act  Mr. Speaker, I was just accused of being dishonest. As you know, that is not parliamentary language. I like the hon. member. I understand that maybe on the other side of the House things are getting a little wild. That is okay, but I would ask her to withdraw--

Canada-Jordan Economic Growth and Prosperity Act  I answered it five times.

Canada-Jordan Economic Growth and Prosperity Act  Mr. Speaker, I am going to speak softly because I heard a complaint from the Minister of Foreign Affairs that I was speaking too loudly. It is an important wake-up call and New Democrats make sure everyone in the House can hear us. I addressed this yesterday and I will address i

Canada-Jordan Economic Growth and Prosperity Act  Mr. Speaker, that is a very good question and the best one thus far. I thank the member for Jonquière—Alma, the only member to this point who listened to my presentation. I know that I am not the most interesting speaker, but I had hoped that the members would at least listen to

Canada-Jordan Economic Growth and Prosperity Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for his question. I appreciate hearing from him again. We worked together on the trade committee, as he mentioned. The member is actually talking about two different things. He is talking about FIPAs, foreign investment protection agreements, whi

Canada-Jordan Economic Growth and Prosperity Act  I can see the Conservatives are waking up again, Mr. Speaker. That is good. I am happy to hear that. This is the type of information exchange that will hopefully lead to progress in our country. However, DFAIT could not produce the figures in real terms. A dollar is not a dollar

Canada-Jordan Economic Growth and Prosperity Act  Mr. Speaker, we have seen the Liberals' slavish devotion to everything the Conservatives bring forward, which is a big reason why they are down in that corner of the House of Commons. Every time the Conservatives brought forward a bad deal, badly negotiated, something we could se

Canada-Jordan Economic Growth and Prosperity Act  Mr. Speaker, the real question is this. When have the Liberals ever voted against a Conservative bad bill? As members know, the softwood lumber sellout cost 60,000 jobs across the country. The Liberals voted for it even though they knew it would lead to the hemorrhaging of jobs

Canada-Panama Economic Growth and Prosperity Act  Mr. Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North is very intelligent. I was not impugning at all on his intelligence. He is an intelligent and effective member. I was questioning his alertness during my speech. That is all I was questioning.