Procedure and House Affairs committee   Canadian citizen. How would a regular Canadian citizen feel if they were threatened—had not had just offensive language used toward them, but threatened—with no act or no result to counter that threat? How would you feel sitting in your house with that threat being lorded over you

Respecting Families of Murdered and Brutalized Persons Act   of regular Canadians. Like my colleagues, I am here to study Bill C-478, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (increasing parole ineligibility). I have several concerns with this bill and cannot vote in favour of it in its current state. The whole idea of changing sentencing

National Defence committee  Thank you. Gentlemen, one of the matters appearing in the estimates this year that is somewhat bothersome, and is stated in fact in the reports on plans and priorities, is that the government is reducing the amount of education reimbursement to regular Canadian Forces members

Human Resources committee   a previous government that brought it in, for a good reason, because there was a demand for this type of labour. It was needed in certain parts of the country, and it made sense to supplement the regular Canadian workforce. What we're trying to do is look at the changes in this bill

Strengthening Military Justice in the Defence of Canada Act   and to ensure that the people who decide to serve us will not have criminal records for those minor offences—which a regular Canadian would not have—especially after going through a process that is not necessarily fair and equitable. I would have liked to talk about the grievance system

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for being here, Mr. Blais and Mr. Hutton. I want to ask my first question as a regular Canadian. The figures you are giving us are very interesting, but how come they do not reflect the reality? For example, after a long day, you go back

Status of Women committee  Oh, gosh, I get all level of complaints. A lot of people who don't have a particular position, just regular Canadians, raise lots of issues with us about MPs' behaviours and things, sure. Most of those are not covered by our act, but if they are, I will look into it. I have

Consumer Protection  Mr. Speaker, while the Minister of Finance was out there breaking ethics rules lobbying the CRTC in his capacity as minister, thousands of regular Canadians were also out there trying to make their voices heard about a new unfair billing practice. Over 10,000 people have already

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, if indeed the members recognize that there will be cases in which people do not realize that they should have applied for citizenship and so assume that they are being treated like all other regular Canadians, then we need to recognize that we're in a situation

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, while our government is focused on a low tax plan to create jobs, the NDP is pushing a high tax scheme to kill jobs like the NDP's massive carbon tax that will take over $21 billion out of the pockets of regular Canadians and kill jobs. Our Conservative government

Finance committee   it happens. That's something we agree with and also believe in. Mr. Sanger, household debt is a big problem right now. The government is pushing towards temporary foreign workers. We have a law that says we can pay them 10% less than regular Canadians. From our position, it's a race

Procedure and House Affairs committee   and enhancing the trust of Canadians in the integrity of their political institutions. We believe that politicians have a responsibility to manage their funds prudently and to make sure that they are borrowing and spending within the means of their campaigns. Regular Canadians must manage

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. I was part of an e-consultation in 2002-2003 when I chaired the subcommittee on persons with disabilities. It was quite extraordinary to see the response of regular Canadians, particularly those affected in terms of the future of CPP disability. The future of CPP

Bill C-11 committee   of consumers. This is why over 50,000 people have signed the OpenMedia.ca petition to not lock down the Internet. We're not talking about pirates here. We're talking about regular Canadians and their regular use of the Internet. The purpose of this amendment is to create a blanket

Justice committee  Well, this is part of the problem, I suppose, and part of our general concern. The power of citizen's arrest requires a regular Canadian citizen to hopefully have some knowledge of the law, but if they don't, then they're on their own in determining certain things