Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister at the beginning of his term said that he would strive to have a better relationship with the provinces. Today we have heard from five premiers of provinces and one premier from a territory that they in fact have grave concerns about two bills th

75th Anniversary of D-Day  Mr. Speaker, on June 6, 1944, the operation to liberate France began, and today, we commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day. We acknowledge and will never forget the sacrifice that was made by these brave men and women who answered the call to duty without hesitancy to make sur

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the hon. minister for his gracious words. As we are approaching the election in the fall, many of us are in our communities talking to our constituents. One of the topics that continually comes up for me in Milton is the fact that Canadian fami

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, I do not believe Canadians actually agree with the government that it reduced tax liability. What Canadians are seeing is the loss of their ability to deal with their education and tuition costs through a tax credit. They have lost their transit tax credit. They have

News Media Industry  Mr. Speaker, despite the protests of the Prime Minister, the issue here is one of bias. The question is whether or not an entity that has sworn that it likes to elect Liberals, and in fact make sure the Conservatives do not form government, an entity that gave $400,000, and boa

News Media Industry  Mr. Speaker, this is actually embarrassing, that the Prime Minister does not understand the concept of bias on a panel that is making decisions. However, I should not be surprised. This is the same Prime Minister who thinks it is okay to traipse across the line that separates th

News Media Industry  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's decision to appoint Unifor to his panel to determine eligibility for a half-billion-dollar media package has destroyed the government's credibility. Unifor is a highly partisan group and it has very aggressive and partisan goals. It has made cl

News Media Industry  Mr. Speaker, this is a very serious issue. The government has indicated that it is setting up a panel that will have on it an entity that is clearly biased in the government's favour. The entity will be in charge of determining criteria for a half-billion-dollar media bailout pac

News Media Industry  Mr. Speaker, for the Prime Minister to stand there and tell someone who grew up in Cape Breton and is a product of a coal-mining family that she hates labour is absolutely disgusting. I am not afraid to have dirt under my finger nails. I am going to quote one journalist who seek

Justice  Mr. Speaker, yesterday, this House of Commons agreed unanimously and stood and thanked Vice-Admiral Mark Norman for his years of service to this country, as well as apologized for his treatment over the past three and a half years. It was reported by some media this morning tha

Justice  Mr. Speaker, the people who decided to withhold the documents from the defence of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman were this government, plain and simple. It was only because of an abuse of process motion brought forward by the Vice-Admiral that we started to get a look at the documents

House debate  Mr. Chair, that was not the question. My question specifically at the very beginning was whether the minister would order an independent inquiry through his powers under the Inquiries Act. His response was that he already received a report. That is not a report. Would the minis

House debate  Mr. Chair, I am very concerned that the minister and the government are not taking this matter seriously. Let us fast forward to more hearings that happened on March 28 of this year. This time it was a battle over redactions to memos. I would like to know from the minister if we

House debate  I do not know what is worse, Mr. Chair. A minister stands in the House without a grasp on his file and indicates something so wrong and says that a judge made a decision in a case. A judge clearly did not make a decision. I would submit that the minister should go back and take a

House debate  Mr. Chair, what is interesting is that there is actually someone within the justice department who gets this, because justice department counsel Robert MacKinnon told the court in those hearings that it does not matter where the government-related business is being handled. Wheth