Access to Information  Mr. Speaker, from the Liberal platform, “We will make Parliament open by default. We will ensure that access to information applies to the Prime Minister’s and Ministers’ offices.” From an audit released today on how open the government truly is, “...even worse than in the latt

National Defence  Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the government issued new directives on torture. Those directives still allow the use of information obtained through torture. To the NDP, there is no context in which torturing a human being is defensible. How can this Prime Minister, who brags about bei

National Defence  Mr. Speaker, he says that torture is poison, but he is not shy about using the fruits of that poisonous tree. Earlier this year, in this place, the Minister of Public Safety stated that torture was contrary to the charter. He also said, “torture is found to be abhorrent by Canad

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, he is not prohibiting the use of the fruits of torture. That is what is wrong here. What do the Commissioner of Lobbying, the Commissioner of Official Languages, and the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner have in common? All three investigated the Prime Mi

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, it has been almost 10 months since the Ethics Commissioner launched an investigation into the Prime Minister's private billionaire island vacation. It is coming up on a year since the Lobbying Commissioner began looking into Liberal fundraisers hosted by the head of

National Defence  Mr. Speaker, what is the government's logic? The Liberals are opposed to the UN treaty for nuclear disarmament, but they are leaving the door open to participating in an ineffective, dangerous system that will precipitate an arms race. Is that the Liberals' foreign policy? Is

National Defence  Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Prime Minister left the door open to joining American ballistic missile defence, just one month after saying the Liberals would not change their position against such a system. The system is dangerously unreliable, exorbitantly expensive, and it may w

Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, a bilingualism bonus intended to encourage civil servants to learn both English and French has existed for 40 years. A Liberal report is now recommending that the federal government scrap this bonus. Does the Liberal government really plan to eliminate a bonus that

Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, it is difficult to understand the answer given by the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard and what it has to do with the question, which is not very reassuring. He refused to say whether or not they are going to do so. The chair of Impératif f

Marijuana  Mr. Speaker, once again, this is not very reassuring for our bilingualism bonus. Obviously Canada is moving toward legalizing marijuana, and the NDP supports that, but the Liberals have left enormous gaps, and the bulk of the work is being left to the provinces. We know that Can

Marijuana  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has just said today that he is never going to get turned back at the U.S. border, even though he admitted smoking marijuana while he was a member of Parliament. We just want to make sure the same rule applies to all Canadians. Legalized marijuana

Foreign Affairs  Mr. Speaker, the problem is of course that the UN talks are taking place without Canada. The Prime Minister talks a very good game when it comes to world peace, but he refuses to be at the table where we could be playing a role. It is a good thing Lloyd Axworthy did not act this

Foreign Affairs  Mr. Speaker, Saudi Arabia is another issue that this Prime Minister mishandled. Although he made an emotional promise to Ensaf Haidar to take action to help her husband, Raif Badawi, two years later, nothing has been done. In the meantime, his government has allowed the sale of

Foreign Affairs  Mr. Speaker, does the Prime Minister really not understand the difference between a contract to manufacture and his responsibility to sign the export permits? That is what this is about. Canada has a rule under international law that we will not export to countries that are using

Foreign Affairs  Mr. Speaker, at no time since the Cuban missile crisis has the world been more aware of the threat of nuclear weapons. I would like the Prime Minister to cast his mind back to last spring when I asked him about nuclear disarmament, and he told me that it would be well-intention