Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my friend from Kings—Hants, particularly for taking some time to walk through with some degree of detail the extraordinary legislative alchemy that magicians across the aisle propose to do. They propose to magic away laws that are currently in place f

Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North allows me to point out that, under this Conservative administration, the treatment of legislation through the House amounts to contempt of Parliament. There has been a series of abuses, from the use of omnibus budget bills to time alloca

Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, my assessment is that we have missed that train. That train is out of the station. The member has raised a very important point. Last year, 2014, was the first year ever, in terms of global finance, that the investments in clean tech and renewables outpaced investme

Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to speak at report stage. I understand I am speaking to my amendments that were the deletion amendments and that substantive amendments that I put forward still await a ruling. As I have the floor now, just in brief response to the point

Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1  seconded by the member for Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour, moved: Motion No. 148 That Bill C-59 be amended by deleting Schedule 1. Motion No. 149 That Bill C-59 be amended by deleting Schedule 2.

Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1  , seconded by the member for Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour, moved: Motion No. 112 That Bill C-59 be amended by deleting Clause 164. Motion No. 113 That Bill C-59 be amended by deleting Clause 165. Motion No. 114 That Bill C-59 be amended by deleting Clause 166.

Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1  , seconded by the member for Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour, moved: Motion No. 28 That Bill C-59 be amended by deleting Clause 59. Motion No. 29 That Bill C-59 be amended by deleting Clause 60. Motion No. 30 That Bill C-59 be amended by deleting Clause 61. M

Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1  , seconded by the member for Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour, moved: Motion No. 48 That Bill C-59 be amended by deleting Clause 87. Motion No. 50 That Bill C-59 be amended by deleting Clause 88. Motion No. 51 That Bill C-59 be amended by deleting Clause 89. Mo

Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1  , seconded by the member for Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour, moved: Motion No. 10 That Bill C-59 be amended by deleting Clause 41. Motion No. 11 That Bill C-59 be amended by deleting Clause 42. Motion No. 12 That Bill C-59 be amended by deleting Clause 43. Mo

Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1  ,seconded by the member for Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour, moved: Motion No. 2 That Bill C-59 be amended by deleting the short title.

Points of Order  Mr. Speaker, as you will know from a letter that was delivered to your office yesterday, I seek the opportunity to rise on a point of order to speak to the pending decision that you will be making on the appropriate nature of the amendments that I have tabled in relation to repor

Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act  Mr. Speaker, members will know that the 99th time we have time allocation used marks a new low point for democracy in this Parliament and that the rights of members in smaller parties are more infringed upon than those of others, because we will have less opportunity to debate du

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, not being a member of the committee, I was very interested in the member's observations. I am particularly concerned about the number of veterans with post traumatic stress disorder who have told me that they are not able to get something they believe would be of gr

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present three petitions. The first is on the subject of climate change, apropos of today's developments at the G7. The petitioners from my riding call for significant reductions in greenhouse gases on the path to decarbonization, to get to at least 8

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, the second petition is on the subject of human rights and the People's Republic of China's abuse of the rights of people who practise Falun Gong and Falun Dafa.