Justice for Animals in Service Act (Quanto's Law)  Mr. Speaker, Quanto's law is an important step in recognizing the importance of what service animals do. I agree with my colleague from the NDP that we need better protections under the Criminal Code for animals of all types, particularly because law enforcement agents often say that if they find out that someone has been cruel to animals in a sadistic fashion, it can be a predictor of criminal behaviour.

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, due to the numerous time allocations this week and lack of time for petitions, I have three, but I will try to move quickly. The first petition is from residents of Saanich—Gulf Islands who are calling for the end of the winner-take-all voting system in this country, otherwise known as “first past the post”, and calling upon the House of Commons to undertake public consultations across Canada to amend the Canada Elections Act to come up with a fair voting system in which every vote counts.

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, the second petition, again from residents of Saanich—Gulf Islands, deals with the issue of marine protected areas. The petitioners are calling for the creation of more marine protected areas, but also for a simplification of their regulation within Fisheries and Oceans.

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, the last petition, again from petitioners within my own riding, calls for the government to undertake an affordable housing plan and program, engaging the Federation of Canadian Municipalities; and calls for one particular measure to change the tax regime to encourage the building of purpose-built rental housing that would be affordable.

Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, the Green Party is in favour of the motion.

Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1  I am voting yes, Mr. Speaker.

Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, the Green Party is also in favour of this motion.

Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, the Green Party once again votes for our amendment.

Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I am extremely pleased to register that I vote in favour of my amendment.

Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I agree to apply the vote and the Green party votes yes.

Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I agree to apply the vote, and the Green Party votes yes.

Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, as members in this place will know, I am deeply disturbed by the number of measures buried in Bill C-59 that are dangerous for this country and that are extremely anti-democratic, particularly the changes being made post facto, retroactively, to access to information.

Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I regret that it is the Minister of State for Finance who has to answer questions for what is really a move by the Prime Minister's Office and the government House leader to, for the 100th time in this Parliament, shut down debate prematurely. It is particularly egregious when it is done in the case of an omnibus budget bill with many separate sections, none of which received adequate study in committee and now will be rushed through this place.

National Defence  Mr. Speaker, my question is for the hon. Minister of Veterans Affairs, who is taking defence questions today. While I was very honoured to participate at the official opening of 443 Maritime Helicopter Squadron in my riding in April, there are a lot of local concerns about the potential for increased noise as four out of the six aging Sea Kings are retired and nine Cyclone helicopters take over.

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 for access to information, which would be removed even with, as the member pointed out, the full notice from the Information Commissioner to the former public safety minister, Vic Toews, warning him of what was going to occur and receiving from him an undertaking that the RCMP “...will abide by the right of access described in section 4 of the Act and its obligations in that regard”.