Supply  Mr. Speaker, I find it interesting that, once again, an hon. member from the Liberal Party should be criticizing, when his party is in power in Canada and in Ontario, a government that made possible enormous progress in a period of extreme economic difficulty, from 1990 to 1995.

Supply  Madam Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the member for Hamilton Centre. I would like to begin my speech on this important motion on mandatory emission standards and talk about why voluntary emission standards have not worked. We have seen this in other areas as well. We have seen it in the voluntary program for energy efficient homes, a program that was started in 1982 and that members of the government raised a number of times in the debate today.

Supply  Madam Speaker, I found the comment of the Minister of Natural Resources that he is inspired by the work of the Minister of the Environment very interesting. We have a 20% increase in greenhouse emissions when the plan calls for a 20% decrease. If that is inspiring, then obviously he is inspired by failure.

Auditor General's Report  Mr. Speaker, the Auditor General made it crystal clear in her report today that the government is hiding from the Auditor General unaccountable foundation money. Eleven recommendations were made by her and seven were rejected by the government. So much for working with Sheila.

Department of International Trade Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Vancouver East for a very eloquent presentation on the reasons why Bill C-31 is inappropriate. I thought some of her comments were very pertinent to the debate. Being a fellow member of Parliament from British Columbia, the hon. member and I have seen the actions of the B.C.

Patent Act  Mr. Speaker, without taking all the time remaining to me, I would like to get to my conclusion. In my speech on this important bill, I mentioned all the contributions made by the hon. member for Windsor West to the former Bill C-9. It is a very important act, which, as we know, is affected by Bill C-29.

Patent Act  Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak to Bill C-29. I will start by coming back to the work that the member for Windsor West did on the initial legislation. The initial regulations were badly flawed, I think it is fair to say, in the original bill that was proposed. The member for Windsor West, who is a member of the NDP caucus, submitted over 100 amendments and was instrumental in improving the bill.

Patent Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for Churchill for her intervention which as always was very succinct, to the point and effective. I know she is aware that there were significant amendments brought forward by the member for Windsor West who improved what was a badly flawed bill in the beginning.

Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act  Madam Speaker, the comments by the member for Nanaimo—Cowichan in this extremely important debate on the future of health care were very thoughtful. I was particularly touched by her comments around the possibility of big box, credit card, for profit health care coming to Canada given that the Liberal government has not applied for a WTO exemption on health care.

Department of International Trade Act  Mr. Speaker, the member for Timmins--James Bay is absolutely right. There is a direction and that direction is south and offshore. The direction is loss of jobs. The direction is not respecting human rights and not pushing or having any sort of evaluation of foreign purchase of Canadian companies.

Department of International Trade Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for Joliette for his question. There is a definite problem with the present structure. In my opinion, however, things would be even worse if changes were made or these two departments were divided, which is precisely what the bill is about. The problem is that NGOs do not seem to get any hearing from the government, even if they do ask for help, and that is a pity.

Department of International Trade Act  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the hon. member's question. It was very nice of her. The matter is very clear to us. This division does not make any sense because foreign policy and the overall administration of foreign affairs are currently being reviewed. That does not make sense. Also, since there has been no consultation with those more familiar with the community, it is clear that we are opposed.

Department of International Trade Act  Mr. Speaker, as planned and agreed to by the leaders of the parties in the House, I will take the few minutes that were granted to the hon. member for Sackville—Eastern Shore to continue my presentation, which was interrupted by adjournment on Monday. I am rising to speak to Bill C-31 and continue the intervention that I started on Monday.

Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for Trois-Rivières for her question. There were huge job losses in Quebec. I am talking about 10,000 jobs in the clothing industry and an additional 15,000 jobs in the textile industry. Measures absolutely need to be implemented for these industries.

Supply  Mr. Speaker, that is very clearly what has happened. We had the industry people come here and say very clearly what kinds of things they needed. Given what we knew was going to happen on January 1, the government did absolutely nothing. It dithered and dithered and dithered some more.