CPAC, the Cable Public Affairs Channel  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to congratulate CPAC, the Cable Public Affairs Channel, on its 25th anniversary. In 1992, several cable companies joined forces to ensure that Canadians would have access to full coverage of their representatives' work in the House of Commons. This was

Persons with Disabilities  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister promised that, unlike Stephen Harper, he would work with all parties to get good things done. However, when a member of this place moved a non-partisan initiative to create a Canadian autism partnership, the Prime Minister and his party voted again

Indigenous Affairs  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister used to attack Stephen Harper for taking indigenous people to court, but he is contemptuously picking up exactly where Harper left off, fighting first nations' kids in court. The Prime Minister used to say that with a Liberal government, boil

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, during the election campaign, the Prime Minister claimed to be a champion of democratic reform, but that was before he won a majority government with only 39% of the votes. The Prime Minister also claimed to be an access-to-information advocate—even I believed him—bu

Infrastructure  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister says over and over again that he is helping the middle class, but his infrastructure bank will impose tolls and fees on the middle class. Why? This will be so private companies can make money from public infrastructure. The government’s priority sh

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister seems to believe that because the Liberals got 40% of the vote, it is okay if they only keep 40% of their promises. It is not okay. The Prime Minister has been illegally lobbied during his cash-for-access events, and instead of ending this scheme,

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, there is a term for someone who commits to something in writing and then reneges on that commitment. It is called a con job. When the Prime Minister got caught selling access to himself and his ministers in exchange for donations to his political party, he decided

Ethics  “Follow suite”, Mr. Speaker? The Prime Minister himself said that the problem with their fundraising activities was the secrecy surrounding them. We think that selling access to the minister for partisan gain is the problem. Who would have thought? Let us focus for a moment on

Access to Information  Mr. Speaker, Canadians are waiting for accountability and clear answers, but I think it is too much to hope from the Liberals. Let us instead look at a document that does not spin as freely as the Prime Minister can. The Liberals' election platform states, “We will ensure that A

Access to Information  Mr. Speaker, I think it is entirely possible that the Prime Minister does not understand some of the things he says, but is he actually telling us today that he did not understand his own electoral platform? Here is the wording of the promise again, “We will ensure that Access to

National Defence  Mr. Speaker, the question is whether we are going to get it through before the end of term, and we do not have an answer to that. The Prime Minister said he stood by his defence minister's account of the role he played in Afghanistan and that there was no conflict when he blocke

Government Appointments  Now it is an assessment, Mr. Speaker. Yesterday we introduced a motion to remove partisanship from the appointment of officers of Parliament. The Liberals said they welcomed it but had a structural problem with our motion. To show our sincerity, we amended our own motion to addr

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister suggested to Angela Merkel that all references to the Paris agreement be removed from the G20 declaration, and this is a fact, not simply because the German newspaper Der Spiegel confirmed it and then yesterday reconfirmed it but also because the P

Freedom of the Press  Mr. Speaker, there is an easy way to clarify all this, because the Prime Minister could very simply release the text of his part of that conversation with Merkel, but of course, he will not do that, because he knows that it is a fact that he and his government are a fraud when it

Persecution of Roma  Mr. Speaker, in Italy last month, three young Roma sisters were burned to death while they slept. Graffiti celebrating “3 fewer Roma” subsequently appeared on the walls of the capital. This is only one example, and certainly a serious one, of the violence, the hatred, and the pe