Points of Order  Mr. Speaker, Liberal members are voting yes.

Points of Order  Mr. Speaker, the Liberal members are voting yes.

Points of Order  Mr. Speaker, the Liberal members are voting yes.

Points of Order  Mr. Speaker, the Liberal members will be voting yes.

Points of Order  Mr. Speaker, the Liberals vote yes.

Points of Order  Mr. Speaker, Liberals will be voting yes.

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present a petition against the closure of the Marine Rescue Sub-Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. This petition has been signed by close to 100 members of the Canadian Marine Advisory Council, which is Canada's leading consultative body for all issues affecting maritime safety in Canada.

Search and Rescue  Mr. Speaker, just days before the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans was in St. John's, where he refused an invitation to visit the Maritime Rescue Sub-Centre, members of the Canadian Marine Advisory Council, the body Transport Canada consults on marine safety, were signing a petition in Ottawa, calling on the government to rescind its decision to close the centre.

House debate  Mr. Speaker, it would appear that I am not going to get the answer from the parliamentary secretary any more than I got an answer from the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The reality is, rules were broken. That is the problem I have with how this money from the border infrastructure fund was spent.

House debate  Mr. Speaker, I posed a question back on October 5 to the President of the Treasury Board. He has not risen to answer any questions with respect to G8 spending. Fifty million dollars was spent out of the border infrastructure fund. The money that was spent in the minister's riding really had nothing to do with the border infrastructure fund, so that money should not really have been spent in the minister's riding.

Fisheries and Oceans  Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives sent an SOS warning to Canadian fishers when they went after the three vital S's of the fishery: safety, science and service. They are slashing safety at sea by closing the maritime rescue sub-centres in St. John's and Quebec. They are slashing science by getting rid of the Fisheries Resource Conservation Council.

Ground Observer Corps Wings  Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize James Hodder, formerly of St. Bernard's and now St. Lawrence in my riding of Random—Burin—St. George's. As a postmaster and telegraph operator in the 1950s, Mr. Hodder volunteered as a chief observer with the Royal Canadian Air Force Ground Observer Corps.

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act  Mr. Speaker, Liberals will be voting in favour, including the member for Ottawa—Vanier.

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act  Mr. Speaker, Liberal members will be voting no.

Veterans Affairs  Mr. Speaker, I have written to the government requesting that the October 31 deadline for the Canadian Forces appreciation fare on Marine Atlantic and the quota system be removed. One of my constituents, who recently returned from Afghanistan, inquired about the fare and was told the crossing he wanted to take had its quota of veterans and that he would have to pay.