Public Service Labour Relations Act  Madam Speaker, we are not here to debate Bill C-43 from years ago. We are debating a bill before the House today on whether to allow members of the RCMP to enjoy the same rights as any other Canadian, which is a secret ballot, the same right to be free of intimidation, free of coercion, and free to choose on their own whether they wish to join a union.

Public Service Labour Relations Act  Madam Speaker, I am sharing my time today with the member for Mégantic—L'Érable. I am very pleased to be following the wonderful speeches made earlier today honouring our colleague, the Leader of the Opposition. I am pleased to speak to the government's motion respecting amendments brought forward by the Senate to Bill C-7.

Public Service Labour Relations Act  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the comments made by the member today. I wonder if she could tell us, specifically, why she thinks a card check system is better than a secret ballot system. We are elected here in a secret ballot. Even things as simple and lowdown as choosing high school councils are secret ballot.

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, several issues that came up in the KPMG report on the infrastructure bank, which the government originally tried to hide, have come to light. Some of the items are governance worries, jurisdictional issues, duplicate work of provinces, new layers of bureaucracy, and the fact that the bank will slow down infrastructure projects.

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, we heard earlier from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities that the government was going to use strategic, evidence-based investments in infrastructure as part of rolling out the money. The Senate committee studying infrastructure just two months ago warned that Liberals could end up wasting billions in infrastructure money because it lacks a detailed strategy and that the only metric that Infrastructure Canada is using to measure success is how much is spent and not what it is getting spent on.

Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 1  Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague from Edmonton—Wetaskiwin for his excellent comments and for his advocacy. His riding actually includes a lot of south Edmonton as well, so I thank him for his work for the city. He is one of the greatest advocates that we have in our country, and certainly in this Parliament, for the issue of autism, and the cut to the support is disgraceful.

Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 1  Madam Speaker, what we are doing to the next generation is an absolute disgrace. I have to go home every Friday night, and I do stay on Fridays, and apologize to my children for the actions of the federal government in jacking up taxes and mortgaging their future. There is not one answer ever from the government as to how we will pay this money back.

Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 1  Madam Speaker, I am very happy to answer that. My son is in grade 12. He is a very strong and bright Conservative, who is already reading Adam Smith. He does not have to be told about that $150 billion because he remembers the Liberal Party, in coalition with the Bloc Québécois and the NDP, demanding that billions more be added to the deficit.

Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 1  Madam Speaker, I am pleased to finish my speech from yesterday regarding Bill C-44, the line of credit bill. I started my speech yesterday with a description of what my oldest son said about the bill when I told him it was $100 billion of debt with which he and his generation would be stuck.

Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I know my time will be short, so maybe I will make up for it by yelling like our friend across the way, the member for Winnipeg North. I would like to rise to speak to Bill C-44, budget 2017, otherwise known as the line of credit bill. Before I get to my reactions to the bill, I want to share with the House someone else's reaction to the bill.

Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, in honour of my colleague, the member for Calgary Shepard, I want to say a Yiddish proverb, that words should be weighted and not counted. I thought of that when I listened to the member's speech. I asked a question previously about the government committing $120 million for charging stations for Teslas and then overlooking many other needed items.

Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, my colleague and a lot of government members wax on about all the money in the budget for social housing. I notice in the budget there is more money for charging stations for millionaires and their Teslas over the next four years than there is for support for northern housing and support for indigenous people not living on reserves or federal lands being made available for social housing.

Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for his well-thought-out speech. He had me going right up until the attack on the energy industry, but apart from that, it was great. The published mandate of the PBO states that it is to provide independent and objective analysis to Parliament.

Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I would like to follow up on the question about the PBO. It says that PBOs are to be independent and non-partisan and to provide support to Parliament, and yet the PBO himself stated with respect to the changes, “Maintaining the Speakers’ control over the PBO using the exact terms by which the Speakers direct and control the Library seems entirely inconsistent with the clause’s stated intention.”

Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I will give my hon. colleague across the way plenty of time to answer this and will not interrupt him. When are you going to balance the budget?