Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I am rising today to speak to the Conservative opposition day motion on the Kinder Morgan pipeline. I will also be talking about sustainability, because I just heard the minister responsible for natural resources try to appropriate to himself the teachings of first

Points of Order  Mr. Speaker, I too would like to rise on a point of order. Earlier, the Minister of Canadian Heritage suggested that Ms. Meilleur never admitted to talking with Gerald Butts about her appointment as commissioner. As the quote clearly proves, she said that she talked with Gerald

Democratic Reform  Mr. Speaker, she is the right candidate for the Liberals because she is a Liberal, period. The Liberals were supposedly elected to do politics differently. They were not going to act like other governments before them, that is by saying one thing to get elected and something com

Canada Revenue Agency  Mr. Speaker, what a disgrace. Five weeks after KPMG was ordered to maintain all records during an ongoing investigation, a group of offshore shell companies set up by KPMG went ahead and shredded documents related to that probe. This is the very definition of obstruction of just

Government Appointments  Mr. Speaker, Ms. Meilleur admitted that she attended inappropriate meetings with Gerald Butts and Katie Telford, the Prime Minister's chief advisers, outside the official appointment process. Yesterday, the NDP proposed conducting a committee investigation into the appointment pr

Government Appointments  What a crock of nonsense, Mr. Speaker. Madame Meilleur told the committee that she did not know if she would be able to recuse herself from future investigations of the Prime Minister to whom she directly donated. Well, we have just learned that the interim commissioner has ha

Government Accountability  It is the wrong card, Mr. Speaker. We are not on the middle class; we are talking about the parliamentary budget officer. In fact, the Liberals are so close to listening to reason that they passed a Liberal amendment that would do the exact opposite of what they thought it did.

Infrastructure  Mr. Speaker, the only suggestions the Liberals are open to are Liberal suggestions, even if they make no sense. I got it. When it comes to the infrastructure bank, the Liberals are no longer even pretending they are open to improving or changing it. This is a multi-billion dolla

Infrastructure  Mr. Speaker, I have a quick question for the minister. He just told us that the municipalities and the provinces want his bill, which is essentially a steamroller. The infrastructure bank is going to steamroll over the municipalities and the provinces. Does he have the nerve to

Government Accountability  Mr. Speaker, Madeleine Meilleur is being appointed because she is a Liberal, period. The Leader of the Government in the House of Commons said, and I quote, “Our government welcomes suggestions on ways to improve the bill, and we are open to amendments to ensure we accomplish th

Government Appointments  Mr. Speaker, it is not about Madeleine Meilleur's integrity or her experience; it is about a fake consultation process. The Prime Minister has just chosen a Liberal minister to be the official languages commissioner. Ms. Meilleur wanted to be a senator, but the Prime Minister ma

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, the Liberal House leader rises every day to defend her own boss's ethical scandals. How can she possibly have the credibility to choose the next Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner when this person will most likely continue investigating her boss? If the P

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, the reason the Liberal House leader is forced to stand and defend the Prime Minister day after day is that there is no minister for ethics on the government side. That is why we have an Ethics Commissioner. The independence of the Ethics Commissioner is of paramoun

Government Appointments  Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have lost all credibility on independent appointments by choosing a Liberal minister as commissioner. If the Liberal government had chosen, say, a former Conservative, it would have shown it was serious about accountability and moving beyond partisanshi

Government Appointments  Mr. Speaker, the Liberals could not care less about their conflicts of interest. That is what you call arrogance. The Prime Minister just appointed a Liberal minister to the position of Commissioner of Official Languages. Mrs. Meilleur said, “I thought I could contribute as a se