International Trade committee  Not only will it help maintain exports to this country; it will also help maintain economic sustenance for the municipalities that depend on this income and the maintenance of these 200,000 jobs. I'm open to any questions to clear up or go any deeper into any of these aspects. Thank you very much.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  All right. Thank you both for clearing that up. Thank you, Mr. Russell, for your proposed amendment under clause 2. I would like to give the ruling now on this particular amendment. Bill C-3 amends the Indian Act by specifying a new right of registration in response to the McIvor v.

Environment committee  In other words, we have a huge backlog in the system of now overdue recovery strategies, and the multi-species approach has been totally underutilized to help clear this backlog. Past federal reviews have recognized that the single-species approach to recovery is slow and inefficient overall, but four years later remarkably little concrete progress has been made.

Finance committee  Paillé, there is no risk of the Bank of Canada making changes too quickly or too slowly. Our objective is very clear, as you have just stated. It is a rate of inflation measured by an overall CPI of 2%. This is not a religion, but a mandate from the people of Canada, represented by the government of Canada.

Finance committee  I would generalize it, because we have been clear.... We generalize in global imbalances, but I want to talk specifically about fiscal: very much the risk is getting the balance right on fiscal policy. That means both: accelerating the fiscal adjustment too quickly or delaying it too long, in a number of major economies, the United States perhaps being the most prominent.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The amendment would allow any person born before April 17, 1985, to be registered under paragraph 6(1)(a) of the Indian Act if that person was able to identify an ancestor who was, at the time of his or her death, entitled to be registered, which obviously increases significantly the number of persons entitled to registration under the Indian Act. I would point out that I'm not clear personally on the purpose of the last three and a half lines of the proposed amendment, which read, “or of a person referred to in paragraph 11(1)(a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f)”. This is a reference to the previous act and not to the current legislation.

Finance committee  That brings me to your question, which is a very welcome and important one. To be absolutely clear, a large portion of this debt that was recently run up--not all of it, but a large portion of it--has been related to the housing market. It was not purely for housing purchases, but was related to the housing markets in two ways: first, conventional mortgages, and second, personal lines of credit that have been secured against houses, the so-called home equity loans.

Afghanistan  In fact, today we have evidence from respected Brigadier General Richard Blanchette, who said: We know full well that Canada's enemies are ready to use that kind of information against our troops that are deployed there. That is why there have been certain delays in producing those documents. That is very clear. I wish the hon. member would keep that in mind when he is asking for disclosure of some of these items.

Ethics  If the member has any evidence to suggest someone has not, he should send it to the independent commissioner of lobbying that this government established. I should be very clear that no government money was given to any individual with respect to the allegations he raises.

Lobbying  Mr. Speaker, let me be very clear. The green infrastructure program is administered by my department. I am responsible for it at the beginning of the day and at the end of the day. I asked my parliamentary secretary to assist me in my responsibilities.

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, let us be very clear. It was this government that brought in the Federal Accountability Act and increased accountability in Ottawa. We put in place an independent Lobbying Commissioner to make these types of determinations.

Firearms Registry  However, the member for Yukon said on the weekend through his spokesman that the Liberal leaders's plan to force MPs like himself to support the wasteful long gun registry is “excellent”. This kind of flip-flopping by the member for Yukon is totally unacceptable. His choice is clear: he votes to keep the long gun registry or he does the right thing and votes to scrap the long gun registry. It is that simple. The Liberal member for Yukon should do the right thing.

Bill C-3--Gender Equity in Indian Registration Act  Measures have been identified in all goodwill and in context by the witnesses we have seen in this very short time period since the committee has had this bill in front of it. It has become very clear to me and I am sure to all members that the only way forward to address these other measures is a more expansive discussion with aboriginal leadership. We saw in committee that there is not really a consensus, even among some of the different voices we heard.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  But if it's phrased in such a way that it has permanence--for example, this House considers that it is a violation of its privileges to be prorogued for longer than such and such a period of time, in grandiose words that the British Parliament might use--then it would be clear from the resolution that it was intended to go on, that it wasn't just temporary.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Those kinds of glitches weren't considered. What do you do if right after an election it's not absolutely clear who might be able to demand the confidence of the House? So the government that was in office before the election continues to meet. It meets the House, and when it meets the House it proposes its throne speech and has a debate on the throne speech, and that's when it's defeated.