Pensions  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister does not seem to understand the real consequences of these OAS changes for real people in Vancouver Quadra, who have told me, “My wife has worked for 27 years and has no pension. Moving the age from 65 to 67 will put more strain on seniors to work

Copyright Modernization Act  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to add a few comments to this important debate. The Liberal Party absolutely believes that Canada's Copyright Act must be modernized. In this era of iPhones, iPads, cloud sourcing and so on, we must have modern laws. That is not the challenge here. The

Copyright Modernization Act  Mr. Speaker, according to recently leaked diplomatic cables, some parts of this copyright bill were designed to address the concerns of American industry instead of the concerns of Canadians, including digital locks. Does the hon. member expect American industries to exert this

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's style of dictatorial federalism is to shut down discussion and try and intimidate anyone who disagrees with him. He has the member for Fort McMurray—Athabasca insinuating that first nations are accepting bribes from environmentalists. While in C

House debate  Mr. Speaker, it was very nice to hear all of those statistics about the tourism industry. Wikipedia or Google can provide them. This is a complete and woeful failure on the part of the Prime Minister and the government in terms of tourism. I will speak on behalf of British Co

House debate  Mr. Speaker, I asked a question previously about Canada's tourism market share in our industry and about the concern that the government's tourism strategy was inadequate. I now have the opportunity to continue and make a few more points in this regard. It is a good thing that t

Vancouver  Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to congratulate my city, the City of Vancouver, which last night won the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' Sustainable Community Award in the category of planning. Through its innovative action plan, the City of Vancouver plans to become the green

House debate  Mr. Speaker, I sat in the same committee meeting when Mr. Sapers and others spoke. Two million dollars are being taken out of the programs for people struggling with drugs. The government is taking power away from judges to look at the circumstances of a crime and determine a fa

House debate  Mr. Speaker, I am rising to continue the debate on a question regarding Bill C-10, and the government's expensive, ineffective and discriminatory approach to crime. I have talked with people in Vancouver Quadra. I have had a stakeholder meeting with key leaders in the community

Ending the Long-Gun Registry Act  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the reasoned tone and logic put forward by the member for Surrey North in contrast to other members who say that because people were killed by knives, there is no need to control guns, or that by registering, someone is imputed to be a criminal, which is

Ending the Long-Gun Registry Act  Mr. Speaker, the Conservative member just made some comments about the inaccuracy of information in the gun registry. What I will point out is that he and his colleagues have been repeating, I do not know how many hundreds of times, completely inaccurate information about the ori

Ending the Long-gun Registry Act  Madam Speaker, I feel compelled to respond to the comments of the Conservative minister on this debate. I find it hugely insulting that the minister considers debate in the House of Commons to be simply to delay and stymie the process. What is he referring to by stymying the pro

Ending the Long-Gun Registry Act  Mr. Speaker, I listened carefully to the member for Red Deer. I thought we would hear a speech without the misinformation and disinformation that I have been concerned about, but unfortunately it was more of the same. In order to highlight that, in 2003 there were 792 deaths in

Ending the Long-Gun Registry Act  Mr. Speaker, the member opposite is part of a party that is not taking action on other kinds of issues where there is scientific evidence of the problem, such as climate change. What do the climate change deniers want to do? They want proof that this increase in temperatures is

Ending the Long-Gun Registry Act  Mr. Speaker, there is an example in which members of the RCMP recently found out that they had mistakenly permitted a Walther G22 rifle and an AP-80, which is in the same family as an AK-47, but, because of the registry, they were able to find out that this dangerous and restrict