Postal Services Resumption and Continuation Act  Mr. Speaker, it is my understanding that when a question is asked the answer should actually be of a similar length, and I do believe the minister is actually repeating her speech, and at much longer pace than the member's question.

Postal Services Resumption and Continuation Act  Mr. Speaker, “the sky is falling, the sky is falling”. This is a rotating strike, not the end of the world. At this point, workers have grievances they have brought forth and the current government undermined every step of that by announcing ahead of time that it would intervene.

Canada Post Corporation  Mr. Speaker, the member said the exact opposite in 2011 when Conservatives introduced back-to-work legislation. Mediation is futile if one of the parties is negotiating in bad faith. That party is Canada Post, and the Liberals are giving management even more power with this legi

Canada Post Corporation  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister claims to be a progressive. The labour minister claims to be a progressive. However, one cannot claim to be a progressive when one's actions do not match one's words. Back-to-work legislation is not progressive, especially when it gives Canada Post

Finance  Mr. Speaker, special legislation that forces Canada Post employees back to work is a great gift for Canada Post, which never felt the need to negotiate in good faith. It is also a great gift for eBay and Amazon, which never stopped lobbying the government to put an end to the st

Finance  Mr. Speaker, this week the Liberals outdid themselves in sucking up to big business. First there is this back to work legislation, which was drafted as a big gift to Canada Post executives and to please the eBays and Amazons of this world, while throwing workers under the bus. T

Canada Post Corporation  Mr. Speaker, here is a quote from 2015: “the Harper Conservatives have rolled back many fundamental labour rights that affect workers’ ability to organize freely, bargain collectively in good faith, and work in a safe environment.” That was said by none other than the Prime Mini

Canada Post Corporation  Tough words, Mr. Speaker, and he says them without laughing. If I were a progressive Liberal, I would seriously begin to wonder how I could support a special law that would take away any leverage workers have, that is currently allowing Canada Post to not negotiate in good faith

Canada Revenue Agency  Mr. Speaker, for months, we have been talking about how the Canada Revenue Agency persecutes ordinary Canadians and gives the ultra-rich and corporations the kid glove treatment at tax time. Who else agrees with us? The Auditor General. The Canada Revenue Agency has no compunctio

Canada Revenue Agency  Mr. Speaker, the Auditor General said there is no way to figure out where that $500 million went. The problem with the Canada Revenue Agency is that Canadians who are not rich are presumed guilty until they can prove they are innocent, but wealthy Canadians or those who are part

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, I am glad the Minister of Finance thought it was a good question, but I would have liked an answer. The federal tax rate for large corporations has fallen from 28% to 15% since 2000. The amount of dead money, meaning assets and cash held by those corporations, incre

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, we are hearing some rather concerning rumours about the economic and fiscal update. The Minister of Finance seems to be under pressure from Bay Street to lower corporate taxes, on the grounds that he should keep step with the United States. The problem is that the t

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I cannot answer that last question and tell the member when the Liberals will balance the budget, but I will respond to the first part of his comments. Yes, the Conservative government actually invested at a time when there was a significant economic downturn. My

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I thought I was very clear on that. It is not a matter of investing too much in the infrastructure bank. It is that the government announced during the election that it would have deficits to allow for infrastructure investments, which is, by the way, what we were

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I will be sharing my time with one of my colleagues. I would like to respond to what the parliamentary secretary said in his speech about what Paul Martin did. Paul Martin did work to limit banking deregulation. He also balanced the budget in the 1990s. However, w