Taxation  Mr. Speaker, that answer had nothing to do with the question that was asked. Former senator Kolber and Stephen Bronfman, the chief fundraiser for the Liberal Party, have ties to a multi-million-dollar trust in the Cayman Islands. That is serious. Tax havens cost us billions of dollars every year and increase inequality.

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, here is a quote: “Mr. Bronfman did nothing wrong. There is not a single wealthy Canadian who has not diversified their holdings through offshore tax havens”. Who said this? It was the Liberal member for Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel. Here is another quote: “There are people who use a legal system and then later confirm that they acted legally”.

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, nobody is above the law, but the law is the problem. We now know that the Liberal Party fundraising chair, Stephen Bronfman, put money in tax havens. He claims that he always acted “properly...including fully complying with all applicable laws”. That is exactly the problem.

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, if it were legal to rob a store, putting more police officers in front of the door would change absolutely nothing. The same logic applies to tax havens. We are being robbed, but it is legal. How great is that? The revenue minister's answers are basically spin. The government is not getting at the root of the problem.

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, hiring more inspectors without changing the current treaties with tax havens will not amount to much. An international consortium of journalists published a list of new names of people who are benefiting from tax havens: the Queen of England, rock stars, Trump's entourage, and, in Canada, the Liberals.

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, the Cayman Islands is the kind of place where there are more bank accounts than people. Members of the middle class and those working hard to join it do not have bank accounts in the Cayman Islands. For those who do not know, Stephen Bronfman was once the head of the Prime Minister's leadership campaign and is the chief fundraiser for the Liberal Party of Canada.

Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question and for his efforts to help workers and retirees. His fight represents the values that are essential to progressives and, of course, our entire New Democratic movement. His question is entirely legitimate. Under pretext of helping the middle class, the Liberals have attacked them instead, by reducing their purchasing power, while maintaining measures that benefit our society's wealthiest and most privileged.

Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, I thank my tireless colleague for the question. He has an excellent attendance record in the House. Unfortunately, inequality is reaching an all-time high in Canada. Over the past 30 years, Canadian workers have helped grow our economy by more than 50%. Productivity and wealth creation have gone up, but workers' income has stagnated.

Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Louis-Saint-Laurent for his question. My answer is simple. I am absolutely outraged that a finance minister can make money off of bills introduced in the House. I am outraged that he is trying to get out of a scandal by writing a big, fat $5 million cheque.

Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 2  I thank the member from Drummond for his support, which has allowed me to have a drink of water. Today, we must debate the budget implementation bill. There are many things we could talk about. Let me go back to the last election. The Liberals told us that interest rates were low and that it was the right time to borrow money and to run deficits in order to reinvest in our infrastructure.

Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, I will continue in the same vein as my Conservative colleagues. I was not so much surprised as offended when I heard that the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner had fined the Minister of Finance for breaking the rules by forgetting to declare his villa in France, which he hid in a company.

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, the scandal surrounding the Minister of Finance has become the Prime Minister's kryptonite. The minister introduced a rotten bill, Bill C-27, which made shares in his company, Morneau Shepell, go up. When the minister was caught red-handed making money while in a conflict of interest, he admitted his guilt and said that he would pay everything back.

Yukon Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment Act  Mr. Speaker I thank my colleague from Yukon for his question and correction. His comment is interesting. Indeed, while stakeholders were unanimous in their opposition to Bill S-6 at the time, in this case, restoring what was needed and demanded by people in Yukon and by several first nations has also garnered unanimous support.

Yukon Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her question. I would say yes, time management is important in conducting an environmental assessment, but in our opinion, we must take the time needed to conduct a proper environmental assessment. It is arbitrary to want to limit any environmental process in an absolute wall to wall manner, as the Conservatives did, because we hinder the people on the ground who must conduct the best possible studies to reach the most informed decisions.

Yukon Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment Act  Mr. Speaker, I would ask for unanimous consent to split my time with the hon. member for Hamilton Centre.