Foreign Affairs  Mr. Speaker, I do not understand why the Prime Minister has a problem with a secret ballot. Five prime ministers had a secret ballot at the UN, and five prime ministers succeeded. Five prime ministers had clear principles on Canadian defence. Those five won seats. Why did

Immigration   are abusing our good will and our immigration system. This must stop. Our Conservative government will take fair and reasonable action to prevent the abuse of our immigration system by human smugglers. Our government will send a clear message: Canada opens its doors to those who work hard

Strengthening Aviation Security Act   in information giving, not sharing. It is a one-way flow of information from Canada to another country. With the stroke of a pen and an order-in-council, they can give out the private information of Canadians to any country they choose. That point is clear enough in the bill as drafted, so

Strengthening Aviation Security Act   that only safe passengers fly? Our closest allies should be able to trust that, when the Canadian government allows someone to board a plane, that person has been cleared and is not a threat to their country or to ours. In allowing this information to be transferred, is the government

Industry committee  Just to be clear, a vote of yes is a vote to support the chair's decision.

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to make this clear. What we voted on was not whether we liked the name of the bill. It was whether the chair followed correct procedural elements. That's why I voted the way I did. Also, the suggested Consumer Confidence in Measurements Act.... I

Ending Early Release for Criminals and Increasing Offender Accountability Act  , to say to police officers and firefighters, “We do not care about you”. Four years they have been waiting. Every year they come to Parliament Hill. Every year they get the back of the hand from the Conservative government. The Auditor General's report is very clear about the kinds

Industry committee   testimony by Measurement Canada. It's clear that it may be two to two and a half years before this actually rolls out, before the inspections are done. Is that correct, Mr. Cotton?

Transport committee   in infrastructure--and I think it's very important for us to make this clear--is that it's not a job strategy for the next 10, 15, or 20 years. Infrastructure is the backbone of an economy that can create jobs, and that economy obviously needs a competitive tax system, good businesses

Public Accounts committee  Ms. d'Auray, you are telling me that that is what is written in the legislation, but in the end is this not a matter of priorities? Do all the i's have to be dotted in order for it to be clear that this is a priority, and if all the i's have not been dotted

Industry committee  . Proposed subsection 29.11(2) is not to be amended by anything that we have said here, and would continue to read: The purpose of a penalty is to promote compliance with this Act and not to punish. I made it very clear as to why, the intent, the purpose. I have been concerned

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Chair. As we note in the audit, we really looked to see whether the legislation had been implemented, but we didn't look to the effects, for two reasons. One is that it's quite clear in the mandate of the Auditor General that we don't do effectiveness reviews; we

Public Accounts committee   managers aren't particularly clear on a few of the rules on hiring. Could you explain what the government is doing to address that particular issue?

Health committee   stored for personal use. It's very clear now that the actions for an inspector are confined, first of all, to the legislation, and that goods stored for personal use, for example, are outside of the realm of what the inspectors could look at. In addition, there was some concern about

Industry committee  I'm saying “examination” because my understanding of the current wording for the concept of inspections--and I may be off base here.... Because of the Jarvis decision, there has to be a clear designation of when an inspection becomes an investigation, and “examination