Jobs and Economic Growth Act   on the points I have outlined, it is clear that this budget neglects many areas of importance to Canadians. The sheer number of key issues ignored by the Conservatives in this budget is shocking, considering the size of the bill. What is even worse is that, while the Conservative government

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  , linking Canadians, merchants and financial institutions together and facilitating payment transactions through, for example, credit and debit card networks and clearing and settlement systems. In November 2009 our government released for public comment a proposed code of conduct

Firearms Registry  Mr. Speaker, today the member for Ajax—Pickering missed an opportunity to table in the House his motion that would derail Bill C-391 and keep the long gun registry as is. Why is this? It seems that he was too busy playing political games and forgot. The choice is clear on any

Firearms Registry   know that any vote on the long gun registry is clear. Members either vote to scrap it or they vote to keep it. It is as simple as that. We call on all opposition members who voted in favour of Bill C-391 at second reading to listen to their constituents, not the Liberal leader

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I would remind my colleague that the law is the law, and no one is above the law. The government's game is very clear. It is creating a crisis to be able to say that Parliament is not working, while failing to mention that it is the one responsible for the crisis

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate my hon. colleague on his very clear speech on taxation, which could be much greener. I would also like to ask him what he thinks of the initiatives the government has taken, which, I believe, have come up short and will not necessarily

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  . That plan did not work. Could you shed some light on why Russia declined, as it were, to swallow up a smaller neighbour. It is not clear what danger this could have for Russia, but perhaps you see one. If so, could you explain it? Perhaps it would help if the pressure we exert were

Justice committee  I want to thank our witnesses for appearing before us. Your testimony will form part of our deliberations as we move forward with this bill. I'm going to ask you to clear out of the room fairly quickly because we have another in camera session going on right away. Professor

Foreign Affairs committee  , it is a bill of great significance and of tremendous importance to a lot of people. I dare say we've had pretty well as much testimony as the committee needs to hear, and frankly minds have been made up. The government has made it abundantly clear that it will not support this bill in any

Foreign Affairs committee   process that is consistent with the principles of natural justice. Rather than being a pile-on or outrageous or all of these sorts of things, this actually then becomes a forum, if you will, a clearing house. The problem—and I will ask you specifically, Professor Macklin

Foreign Affairs committee  Well, I just want to be clear here. I just wanted to know, for the record, do you receive any money from the EDC? This bill applies to the EDC, so I don't know. You don't receive support from the Canadian government at all. No? Okay. I don't know if Mr. Lunney's read the bill

Information & Ethics committee  . Ms. Andrews is the witness we wanted here today. She isn't here. We don't know why, other than an instruction has been given for her not to be here. When Mr. Togneri was here, he made it very clear that Ms. Andrews was involved with respect to the 139-page document that had been

Information & Ethics committee  : A Guide for Ministers and Ministers of State, which states at page 37: Ministers and Ministers of State are personally responsible for the conduct and operation of their offices. I think those two statements are pretty clear—one in the form of policy, and one in the form

Foreign Affairs committee  In terms of the reach of this statute—and you mentioned something about shipping companies--I'm not entirely clear. Let me give what I think might be an answer based on what I think your question was about. On the issue of what might be called the relationship of intent--how

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee   to opportunities that we may not be engaging. It has been clear what the need is in terms of care giving, and I appreciate how that was referenced. That is certainly good advice that we should put in our report. But concerning research and clinical trials, what are we missing the boat