Procedure and House Affairs committee   if right after an election it's not absolutely clear who might be able to demand the confidence of the House? So the government that was in office before the election continues to meet. It meets the House, and when it meets the House it proposes its throne speech and has a debate

Finance committee  Mr. McKay, I must not have been very clear. Evidently, I wasn't. It's simply a question of a calculation formula. There is a formula that's set out in the existing provision. The formula has different factors. One of those factors is this factor A that is being defined

Canadian Heritage committee   extends. I can appreciate where you're coming from on it. It's a big market and you'd like to get in on it. The problem is that the connection directly to music is not clear like it was with audio cassette tapes. Even you yourself would have to acknowledge that.

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay. Just to be clear, Mr. Del Mastro, the proposal is for the levy to extend to digital audio recording devices, that is to say, iPods and MP3 players, not—

Finance committee   section. I hope I made that clear.

Veterans Affairs committee   Canada. So Veteran Affairs Canada was the owner, and it rented out the house for 25 years to the veteran. After 25 years, sometimes earlier, if the mortgage was paid off, the title was transferred to the veteran, who took full and clear possession of the home, and who

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't understand the thinking on this at all, Mr. Angus. It's quite clear that we see this levy and other forms of collective licensing as the way forward. It's not only the way forward for artists. It's the way forward for record companies. It's the way forward for film

Information & Ethics committee   provided for in these pieces of legislation is not clear and perhaps not as independent as it could be.

Canadian Heritage committee   sharing. That's what his point was. But just to be clear, if I can read from his testimony for the record, what he said was: We do support levies like this. We are also a member of the CPCC through our membership in the NRCC. That's the Neighbouring Rights Collective. As we

Foreign Affairs committee   suggested, is that it's good that Canada is starting to get involved in that respect too, but it has to go beyond that. In terms of Meles' promise to make some changes, again, as I said, there has to be accountability. It has to be measurable, and it has to be a really clear target

Veterans Affairs committee   clear regarding the lump sum, but many people have told us that you can't give young people some $200,000 and expect them to be fiscally responsible. As you said, they'll go out and buy a car, or a house, or something, and the money is gone. What happens then? I'd like to hear your

Foreign Affairs committee   of acceptance of diversity, including religious rights. At the same time, there's a clear understanding that society should not be dominated by a single religious extreme idea, where a religious political party would be the rule of the game. So that's what I was referring to.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  This is my last question. Just so I'm clear--and I know you've answered it before, so I apologize, but I might have missed something in interpretation--if one wanted to enact a constitutional amendment to deal with prorogation, would one necessarily have to go the seven

Bill C-3--Gender Equity in Indian Registration Act   not benefit. And if he is in agreement with me, with respect to the fact that at committee the Conservative government of the day did hear that this continues to be discrimination against women? Is the member in agreement that the government members certainly heard that loud and clear?

Foreign Affairs committee   to say, “It doesn't matter. Whatever you want, just do it, as long as you give me access to a few things here and there.” Having said that, it's very clear that 40% to 60% of the current government's budget is subsidized by the western world; therefore, we can have a big influence