Finance committee  Visa and MasterCard plan to use fixed rates and ad valorem rates based on the value of the transaction. There is mixed information about fees involved in getting their program up and running. But it is clear that the ad valorem concept will be used with the Visa and MasterCard

Finance committee   of proportion, but it is clear that more and more workers are losing their jobs and facing a serious poverty situation. If the federal government had acted more responsibly with the employment insurance fund and had not taken the $57 billion, it could have spent the past few years making

House debate  Mr. Speaker, I want to be very clear about this: the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Vancouver will be bilingual. We will respect both of Canada's official languages and we expect VANOC to do its job. VANOC is in charge. To help out, our government has just provided another

House debate   nation. They have been willing to sacrifice everything for our way of life and we must be there for them in the same way, 100% of the time, without hesitation. Let me be clear. Even one homeless veteran is one too many. That is why our government, through Veterans Affairs Canada, has

Economic Recovery Act (stimulus)   that we are supporting Bill C-51. However, as we have said in the House before, it is clear that the Conservative government has done very little to support our workers during the economic crisis in the past few months.

Economic Recovery Act (stimulus)   of being against support for the automotive industry. That is not at all the case. We never said we were against it; we said we also wanted support for the forestry industry. The member mentioned a number of Bloc proposals. I would like him to clear things up. The government said

Fisheries committee  It would still not happen. The provision is very clear that Canada would have to both ask for it, in the first place, and it would have to vote for it. So if it votes against it, then it doesn't happen. It allows Canada, then, to say, well, we think we want to do, say

Status of Women committee   to the reports of both Amnesty International and the United Nations regarding the hundreds of young aboriginal women who have disappeared or been killed over the past thirty years in Canada. That makes it clear what you're talking about. Would you mind those changes?

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I have a question to Madam Demers. The motion calls on the government to respond. Respond to whom? Is that to Parliament? It's not clear to me who the government is responding to. Is it to the United Nations, to the authors of the reports? It's

Economic Recovery Act (stimulus)   Minister made to Canadians in the 2008 election campaign. When one hears the term “adscam” or recalls the waste and mismanagement of the gun registry, both notorious legacies of the former Liberal government, it becomes clear why the Liberal Party of Canada and its leader would work

Fisheries committee   is very clear that it operates within a recognition of the rights of the coastal state and the sovereignty of the coastal state to manage their fisheries resources within their exclusive economic zone. NAFO gives effect to measures on the high seas outside the 200-mile limit

Human Resources committee   that employment insurance benefits begin to reach long-tenured workers without undue delay. It's quite clear that it is before the break week. The bill should undoubtedly be sent back to the House by Friday, before the break week.

Status of Women committee   to be very clear that this is only for eligibility, it is not the issue of the level of the benefit. The level of the benefit is based on years of residence in Canada. If we sign an agreement with a country and someone from that country moves to Canada and has lived all his life here

Economic Recovery Act (stimulus)   agreement. The NDP was the party that said no to that agreement because it was not in Quebeckers' best interests. We were the ones standing up for Quebec workers. We were the ones who said that the agreement would be catastrophic for the industry in Quebec. Unfortunately, it is now clear

Fisheries committee  . Does that make sense? It's clear as mud?