Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, as everyone knows, this is an 880-page omnibus bill. It weighs several pounds. There are a lot of things in this bill that go far beyond budget implementation. For example, the post office remailers issue has nothing to do with the budget implementation. As a matter

Jobs and Economic Growth Act   committee. There was time to address questions to public servants, heads of crown corporations or ministers such as the Minister of Revenue, the Minister of Energy, and ministers with this type of expertise. Today, we are dealing with an omnibus bill. There are thousands of clauses

Jobs and Economic Growth Act   the government is going to be raising taxes for the travelling public at airports. It is seeking to gut environmental legislation, which my hon. colleague from Edmonton so eloquently spoke of just recently. The government is seeking in an omnibus format to cobble together whatever it has

Jobs and Economic Growth Act   travellers security charge, the ATSC. Together they form just one of six pieces of business that have absolutely no place in this bill. The omnibus budget bill is almost 900 pages long. It includes 24 parts with more than 2,200 sections. It is subject to one debate at second reading

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I know the member is close to being the dean in Parliament. I will have to look at my remuneration package to figure out that $200 remark and will get my assistants to work on it, but I want to ask him a serious question about omnibus bills. We do not use omnibus

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, the $200 reference came from the game of Monopoly. It does not have much to do with what we are doing here today, I do not think. An omnibus bill has a definition generally accepted by the House. The essential defence of an omnibus bill procedure is that the bill

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  . Knowing that it could not pass the minority Parliament and it would be held up, the government seized upon an opportunity to throw it into an 880-page omnibus bill dealing with the implementation of the budget. This has nothing to do with the budget. This is basically an attempt

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I listened very attentively to the member's speech. There is no doubt that, though Liberal members have stood in the House of Commons to criticize this crude omnibus legislation, 12 bills packed into 1, they seem to be supporting it yet again. This has gone on year

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, clearly this is a one-sided debate here. The three opposition parties are debating this 880 page omnibus bill among ourselves. The government has not put up a speaker for two days. When we have questions that we want to ask it about this bill we are not able to do

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I am here today to speak about measures supporting the jobs and economic growth act and budget 2010 and against the NDP delay motions that are currently before the House. The jobs and economic growth act focuses on the economy. My remarks will centre on two

Bill C-9 An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 4, 2010 and other measures

OF THE BUDGET TABLED IN PARLIAMENT ON MARCH 4, 2010 AND OTHER MEASURES SHORT TITLE 1.       Jobs and Economic Growth Act PART 1 AMENDMENTS TO THE INCOME TAX ACT AND RELATED ACTS AND REGULATIONS 2-22.       Income Tax Act 23-25.       Income Tax Regulations 26-28.       Canada Disability

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise in the House today to speak to Bill C-9, the jobs and economic growth act. As the member for Outremont, our finance critic, has indicated, the New Democrats will be voting against this particular piece of legislation. When pieces of legislation

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I was just catching up on my reading of the Speech from the Throne and the budget just to make sure that my comments will be accurate and statistically correct. The Conservatives call Bill C-9 the jobs and economic growth act. As my colleague from Scarborough

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, it is a privilege always to rise in the House of Commons, but sadly Bill C-9 is coming to a conclusion with most likely its passage and I would like to speak against the bill for a number of different reasons. It is an omnibus bill, so it is a bill that has several

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to ask the member a follow-up question. The member raised the issue of Canada Post and the remailers, and I really think that this is the smoking gun in this 880-page omnibus bill. The Conservative government has tried to throw in a lot of things that do