Jobs and Economic Growth Act  , too, the government is using omnibus budget legislation to weaken Canada's environmental protection laws. These are non-financial matters and they do not belong in the budget. The government's approach is becoming a bit of a pattern. In last year's budget bill, the Conservative

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  . colleague talked about how Bill C-9 contains 900 pages of everything, including the kitchen sink. Anything the government could not pass independently, it rammed into this bill, which is an omnibus bill, a Trojan horse, or we can call it what we want, but most people would call

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  . These are elements that should not be in a budget, which has become an omnibus budget bill, as previously stated by my colleague from Hochelaga, our finance critic. As my colleague asked, why do the Liberals not realize this? Yesterday, they could have voted for the amendments to withdraw

Jobs and Economic Growth Act   if the member could comment on what he sees the impact could be on our environment with this omnibus bill that buries these environmental regulations and takes apart these environmental regulations.

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Madam Speaker, I would like to ask the hon. leader of the NDP, building on his comments about big oil, why in this 880-plus page omnibus bill are there no investments in Canada? Why is there no income security for mothers, families and retirees? What about passenger rail, green

Jobs and Economic Growth Act   thoroughly analyzed. There are pages and pages of documents, but there is nothing for victims even though it would make perfect sense to introduce a specific bill for victims. Rather than put everything in an omnibus bill, it would have been a good idea to introduce a bill to protect

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  . It is time to renew protection for the unemployed, not take it away. What is going on here? Omnibus bills like this are the wrong way. They are the last refuge of a regime that is trying to hide from Canadians what it is doing and it is playing on the weakness or ambivalence or waffling

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Madam Speaker, yes, of course, I believe that. One of the first points in my speech was to say that we objected to putting all these things together in one omnibus bill, just as the current public security minister had objected to a similar thing when he was in opposition. So, I

Jobs and Economic Growth Act   to provide more support to those who need it most. The government is responsible for redistributing our collective wealth. It needs to provide more support to the unemployed and improve postal services instead of introducing Bill C-9, an omnibus bill that attempts to slip in reduced

Jobs and Economic Growth Act   far with Bill C-9? With this omnibus bill, they are trying to privatize Canada Post and blatantly steal money from the unemployed. The Conservatives are saying that there is a surplus and that the economy is healthy. If there is an economic surplus, the government could provide

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Madam Speaker, the government has taken a cowardly and immoral approach to enacting such profound policy shifts as deregulation of Canada Post and privatization of AECL. It is cowardly because it buried these profound policy shifts into this omnibus bill without giving

Jobs and Economic Growth Act   to account because they handled this bill as an omnibus bill rather than being accountable to Canadians.

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  , the Broadcasting Act, additional payments to the maritime provinces and Canadian environmental protection. I am sorry but there are just too many to mention them all. I have a list of budget bills that the member sat through that were far deeper and far more omnibus, if he wants to use

Jobs and Economic Growth Act   to weaken the public participation. We always talk about the importance of representing our constituents. Yet the government, through this ploy of an omnibus bill and throwing this in and not allowing the full amount of debate, has destroyed the opportunities that Canadians have to deal

Jobs and Economic Growth Act   that one is accountable when one has explained or justified one's decisions or actions in a manner that is true, full and plain. I do not believe the government has been accountable in Bill C-9. The budget implementation bill is really an omnibus bill, because it includes in it changes