Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. parliamentary secretary for the fine work he has been doing for the Minister of Finance, not only today but in the committee as well. He is a great leader in committee. The budget is titled, “Leading the Way on Jobs and Growth”. Would the parliament

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I know it has been a busy week, but I believe it was two nights ago when the hon. member joined us. It cannot have been last night. I know we have had such fun at those briefings. This government has cut over 100 taxes since we took office in 2006. That has been a f

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, to be very truthful, I am not sure how many credit unions will take us up on this but there is a number. This came from our consultations with Canadians. Credit unions came to us and asked to be regulated federally so they could expand their operations to encourage

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I, as well, would like to thank the hon. member for Burlington for his great work on the committee. The member travelled to more cities in our prebudget tour than I had the opportunity to. He has a great reflection of what is happening across the country. I know he

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I think even that hon. member understands, from his time sitting around the table at the Department of Finance in Canada, that these numbers do not just come out of a hat. I think all hon. members in this House realize that. We put forward a number, 220,000 jobs, th

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I welcome this opportunity to question my colleague, the hon. member for Macleod, in Alberta, who is taking our questions on the implementation of the budget. However, one aspect has been completely overlooked. He was raising some questions and comments earlier, but

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, the exact opposite is true. The money we are injecting into this entire Canadian economy has probably provided more job growth in the province of Quebec than it has in my province of Alberta. It is a little troubling. We have one of the largest job losses in western

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  The hon. member for Hochelaga.

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  moved that Bill C-9, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 4, 2010 and other measures, be read the second time and referred to a committee.

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  moved for leave to introduce Bill C-9, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 4, 2010 and other measures. (Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)

Finance committee  . The Green Budget Coalition essentially has two clear messages to convey to the committee regarding the proposed changes to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act in Bill C-9. Firstly, we feel it is not acceptable to use omnibus budget legislation to weaken Canada's environmental

Standing up for Victims of White Collar Crime Act  , and it is that the justice committee is a very busy committee. There are an awful lot of justice bills, which arguably could have been combined with other bills and put in an omnibus bill. There are going to be the same witnesses if we are dealing with the Criminal Code or sentencing provisions. Chances

Standing up for Victims of White Collar Crime Act   suggesting that all these Conservative justice initiatives, albeit that is all they have, should go into an omnibus bill, because then they could pass a number of bad initiatives all at once. As he knows, the justice agenda of the Conservatives has been basically a disaster

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, it is interesting. The member mentioned an omnibus bill. I seem to remember one that we had, protecting victims from violent crime. I remember the shrill of the NDP that we brought an omnibus bill on crime and how they opposed that. The other thing the member

Criminal Code   the Conservatives, we could have brought almost all of those into two or three omnibus bills. That would have used up a lot less time in this House and more effectively dealt with a number of issues that do exist within the Criminal Code and the criminal justice system. We could have used