Business of Supply   bitumen and crude oil. Yesterday's Globe and Mail had some interesting statistics about how the clock has been turned back and how the economy is reverting back to a raw materials industry. In 1999, manufactured goods constituted almost 60% of all exports out of Canada. In 2011

Fairness at the Pumps Act  . There are about 125,000 gas pumps in Canada, with about 60,000 of them to be inspected every year for accuracy under this bill. Why does this come all so late? It was over two years ago that the Ottawa Citizen and our party in the House reported on investigations that showed government

Foreign Investment  Mr. Speaker, giving away control of our key strategic resources to foreign state-controlled multinationals is reckless. Oil and gas and other Canadian energy resources should be controlled by Canada and Canadian companies. Communist China must not be allowed to control Canadian

Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1   that Canada is facing a huge carbon bubble with the risk that if we continue to export huge volumes of fossil fuels and do not diversify our petro-economy, at some point the bubble is going to burst, and it will cost us thousands of jobs and huge amounts of economic benefit to Canada

The Economy  %, with youth unemployment double that, and now the Communist Chinese are allowed to control our key resources. The government is heading Canada back down the road to economic colonialism where we are the colony and the empire builders are speculation investors in multinational

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, the second petition is from many residents from across Canada, including Ontario, Quebec, and Ymir, B.C. They draw the attention of the House to the current moratorium on the oil tanker traffic along the rugged coast of British Columbia, which has so far kept

Business of Supply   going to the oil and gas sector every year, when it obviously does not need it. Further, blanket tax handouts without conditions for investment do not help create jobs here in Canada. They might generate fat CEO bonuses or investment outside of Canada, but there is simply

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, when in university 43 years ago, I helped organize the very first Earth Day, but we will have little to celebrate today in Canada. The government has dismantled our environmental laws, muzzled our scientists, ripped up Kyoto and refused to take action on dangerous

Climate Change Accountability Act  moved that Bill C-311, An Act to ensure Canada assumes its responsibilities in preventing dangerous climate change, be read the third time and passed. Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to speak to Bill C-311, the climate change accountability act, before its final vote here

The Economy  Mr. Speaker, the benefits the member is talking about must be going to some of his large multinational oil companies. His economic plan is cutting the front-line services that my constituents need in order to pay for billions in wasteful corporate tax cuts, which do not create

Natural Resources   that it is instead time to build an oil pipeline to the east, to bring employment and energy security to all of Canada?

Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act   rock-steady throughout turbulent times is the Canada pension plan, to which 93% of Canadians subscribe. Companies come and go and iInvestment vehicles like income trusts may arise and then be snatched back the next year by fickle governments, but people can count on the CPP

Business of Supply   region. It is on the tip of Gaspésie in eastern Quebec. Unfortunately, as we have heard today in this House, the way the park was formed was not beautiful. It was rather ugly. In 1969, over 1,000 people were forced to leave their land to make way for the park. There were 225 families

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary talked about the need to balance fiscal responsibility versus public safety. That is valid. However, this is from the party that has the largest deficit in the history of Canada, owing to huge tax reductions to big banks and big oil

Business of Supply   that while the Conservatives inherited balanced budgets and significant surpluses, we now have the largest deficits in the history of Canada through mismanagement and tax rates for big banks and big oil that are less than one-half those of the United States. Does the hon. member agree