Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply  Madam Speaker, during the throne speech, the government mentioned that it wants to help students pursuing a post-secondary education. Given that post-secondary education, and education in general, is a provincial jurisdiction, how does the federal government plan to do that wit

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, on February 20, the Prime Minister promised the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal that a Liberal government would immediately reinstate the tax credits for labour-sponsored funds in full. He kept saying that throughout the campaign. Quebeckers really value the

National Day for the Independence of the People of Quebec  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to announce to the House that this Sunday, December 13, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., hundreds of Quebeckers from every part of the province will come together to participate in the national day for the independence of the people of Quebec. As the Prime Minist

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply  Madam Speaker, during his speech, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, who is also the member for La Prairie, talked about how proud he is that the Canadian Railway Museum is in his riding. The Canadian Railway Museum should probably add a n

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, my question is about the government that recently instituted new transitional standards that seem pretty bogus to me. There are no meaningful measures here; this is just a smokescreen to hide the fact that the government is not really doing anything and does not re

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, earlier, a member of the Conservative caucus told the House that 2016 was the year of the monkey. Truer words have never been spoken. A little earlier, another member of the Conservative caucus was monkeying around when he claimed that the fossil fuel industry had sa

Income Tax Act  Mr. Speaker, I do not quite understand the Minister of Finance's plan or his explanation as to why this bill was introduced. When we look at the notice of ways and means motion and the measures it includes, we see that most of the measures that apply to taxpayers will not come in

Securities  Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday, Françoise Bertrand, the president and CEO of the Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec, wrote a commentary criticizing the government for wanting to create a Canadian securities commission. Ms. Bertrand called it a bad idea that was artificially

Income Tax Act  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to participate in today's debate on Bill C-2, the government's tax bill. I would like to begin by saying that we will vote for this bill. We will vote for this bill, but not because it is excellent; it is not. It is actually rather insignificant, but it

Income Tax Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague opposite for his comments and question, although the question was hard to understand. He mentioned two things in his comments that I want to address. The first is that this is the first step toward the upcoming budget. As I said in my speech ear

Income Tax Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to tell my colleague opposite that, with respect to Quebec's independence, not a single Quebec premier has signed the Constitution since it was forced on Quebeckers in 1982. No one has accepted the situation that Quebec is in. We are in a kind of no man's land

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I listened to the last response from my colleague from Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, who was saying he wanted to work with the government. I am in complete agreement on working with the government, but we must also work with the opposition. Looking at the composition

Intergovernmental Relations  Mr. Speaker, Lowe's, the giant American hardware chain, wants to purchase RONA for $3.2 billion. As we know, RONA buys from a huge number of suppliers in Quebec, including Garant shovels and many lumber manufacturers. Under the Investment Canada Act, the Minister of Innovation,

Economic Development  Mr. Speaker, the media in English Canada are getting involved in the debate on the sale of Rona and telling the government not to take action. Rona employs 23,000 people in Quebec, including 1,000 at the head office in Boucherville, in my riding. Rona makes two billion dollars'

Business of the House  Mr. Speaker, I am a little confused about why the Conservatives would want to pass self-congratulatory motions for the work they claim to have done. When we look at what Liberal and Conservative governments have done to try to balance their books, it is clear that they have alwa