Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I want to address both of those separately. In terms of the $7-billion slush fund, there cannot be measurables in place for something that has not been allocated to where it is going to be spent. That is a major issue in and of itself. I hope that over the coming yea

Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 1  Yes, I apologize, Mr. Speaker. The Minister of Innovation joined us. One of the programs the government had funded was the car of tomorrow program. Interestingly, the previous government had put in a few bucks as well, but there was now a $20-million investment taking place into

Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I would like to start my speech by recognizing that tomorrow is the 74th anniversary of the storming of Juno on D-Day. On behalf of the Conservative caucus and the people of Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte, to those who sacrificed their lives, who fought for freedom,

Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I would at least hope that the Canadian government would be our government. However, the fact is, that is not the case anymore.

Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, the member brought up a few things about omnibus bills, and so forth, and the promise made by the Liberals not to bring forth such bills to the House. I know it will leave everybody exasperated to hear that the Liberals made a promise and then abandoned it. I cannot

Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I think the point of the 400 amendments is that the budget should be deleted. When we look at it, we have had nothing but issue after issue with it. We want the government to go back to the drawing board, not to go back to the taxpayer and take from those who have th

Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to stand to speak about the budget implementation act. I would like to start with some facts, which may appear at first glance, to be astounding. The Department of Finance and the Parliamentary Budget Officer have predicted that the budg

Net Neutrality  Madam Speaker, it is an honour to rise this evening to talk to Motion No. 168. I would like to thank the member for Oakville for bringing the motion forward. I would also like to thank the member for Beauce, who is our critic for innovation, science, and economic development, for

Visitability  Madam Speaker, I am thankful for the opportunity to stand and speak to this motion today. Too often, when we search for a definition of “visitability”, it comes up as “no results found”. I think this is one of the major reasons why we are discussing this matter today. Therefore,

Visitability  Madam Speaker, I would like to thank the member for his commitment to visitability, accessibility, and persons with disabilities. We have been waiting in the House for a very long time for an accessibility act, for more legislation to come forward, and we are now two and a half

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to loans and repayable contributions issued by the government during the 2016 calendar year: (a) what are the details, including (i) amount, (ii) date, (iii) recipient, (iv) purpose; and (b) for each loan and repayable contribution in (a), how much has been repaid to

Canada Summer Jobs Program  Mr. Speaker, for months now my colleagues and I have been speaking against the Liberal's values test on jobs for youth. I am happy to see that the minister intends on scrapping it. By getting rid of the attestation, the government has admitted it was wrong about this in the first

Interim Estimates  Mr. Speaker, I want to confirm that the vote for the member for Saint Boniface—Saint Vital will not be counted based on the fact that he was not sitting in his seat at the end of the vote count.

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the Prime Minister’s trips to the riding of Scarborough—Agincourt in November and December of 2017: (a) what are the amounts and details of all expenses related to the trips; (b) what are the details of all official government business conducted on the trip; (c) wh

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, certainly all of the issues we have been talking about surrounding this attestation are important. In my own riding, the government recommended that the Gilbert Centre, which works with individuals in the LGBTQ2 community, receive only half of the funding it had appl