Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act  Madam Speaker, I would like to congratulate my colleague on his speech. I would also like to take this opportunity to say that the Minister of Immigration has some pretty strange ideas about asylum seekers and refugees, people who are persecuted and hunted, whose rights are tramp

Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise in the House once again to debate Bill C-31. I would like to ask the minister a question. We now know that refugee families who unfortunately are smuggled into Canada will be targeted and punished by this new Conservative bill. The NDP has a num

41st General Election  Mr. Speaker, shifting the blame to others is the most pathetic attempt to evade the issue I have ever seen. The members opposite keep burying their heads in the sand and pretending that everything is just fine. The truth is that Nipissing—Timiskaming is now under investigation b

41st General Election  Mr. Speaker, trying to prevent people from voting undermines the democratic process. Why did RackNine receive a cheque from the government? Silence. What did RMG do to get tens of thousands of dollars from the campaigns in Quebec? We do not know. Silence. Why were payments to

41st General Election  Mr. Speaker, I do not remember asking a question about the Liberal Party. This reminds me of the in and out scandal. They denied their involvement until they had no choice but to admit their guilt and pay the maximum fine, so they should be careful with their answers. It did no

41st General Election  Mr. Speaker, last week, I asked the Conservatives to explain the new in and out scheme carried out by RMG to fund calls of an indeterminate nature. The answer I got was a bizarre rambling commentary about the Liberals and North Dakota that had nothing to do with anything. What we

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the costs incurred by the government in settling lawsuits or claims, as identified in the 2011 Public Accounts totaling $654 million, divided by department, what are the: (a) identities of the claimants or organizations; (b) details of the grievance including the (

Democratic Representation Act  Mr. Speaker, I am particularly pleased and proud to be able to rise in the House to support the bill introduced by the hon. member for Compton—Stanstead. I feel that this bill addresses some major concerns of Quebeckers and that it is a step forward. As the hon. member for Notre

41st General Election  Mr. Speaker, I get the impression that the Conservatives have been doing damage control for the past few days. The first version from the Conservative candidate in Rimouski was that the campaign paid $15,000.01 for services he was unaware of and about which he was never consulted

41st General Election  Mr. Speaker, the Conservative Party is a bit like a Russian nesting doll: sometimes one scandal might be hiding another. Just a few months after Conservatives pleaded guilty to election fraud, here we go again: another in and out scheme. Last May, it seems that Conservative campa

Rights of the Child  Mr. Speaker, at least 430 children are detained in Canadian prisons every year. These are children of refugees, children of war, children of famine and violence. Yet what are we offering them? A stay in prison with no education and no psychological support. Why? Because an office

41st General Election  Mr. Speaker, the fabulous story concocted by the Conservatives is beginning to fall apart. Now a Conservative has come forward and is asking that the true identity of the guilty party who orchestrated all these fraudulent phone calls be revealed. On one television station, the p

41st General Election  Mr. Speaker, that is a bold statement from a party that did not receive 40% of the popular vote. If I wanted to solve the mystery, I would say that I suspect it was Pierre Poutine of Separatist Street in Joliette with a RackNine cellphone. Unfortunately, we are not playing Clue

41st General Election  Mr. Speaker, speaking of misleading calls, yesterday, the parliamentary secretary tried to deflect the debate by saying that there was a higher voter turnout. That is an intellectually dishonest answer that borders on the hypocritical and vacuous responses that the Prime Ministe

41st General Election  Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the hon. member for that repeated answer. The NDP has provided everything it knows about this electoral fraud. It is the Conservatives who have the missing pieces of the puzzle. The Conservatives should hand over all their documents and all their con