Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, if the Liberals want to help the middle class, why do they not lower taxes for everyone earning less than $45,000 a year, or everyone who makes less than $23 an hour, which is the majority of Canadian workers? Why do the Liberals not include those people in the middl

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, first of all, I wish to inform you that I will be sharing my time with the incredible, fantastic member for Windsor—Tecumseh. I want to pick up on what our Liberal colleague just said. According to the Liberal government's definition, the middle class does not inclu

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I was wondering if my colleague while canvassing and speaking to people during the last election campaign talked about the fact that the Liberal government might privatize the airports. I never saw that in one debate. I never saw that in the program of the Liberal Pa

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate and thank my colleague from the Conservative Party for her speech and her motion. This is a motion we can really sink our teeth into. It covers quite a bit, but I am going to focus on one aspect on which we can all agree. Canada's airports are

Questions Passed as Orders for Return  With regard to the government’s use of Challenger jets, since October 2015, and for each aircraft: (a) what are the names and titles of the passengers listed on the flight manifest; (b) what were all the departure and arrival points; (c) who requested access to the plane; (d) who

Questions Passed as Orders for Return  With regard to departmental entities since October 2015: (a) how many individuals work for each department; (b) what cities do they live in; (c) what cities do they work in; (d) if they no longer work for the department, when they left, how much severance pay were they entitled t

Financial Institutions  Mr. Speaker, the evidence and the stories keep piling up; something is indeed rotten in the state of Canada's banks. High-pressure sales, toxic financial products, lack of consent, no disclosure, and even lies: that is how our banks are treating us, as household debt rises to a

Canada Revenue Agency  Mr. Speaker, when the Liberal government lets KPMG hide a rich client's money on the Isle of Man, does it consider the message it sends to honest taxpayers? It is precisely because of these practices in tax havens that we cannot properly care for our seniors or support our studen

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, indeed, the mess of the KPMG scheme, with some degree of complicity from the Canada Revenue Agency, is very worrying. The government is failing to take action. In the United States, when someone is found guilty of tax evasion, the fine is from 20% to 27% interest o

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government crows over its investment of $444 million in the Canada Revenue Agency. No one has been arrested and no charges have been laid, however, so they cannot be said to have a good batting average, as we say in baseball. In his mandate letter to the

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to report that Statistics Canada itself came up with the $7-billion figure when estimating lost revenue due to tax evasion and the use of tax havens. It would be no problem for me to find out the year the report was published. The problem with the figu

Business of Supply  moved: That, given the government loses tens of billions of dollars annually to tax loopholes, deductions, and exemptions that mostly benefit the wealthy and estimates suggest that tax evasion through the use of offshore tax havens costs the government more than $7 billion doll

Preclearance Act, 2016  Mr. Speaker, I have a question for my colleague because many of the things that are new in this bill really are troubling. For example, in the past, people in the pre-clearance area on Canadian soil had the right to say that they did not like the interrogation, that they were u

Canada Revenue Agency  Mr. Speaker, $444 million has been invested, yet no charges have been laid. White collar criminals must be shaking in their boots. People who go to work every day pay their taxes. They do not have a choice. However, if they are late to file their tax return, the CRA cracks down

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, while SMEs like the businesses in the Saint-Hubert Plaza are wondering what happened to the Liberals who promised them a lower tax rate, the wealthiest members of our society are still taking advantage of tax loopholes. The Liberals' flip-flop on their plan to incre