Citizenship Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my hon. friend for his very interesting speech. It is always good to have Bill 101 kids who speak both languages and live in western Canada. I appreciate his family's story. I also want to introduce a Yiddish proverb, which is, “Does it make a diffe

The Holocaust  Mr. Speaker, it is rare for everyone in the House to agree on a topic. However, there is no doubt that we all agree that the Holocaust is an historic fact. Nobody can imagine that the leader of a country would deny the Holocaust, but there is indeed one such leader, the supreme

Income Tax Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate the hon. member for Regina—Lewvan on a very entertaining speech. It is rare that we hear Clint Eastwood quoted in this chamber. I do not think he is quoted enough, so let me quote him from Heartbreak Ridge. Clint Eastwood said to improvise, ada

Income Tax Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for his speech. I heard his response to the question from the hon. member for Regina—Lewvan. I would like to know whether the Bloc Québécois campaigned on lowering taxes for those who earn less than $45,000 because, as a candidate in Quebec

Income Tax Act  Mr. Speaker, I agree with the conclusion the member reached related to the child tax benefit, and I totally agree that we need to put money back in the pockets of working-class Canadians. I believe in the TFSA. It is a good vehicle. We should allow Canadians who are in the middl

Income Tax Act  Mr. Speaker, I would note that this government is retaining income-splitting for seniors, and while the TFSA is an excellent vehicle for everyone, including seniors, only 6.3% used it up to the cap, and that was the lower cap in 2013. My issue is not with the concept of the TFSA

Income Tax Act  Mr. Speaker, let me note that during the election campaign, the NDP did not propose any tax cuts, either for those earning over $45,000 or for those earning under $45,000. It is mysterious to me why the NDP is now determined to add to the tax cut and say we should be offering it

Income Tax Act  Mr. Speaker, let me draw a picture. A single mother is earning $80,000 and has two kids; one of the kids is in day care, and one of the kids is starting grade 2. She has to afford her mortgage, her grocery bill, her day care bill, and all of these different things in her daily li

Canada's Contribution to the Effort to Combat ISIL  Madam Speaker, as I did not get a chance to say this before, I would like to congratulate the hon. member for Langley—Aldergrove on his service to Canada. I also want to congratulate everyone in the Canadian Armed Forces for their excellent and important fight against ISIS, ISIL

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I agree completely with what my friend from Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock has said. A lot of us are looking at this now in the lens of anti-Semitism and how this singles out Israel. However, I liked what the member has said about the fact that this also harms Cana

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Victoria for his statements. In many respects we agree on a lot of issues. We obviously do not agree on this one. He talked about Brandenburg, but Brandenburg was trying to put a guy who was at a Nazi rally in prison for one to 10 years. Ke

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I would note that one of the things that is very interesting is that Arab women in Israel got the right to vote when Israel became independent in 1948 before Arab women were allowed to vote in any Arab state. I know my hon. colleague did not get the chance to quite

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, certainly I agree that there should be freedom of expression. Condemning someone's speech does not mean that I am stating that their speech should be taken away. I want to clarify that, and I believe that is the intention of all the members who would be supporting th

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, again I am going to give the same response for my own colleague as I did for the member from across. To me, this is a motion that should unite, not divide. I am not going to seek to reflect different wording for a motion that was provided. Maybe I would have person

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I am going to say the same thing back to the hon. member. That was clearly a question meant to try to divide me from my party, to divide all of us. This is a motion that should be uniting us against something that is not good, which is BDS. I am fully confident tha