Foreign Publishers Advertising Services Act  Madam Speaker, I would hope that the government of my country would use the tools entrenched in the agreement to seek the best possible terms under any agreement we signed. I take exception to the word bullying, or the attitude of bullying. I do not agree that the Americans are b

Foreign Publishers Advertising Services Act  Madam Speaker, the Americans are using the tools entrenched in the agreements that we all agreed to. If we are wrong, we are wrong and we have been proven wrong before. I am not saying we are wrong, but I question that we are right. I was encouraged this morning by the Minister

Foreign Publishers Advertising Services Act  Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his question. I would say that if we go into agreements which give us benefits, and certainly these agreements have given us great benefits, we sign the agreements. We agree to adhere to the terms and conditions of the agreements. We ca

Foreign Publishers Advertising Services Act  Madam Speaker, that is a reason. The things that make me nervous on the other hand are that the Prime Minister did not come out and say, “We can defend this in front of the World Trade Organization. We are right on this. We can stand firm”. He said, “We think we can justify it i

Foreign Publishers Advertising Services Act  Madam Speaker, it is a pleasure for me to speak to Bill C-55, the foreign publishers advertising services act. It is important for Canada that we protect our publishing industry especially in light of the things that are happening in the industry now with global communications an

Swissair Flight 111  Mr. Speaker, that brings up a couple of other questions we should think about. If there are a series of crashes, what happens to the budgets of the RCMP, the military and the coast guard? If we are not asking the other parties to pay, will the government assure the coast guard,

Swissair Flight 111  Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Transport. The cost of the Swissair 111 investigation has now reached $62 million and is rising. The costs are totally absorbed by the coast guard, the RCMP and the military. As a result, the operations for the RCMP, the military a

Holidays Act  Mr. Speaker, I rise to ask a question of the parliamentary secretary following a question I posed back in November with respect to a shortage of aviation inspectors. My question was generated by a report put out by Price Waterhouse, a very well respected consultant in Canada. In

Canadian Human Rights Act  Madam Speaker, my question is for the Parliament Secretary to the Minister of Transport. It is further to a question that I asked in the House to which the minister responded that the province of Nova of Scotia and the province of New Brunswick, in particular, did not violate an

Privilege  Mr. Speaker, I rise on a question of privilege today with regard to a completely different event than my previous question of privilege the other day. As hon. members will know, a breach of privilege occurs if someone interferes or tries to influence a member of parliament durin

Highways  Mr. Speaker, as we prepare to leave for the Christmas period, I would like the Prime Minister and his cabinet to think about the voters in Atlantic Canada. Staring on January 4 thousands of people every day for 30 years will start paying tolls on a highway they know is already p

Highways  Mr. Speaker, after 18 months of constant questioning, it appears we have struck a nerve with the New Brunswick highway toll deal. Immediately after producing a letter last week confirming that Doug Young has contravened his own ministerial directives in order to take advantage o

Points Of Order  Madam Speaker, there was no misunderstanding of the comments made by the member to me in that confrontation. There was no way to interpret them other than as a threat. He tried to intimidate me. He said that I had better remember that Doug Young has lots of friends and they all h

Privilege  Mr. Speaker, I rise today on a point of privilege arising from an incident that occurred here in this chamber on December 3, just last Thursday. I rise based on citations 93 and 92 of Beauchesne's Parliamentary Rules and Forms which say that any threat or attempt to influence th

Transport  Mr. Speaker, I am just quoting what the former federal minister said. It is his condition. It is his policy. He said that the federal contribution must stay in that cost sharing agreement and then he led the consortium that took that share out. There is not one cent of provincia