Ministerial Expenses  Mr. Speaker, the Minister of International Trade claims that her vanity trip to California was to promote Canadian business interests. However, emails released through access to information paint a very different picture. Her staff were scrambling to put a program together and w

Ministerial Expenses  Mr. Speaker, in a one-on-one sit down interview with the LA Times, the minister's California dream trip was characterized as a “brief stopover”. LA Consul General Villeneuve noted there “seems to be a bit of confusion”. The Global Affairs director general of communications wa

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the government’s decision to resettle 25 000 Syrian refugees, what is: (a) the total dollar value being disbursed to each refugee upon arriving in Canada; (b) the total dollar value the government is providing each refugee on a monthly basis; (c) the anticipated en

Ministerial Expenses  Mr. Speaker, documents released through access to information indicate the Minister of International Trade left her officials in the dark about her vanity trip to California and there are significant factual inconsistencies with the answers the minister has provided about her Cal

Ministerial Expenses  Mr. Speaker, we know the minister rescheduled her personal vanity trip to California from October to November, after she was appointed to cabinet. Emails released through access to information indicate her staff was left in the dark until the final days of her L.A. departure. App

Ministerial Expenses  Mr. Speaker, the Minister of International Trade claims that her Hollywood adventure was a trip to promote Canada and meet with trading partners, but we know—

Ministerial Expenses  Mr. Speaker, it is funny: on that side the squeaky wheel seems to be getting the grease today. We know the minister was originally scheduled to appear on a U.S. TV program in October, but she rescheduled her appearance to November after she was sworn into cabinet. The minister

Ministerial Expenses  Mr. Speaker, several times this week, the Minister of International Trade or her parliamentary secretary have risen in this place and told us that it was her department, and her department alone, that handled all of the arrangements for her fun-in-the-sun vanity trip to Californi

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Ministerial Expenses  Mr. Speaker, the Minister of International Trade would like us to believe that she was gallivanting around sunny California promoting Canada and meeting with trade partners, but Canadians know the real reason she was there. She was there to promote herself on a popular U.S. TV sh

Ministerial Expenses  Mr. Speaker, then that member should have read them, because we know that the hotel rooms were booked for her by Time Warner, which of course owns HBO. When she said that her department handled all of the arrangements for this trip, she misled Canadians. She claimed that this wa

Ministerial Expenses  Mr. Speaker, today, in an effort to cover her tracks, the Minister of International Trade said her trade meetings in Los Angeles were booked before her HBO interview. However, originally her HBO appearance was supposed to be on October 30. That was before she was even sworn in a

Ministerial Expenses  Mr. Speaker, the Minister of International Trade's story just does not add up. She had a reserved seat on the government jet leaving Manilla, but she wanted some TV time on a popular U.S. show, so the minister instructed her staff to book some last-minute meetings and a first cla

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I am sure if he asks his former colleague or friend Joe Fontana all about this, he will have the answer he is looking for. We can cast aspersions here all day long. If legislation is going to come forward that actually meets the test that is laid out in the “Open an

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Dufferin—Caledon for his question. He is a very knowledgeable member in the House. He knows exactly what he is talking about, and I know exactly what he is getting at. The reality is that there was somebody from Torys who deregistered as a