Privilege  Understood, Mr. Speaker, and I will certainly make every effort to do so. As I mentioned earlier, these issues are being dealt with in PROC. If you bear with me, Mr. Speaker, I will not take long to get to it, but it does come to a point, and it is this. The Liberals have this i

Privilege  Mr. Speaker, I understand your desire to move forward as expeditiously as possible, but I have some points that are important to this that I need to make, and I would ask that you give me that opportunity.

Privilege  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate that. Obviously, I have some points to make, but I will attempt to be as brief as is feasible. I want to speak in support of the member's question of privilege. It is centred around this idea, which seems to be a recurring theme that we are seeing from

Privilege  On the same point of order, Mr. Chair. First, it is quite rich, hearing that member talk about somebody who wants to talk on and on in the House of Commons. On the substance of the member's point, he is trying to claim that somehow it is not a question of privilege that the memb

Privilege  Mr. Speaker, I am rising on the point of order before you. I find it unprecedented that somehow on a matter of privilege, which is probably the most serious thing to come before the House, a matter of dealing with a member's privileges, that there would be a limit put on the am

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, when she says the rules have not changed, she might want to try telling that to the campgrounds who are currently taking this government to court to fight this. If nothing has changed, the minister should explain why they are all of a sudden faced with huge new tax

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are waging war on small businesses. Family-run operations like campgrounds and self-storage facilities are being targeted for being too small to be a small business and are receiving huge new tax bills. The Minister of National Revenue keeps claiming th

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to the rules used to define active versus passive income for purposes of the small business deduction: (a) when was the review of the rules, which was originally started in Budget 2015, completed and if the review was not completed (i) when did the government decide t

Standing Orders of the House of Commons  Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are trying to ram through substantive changes to see them held less accountable to the people they serve: changes that will see Liberal MPs take Fridays off; changes that will see the Prime Minister show up to work here in question period just once a wee

Petitions  Madam Speaker, I rise today with a petition signed by residents of my constituency, mainly from Airdrie and Crossfield. The petitioners call upon Parliament to support my colleague's bill, Bill C-316, by the member for Calgary Confederation, so Canadians are able to indicate th

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I think the problem the Liberals are trying to solve is that they have a Prime Minister who does not want to be held accountable. He probably cannot really answer the questions. If I read through these emails, it is very clear, in the theme of these things, that ever

Committees of the House  I apologize, Mr. Speaker. I did not realize I had done what you referred to. In all the other cases, I was trying to insert titles, but my apologies. I listened to the so-called question from the government House leader, and I was saddened to listen to the deflection tactic bein

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I would like to say it is a pleasure to rise to be part of this debate today, but obviously, given the heavy-handed attempts of the government to try to ram through changes that would make it less accountable, I cannot say it is a pleasure. It is something I have to

Privilege  Mr. Speaker, I have a point of privilege as well. It is similar but different from the ones that have been raised previously. In addition to what we have seen today and the last couple of days in terms of the display of this attack on democracy from the government, we now have

Democratic Reform  Mr. Speaker, as we speak, opposition MPs continue to stand up to defend Canadians from the Liberals' attack on democracy. Not only does the Prime Minister only want to show up and be accountable to Canadians one day a week, but I have never seen a more pathetic display of arrogan