Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, today we have continually heard the same points from the Liberals in almost every speech. They are not recognizing that they are in government. They are the executive branch. Sometimes we get it wrong. Sometimes our system gets it wrong. However, when they are in gov

Multilateral Instrument in Respect of Tax Conventions Act  Mr. Speaker, the Liberals consistently talk about how they are going to work hard for the middle class and those trying to join it. I had a case in my office just last week involving a young mother with four children. She home schools the children and they have lived pretty hea

Canada Labour Code  Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the member for Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan. I would not say that I am pleased to rise to speak in the debate today, but I think it is an important debate we are having on a very important issue that impacts women and men throughou

Canada Labour Code  Mr. Speaker, I agree that we have made tremendous progress and are actually talking about this issue, but there is a lot more we need to do. I have to go back to the comment of the Prime Minister that he was a feminist prime minister, and then he said, “often a man experiences a

Canada Labour Code  Mr. Speaker, this is one of those bills on which there was substantial work done at committee. I was not on the committee, but I understand that amendments were accepted by parties on all sides of the House, and a number of Senate amendments were also accepted. Where amendments w

Canada Labour Code  Mr. Speaker, when that story first came out, I asked myself who has not done something in the past that was perhaps wrong and that the person feels uncomfortable about. What does one do when one recognizes something? Yes, it was 18 years ago, but the Prime Minister himself has sa

Indigenous Affairs  Mr. Speaker, this morning we learned that the five major Inuit organizations pulled out of the government's working group on food security. It was clear from the start that the Liberals had no intention of listening. The consultations were “just tokenism and optics...so they ca

Indigenous Affairs  Mr. Speaker, three years ago, this was a key election promise by the government. We know that food costs in the north are absolutely staggering. After going through the process and withdrawing from the consultations, an Inuit leader told CBC that she had lost all hope. Listen to

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Mr. Speaker, it is important to remember that what we are debating today is time allocation. I want to go back to 2015 when the Liberals made a number of commitments. They promised electoral reform, and what happened? They ditched it. They promised to get back to a balanced bud

Corrections and Conditional Release Act  Mr. Speaker, the government has insisted that it has to rush this bill because of court imperatives and in response to a court decision. My colleague has clearly articulated how that is not accurate. Could he share with us what the courts actually said Liberals had to do and how

Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, life is very expensive in northern Canada, and residents simply do not have an option to hop on the O-Train or the Canada Line. The cost of housing, the cost of infrastructure, the cost of food and heating their homes in the winter is extraordinarily expensive. Two h

Canada Revenue Agency Act  Mr. Speaker, I was honoured to have a few minutes in the first hour of debate and I am now honoured to have the opportunity to continue my thoughts in this second hour of debate. In the first hour, I talked about what an elegant solution my colleague put forward in terms of organ

Points of Order  Mr. Speaker, I too will try to keep my comments to just a couple of minutes, but it is important to intervene. We are talking about the NATO Parliamentary Association. If we look at what the purpose of NATO is, it is to safeguard freedom and security of all its members, collectiv

Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, in this budget implementation act there are three bills concerning important indigenous issues that should be separate and standalone bills. First of all, when trying to go to the relevant areas of the document, there are no links. The document is so massive it take

Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, during the time allocation debate, I expressed concerns about the fact that I would not be able to have a chance to speak to this budget implementation act. What I would like to ask my colleague is this. This is a big bill. It is a complex bill and in division 4, s