Air Canada  Mr. Speaker, after years of pretending to be champions for Air Canada workers, the Liberals tabled legislation that gives Air Canada free rein to ship the good-paying jobs of 2,600 workers and their families right out of Canada. The Prime Minister once stood alongside protesting

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, today the government brought forward legislation that has to do with medically assisted dying. One of the things I noticed when it presented the budget was that even though we knew this type of legislation was going to be coming to the House, because there is a court

Air Canada Public Participation Act  Madam Speaker, I think it is worth noting, in fairness to the hon. member who just asked a very good question, that there was not an answer to that. It is odd to have the Liberals on the one hand wanting to invoke what is going on with Bombardier and the C Series order in their

Air Canada Public Participation Act  Madam Speaker, I detect a contradiction between the Liberal members' two arguments. On the one hand, they say these changes will create more jobs for Canadians because we will have centres of excellence in Winnipeg and Montreal, but they are forgetting that there are no guarante

Air Canada Public Participation Act  Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member for joining me in noticing the way the western Canadian aerospace industry has been left out of the discussion. We should be taking a more comprehensive approach and trying to develop an aerospace strategy for the country that involves all o

Air Canada Public Participation Act  Madam Speaker, part of the issue around Bill C-10 is really about the nature of a deal and the worth of a deal. In 1989, when Air Canada was privatized, there was a deal made with Canadians that we would continue to enjoy the benefits of having a major aerospace company that was

Instruction to Committee on Bill C-2  Mr. Speaker, tomorrow it will be six months since the new government was elected. The most recent bill introduced was Bill C-14. A handful of the bills that are before Parliament are quite routine. They have to do with the estimates. There are around three of those 14 bills tha

Air Canada Public Participation Act  Mr. Speaker, I will start by saying how disappointed I am at having to rise to speak to this bill. This is not the kind of bill that I expected to have to deal with. If I had been told a year ago that the Liberals would be in government and then base a projection about this kind

Air Canada Public Participation Act  Mr. Speaker, that is the question that the government has yet to answer. What is here, really? As he says, we have some nods and we have some winks. This may help out Bombardier, and that would be nice because that seems like a big issue; and it is. It is important to continue to

Air Canada Public Participation Act  Mr. Speaker, I am really heartened to hear a concern from a Conservative member about the carbon footprint of Air Canada's operations. I would agree that when it comes to this, given where the jobs are most likely to go, as with a number of issues when it comes to global trade, a

Air Canada Public Participation Act  Mr. Speaker, I am thankful for the opportunity to note that the reversal of the position by the member for Winnipeg North on this is totally appalling. Many times in the last Parliament, 15 or 20 times, he presented petitions, saying that this was terrible, that we needed to get

Air Canada Public Participation Act  Mr. Speaker, we have heard a few tautologies from the government. We have heard that a deal is a deal. The government has invoked that in order to refuse to stand up to Saudi Arabia with respect to its record on human rights and proceed with a contract that would deliver arms to

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, just to set the context, and I doubt I am the first to read them into the record today, but I think it is worth quoting the ethics principles that the ministers were given: There should be no preferential access to government, or appearance of preferential access,

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for the question and the well-made point within the question. I would agree with him on the summoning of the kind of indignation we have seen from the government benches on this issue when the facts are quite clear. We are not here to say that what

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for his question. I agree with the principle that we should support political parties with public funds up to a certain point. However, we should not use that argument to excuse actions that are inexcusable. Accordingly, we should indeed reope