Food and Drugs Act  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise in support of sending this bill to committee at this time. One of the things I find really refreshing about this debate is that there is a certain amount of simplicity to this bill as compared to other types of trade measures that often come bef

Food and Drugs Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the hon. member for the question and for his knowledge of Elmwood—Transcona. Certainly, as a member of Parliament representing a rail community, I see two sides to the element in the bill that is about transporting dangerous goods from one corner of t

Food and Drugs Act  Mr. Speaker, my colleague is absolutely right that we need a trade framework that enables a Canadian government to have a plan and take action on such a plan. With the Unifor negotiations with GM going on, a lot of experts on television recently have been talking about the auto

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I listened with attention to the speech of the member for Calgary Shepard. I appreciate the contradiction that he has identified between the government members saying on the one hand that they respect the custom, but when pressed, not being willing to guarantee that

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, earlier, I mentioned that all of the Atlantic MPs were Liberals and that none of them were prepared to say that we should guarantee that region a seat in the Supreme Court. Perhaps that is because 100% of the members for that region are Liberal, even though they did

CANADA LABOUR CODE  Mr. Speaker, I know that the member for Saint John—Rothesay, in response to the question asked twice by my colleague, the member for Hochelaga, is keen to stay on the topic of Bill C-4. However, I could not help but notice that when the member for Winnipeg North asked him a quest

CANADA LABOUR CODE  Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for Hamilton Mountain. I am very pleased to be speaking at third reading of Bill C-4. I wish I had had the opportunity to do it sooner, because this is a good example of legislation that ought to have passed through the H

CANADA LABOUR CODE  Mr. Speaker, there are two things I would like to say in response to that. The first is that I hear the member's criticism and the echoes of it from the last Parliament about private members' business and changing labour law through private members' bills. That was an apt critic

CANADA LABOUR CODE  Mr. Speaker, I know, as a proud member of a union, that I had access to that information long before the Conservatives cooked up Bills C-377 and C-525. It was a made-up problem. The answer to the member's question is, yes, they should have access to that information. That is so

CANADA LABOUR CODE  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her question. As she said, any union member who wants that information can simply go to the union office and ask for it. That information is shared at union meetings. In my case, the union leaders' expenditures had to be voted on at every m

Transcona Legion  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #7 or, as it is most commonly known, the Transcona Legion. The Transcona Legion was officially formed on December 6, 1926. Since its founding, it has become an integral part of the

Access to Information  Madam Speaker, this week is Right to Know Week, but every day that goes by without a duty to document the discussions and decisions in ministers' offices is an affront to Canadians' right to know. The Liberal government has so far not dealt with the issue of ministerial emails b

Salaries Act  Mr. Speaker, I have a basic math question for my esteemed colleague. Is it not true that, regardless of how many responsibilities ministers have, they only have a certain number of hours in a day? If they are given more responsibilities, they have to divide their time by the num

Salaries Act  Mr. Speaker, I have a simple question that actually has to do with the legislation. Could the member elucidate for the House, in practical terms, what exactly is the difference between a minister of state to assist and a minister for whom a department is designated?

Salaries Act  Mr. Speaker, I think there might have been a slip of the tongue in the answer to my previous question, so I want to give the member the opportunity to correct himself. I think he meant to be talking about ministers for whom a department is designated. He said that they will be w