Points of Order  Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. This point of order is about the conduct of the member for Winnipeg North, who, it is no mystery to people in the House, speaks a lot, both on the record and off the record. When he said “no” to that request for unanimous consent, was th

Points of Order  Madam Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to raise this point of order. What I would like to do is just give a brief summary of the issue and give a couple of examples of parliamentary precedent that I think bear on the case and then propose a remedy. This is with respect to B

Points of Order  Madam Speaker, I am getting heckled on a point of order now by the member for Winnipeg North, who is very clearly keen to remove protection for termination and severance pay from Canadian workers. However, the point I am coming to is that the remedy is to seek unanimous consent.

Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022  Madam Speaker, the way it works in the pandemic dividend in the legislation the government has crafted is that it establishes a baseline profit in advance of the pandemic. Then it looks at the pandemic window and how much more profit was made during the pandemic compared to basel

Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. Of course, the New Democratic Party believes that we need to invest in social housing. The Conservatives propose facilitating the construction of houses on the private market. However, without real investment and without the

Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022  Madam Speaker, I think it is pretty clear that if Canada wants to get serious about meeting its emission reduction targets in the timeline, even in the inadequate timeline, that has been promised by the government, we have to see more projects getting built. The proof is in the p

Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022  Mr. Speaker, I will briefly reiterate the question that was posed, which had to do with seniors between the ages of 65 and 74 getting access to the OAS increase that the government often talks about as if it is an increase for all seniors. However, I did not hear an answer about

Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022  Mr. Speaker, last week, I spoke a bit about the shortcomings of the government's economic statement. Today, I will speak about a particular measure found in Bill C-32 that I think is very important, because it is a matter of justice in the current economy. I am referring to the

Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022  Mr. Speaker, I want to continue on that theme of housing. If we listened to the Conservative leader, we would know that as long as there is this much capital in the market for bidding on new homes and new units of various kinds, we will have to build a lot of units to ever see th

Points of Order  Mr. Speaker, I am rising to follow up on the point of order that was raised earlier this week by the member for Winnipeg North in respect to Bill C-228. The bill, presented by the member for Sarnia—Lambton, has to do with protection of pensions. The member forWinnipeg North hig

Points of Order  Mr. Speaker, going back to what I was saying earlier, the committee did consider that question. I want to call to your attention that, after some deliberation, the committee decided to overturn the ruling of the chair. That was not done spontaneously or without planning and con

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, the fact remains that when we are seeing Canadians struggling to buy groceries and we see the very same companies from which they are buying their groceries making profits that are growing at three times the rate of inflation, there is something seriously wrong with

Health  Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, the government is making the littlest effort. This was a good question about establishing a public drug manufacturer in Canada. We just came through a pandemic where we saw the government scramble to secure a vaccine supply and only succeed at the expe

Arrival of Ugandan Asians to Canada  Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order related to a couple of the points of order that have been raised. The first case is with respect to when the member for North Island—Powell River was presenting a unanimous consent motion. I know that sometimes members present things here

Arrival of Ugandan Asians to Canada  Mr. Speaker, people are free to disagree, but they do not need to shout me down. Mr. Speaker, it is important to protect the right of members to put things to the House. If we establish a culture of cutting off members before they have a chance to put a question to the House, we