Customs Act  This past weekend, Mr. Speaker, an Amber Alert was issued in the Laurentian region when Louka Fredette and his father went missing. If they had crossed the American border, we would never have known. If the bill before us was law, however, we would have that information. Does

Customs Act  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate some of what my colleague has said, but I want to confirm that the Conservative Party is indeed fully supporting this bill. If so, we are very pleased to hear that.

Customs Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to follow up on what our colleague from Beloeil—Chambly was saying about giving information to the United States. Our bill is very clear: it will make it possible to get information from the United States, but it does not allow sending information to the

Customs Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the minister for his kind words with respect to the passing of our friend and colleague Arnold Chan, who I very much miss already. However, that is not the topic of today's debate. Could the minister tell us what current systems exist today to find ou

Preclearance Act, 2016  Madam Speaker, luckily I am already wearing a tie. One of the major federal issues in my riding concerns the Mont-Tremblant international airport, in La Macaza. This airport is a port of entry with no customs service on site. In 2008, a motion to concur in a committee report

Statistics Act  Madam Speaker, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is always appropriate at this hour in this place. The member will know that I recently learned that the reason Douglas Adams picked 42 as the answer to life, the universe, and everything is that 42 is the ASCII code for an aste

Statistics Act  Madam Speaker, perhaps if the member does not want to see it as an improvement, he could just follow the trend line to see where it is going. It does help move things forward. When we make changes and put the same people back and continue with the work, progress is important.

Statistics Act  Madam Speaker, I think it defeats the purpose of Shared Services Canada if we start getting all the departments back in their own systems. We went from 460-odd data centres to seven for a reason. If we start undoing that work, we will not be making progress. It will make things

Statistics Act  Madam Speaker, I do not see a problem. When a system is modernized or upgraded and there is continuity of people, it seems perfectly reasonable to continue using them. If the processes need to be modernized, which was a good part of the speeches, how do we make sure the whole sys

Statistics Act  Madam Speaker, Shared Services Canada, as the member knows, is of particular interest to me, as I served briefly with him on the government operations and estimates committee. The idea of consolidating our databases and systems and so forth was, in principle, a good one. I do not

Statistics Act  Madam Speaker, I am not entirely sure how to respond. I do not know the details of how the networks are set up, but a properly run IT system will provide the appropriate firewalls within their systems to prevent data from going where it is not supposed to go. That is the whole pu

Statistics Act  Madam Speaker, it would be good to have a bit more French in the House. Therefore I will be giving my speech on Bill C-36, an act to amend the Statistics Act, in French. The main purpose of this bill is to strengthen the independence of Statistics Canada. At the same time, it p

Canada Business Corporations Act  Resuming debate. Is the House ready for the question?

Canada Business Corporations Act  The question is on Motion No. 1. Is it the pleasure of the House to adopt the motion?

Canada Business Corporations Act  All those in favour of the motion will please say yea.