Ethics  Mr. Speaker, although there is no lack of urgent issues to deal with, our Prime Minister does not seem too concerned. However, when the time comes to raise money for the Liberal Party or the Trudeau Foundation, or to meet with Chinese billionaires who have expressed an interest

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's fundraising rules seem to be rather elastic. We know that the Prime Minister will again tell us that he is following the rules. However, when a justice minister has a meeting at a law office with lawyers who one day may apply to be judges, and I

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, we are still looking for the $40 million. Maybe we will look in other places. Yesterday, the Prime Minister talked about meetings to promote investment in Canada and economic development. By making people pay for access to him, he often spends more time involved i

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, important files are piling up on the Prime Minister's desk. That is regrettable but not surprising. Apparently the Prime Minister is in no rush to deal with the most urgent issues for the good of all Canadians. Will all Canadians have to donate $1 million to the

Softwood Lumber  Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Justice in Toronto, the Minister of Finance in the Maritimes, the Minister of Natural Resources, and now the Prime Minister. If the Liberals put as much effort into signing the softwood lumber deal as they do into fundraising, they would be a lot fur

National Defence  Mr. Speaker, our troops are very important to Canadians. Let us not forget that the Liberals have been known to send Canadian soldiers to a very warm part of the world wearing winter clothing. Let them not make the same mistake with the fighter jets. The Liberals are sending a

Softwood Lumber  Mr. Speaker, we all remember Mr. Barroso's visit. I will not get into that again, but I would like to come back to the softwood lumber deal. It seems we are headed for a legal dispute with our American partners, which raises many questions and concerns since 75% of Canadian prod

International Trade  Mr. Speaker, the Liberals were not even playing in the snow like the players in yesterday's football game in Ottawa, but they still managed to drop the ball on the free trade agreement with Europe, not to mention the fact that they have not signed any free trade agreements with o

International Trade  Mr. Speaker, that is a very good answer but for the wrong question. The Liberals almost dropped the ball on CETA, which was initiated under our government. Then the Liberals have lost a year without signing any important trade agreements with anyone. Since the Prime Minister r

International Trade  Mr. Speaker, not a single job has been created in the past year, the first year of the government's term, and things are liable to get worse. Unprompted, the Prime Minister decided to publicly explain his attitude toward NAFTA and his negotiating style with the Americans. Since

International Trade  Mr. Speaker, it is bad enough that the Prime Minister has failed to create a single additional full-time job in his first year. Now, without being asked, he has offered to renegotiate NAFTA with the new U.S. president-elect, putting thousands more Canadian jobs at risk. Now that

International Trade  Yes, Mr. Speaker, and the Conservative Party signed this agreement because we knew it would be good for the country. That is what happened. The Americans' shift on NAFTA obviously has people deeply concerned about the softwood lumber agreement. A surge of American protectionism

International Trade  Mr. Speaker, negotiating global trade agreements is very sensitive. I cannot believe the Prime Minister of Canada revealed his intentions before discussions even got started. He basically showed his hand the minute he sat down at the poker table. How does he expect to come out

International Trade  Mr. Speaker, that is what we are looking for too: jobs, jobs, jobs. They have not created any full-time jobs; not one since they have been in government. This morning, we learned that the U.S. president-elect's transition team advised him to take a more protectionist approach

The Economy  Mr. Speaker, during the election campaign last year, the Prime Minister sugar-coated the pill for everyone by talking about infrastructure investments that would justify a deficit. Once again, we are going to get another list of the many things that went wrong. In October, Canad