Budget Implementation Act, 2009  Mr. Speaker, I noticed that the member has difficulty speaking in the House to any issue without engaging in gratuitous insults and slurs. I would like to remind him that invective is the lowest form of argument. He raises the question of facts in his speech. I will talk about

Budget Implementation Act, 2009  Madam Speaker, New Democrats believe passionately in pay equity. This budget trashes pay equity. New Democrats believe in respecting our public civil servants and the sanctity of negotiated contracts. This budget rolls back negotiated collective agreements, including rolling back

Benjamin Miguel  Mr. Speaker, I rise to honour and pay homage to a special person who recently passed away in my riding. Mr. Benjamin Miguel was a respected and much loved leader in the Filipino community. He met his end as he lived his life: with strength, courage and dignity. As the New Democr

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, it is with some pleasure and some sadness that I rise to speak to this motion today. The pleasure is because of the pride I feel in my party for putting forward what I think is a measure that will be of immense assistance to hundreds of thousands of Canadians and

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his astute and sensitive observations on behalf of working Canadians. He is absolutely right about the amount of time. However, I would respectfully suggest that it is even longer than four weeks. The employment insurance administrators

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, Canada lost 129,000 jobs in January alone. British Columbia lost 18,000 manufacturing jobs alone. B.C. has lost 35,000 jobs in January in total. I want to mention that many of those workers are from the immigrant communities, where recessions tend to hit those comm

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, over the past several weeks I have been reviewing the budget, and I do want to commend the government for allocating infrastructure money to many of the buildings on campuses across the country. That is a positive step. I am also a strong proponent of all post-secon

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, with the greatest of respect to the previous questioner, I am looking at statistics that show that the Liberals cut funding for NSERC and SSHRC by $179 million over three years in the mid-1990s and cut $25 billion in funding to the provinces. So I just do not see it

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I was reading an email earlier from Rosemary Cornell, a professor at the department of molecular biology and biochemistry at SFU. She stated: The new budget is continuing to decimate science research. The $175,000 committed to the Canadian Foundation for Innovation

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, beginning in 1995, the Chrétien Liberals unilaterally cut $25 billion from transfers to the provinces for post-secondary education and other programs. The Liberals will say this is ancient history but they would be wrong, because the effects of these responses to sho

Italian-Canadian Recognition and Restitution Act  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to speak tonight to Bill C-302, An Act to recognize the injustice that was done to persons of Italian origin through their “enemy alien” designation and internment during the Second World War, and to provide for restitution and promote education on Itali

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order to seek the unanimous consent of the House to revert back to the introduction of private members' bills.

Country of Origin Labelling Act  moved for leave to introduce Bill C-346, An Act respecting Country of Origin Labelling. Mr. Speaker, I want to deeply thank my hon. colleague from across the floor for his demonstration of grace and collegiality. I appreciate that. I am honoured to rise today to introduce a bil

Fish Labelling Act  moved for leave to introduce Bill C-347, An Act respecting the Labelling of Fish. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to introduce a bill concerning the labelling of seafood products. My bill would mandate producers and importers to place a label on all seafood products identifying them

Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, 1992  Mr. Speaker, it gives me pleasure to rise today to speak to this bill. I want to mention the fine work that has been done by all members of the House but in particular by the hon. member for Western Arctic. The NDP supports the general aim of this bill, which in short, aims to p