Small Business Entrepreneur  Mr. Speaker, as today marks the first day of Small Business Week in Canada, I wish to recognize an outstanding Canadian from Abbotsford. Barb Mowat is president and owner of Impact Communications and the founder of other successful enterprises. She is an international leader in

Justice  Mr. Speaker, today, the Minister of Justice introduced a bill to end volume discounts for multiple murderers. Under the current system, criminals convicted of multiple murders serve their sentences concurrently, meaning that they are eligible to apply for parole in some cases aft

Protecting Children from Online Sexual Exploitation Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to welcome the member back to the justice committee. She does good work there. I think we have a collaborative committee that looks forward to dealing with the bill. I want to refer to a comment made earlier today by the member for Elmwood—Transcona. He sugge

Protecting Children from Online Sexual Exploitation Act  Mr. Speaker, referring back to a question from the member for Elmwood—Transcona, he may not have been listening carefully to the speech of my colleague from Langley. He actually said that over 3,000 websites dealing in child pornography had been shut down in Canada. Therefore, we

Protecting Children from Online Sexual Exploitation Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to commend my friend from Langley. We used to serve on city council together in Abbotsford. I want to commend him for supporting this very worthwhile legislation that would protect our children going forward. Despite the comments from the NDP across the way,

Justice  Mr. Speaker, the Liberal leader offers very few solutions when it comes to getting tough on crime. He panders to the drug users rather than joining our government in getting tough on traffickers and producers of drugs. On Monday, he said he would reintroduce a bill to decriminali

Canada-Panama Free Trade Act  Madam Speaker, the member and his party are going to oppose this free trade agreement, as they have opposed so many other free trade agreements before, but he mentioned that one of the reasons he is opposing it is because he believes there is a failure to protect labour and the e

Canada-Panama Free Trade Act  Mr. Speaker, the hyperbole coming from the member is breathtaking. Canadians have seen why they elected a Conservative government to protect the economy and prosperity of this country and why the NDP has no hope of ever leading Canada. He suggested that our government does not t

Canada-Panama Free Trade Act  You should be embarrassed.

Canada-Panama Free Trade Act  Mr. Speaker, I am very disappointed with the member and the Bloc for not supporting this free trade agreement. Canada is one of the great free trading nations of the world. We heard earlier today that in order to grow our economy to ensure our future prosperity it was critical th

Canada-Panama Free Trade Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend for his support of the Canada-Panama free trade agreement. He is correct in suggesting that Canada, as one of the great free trading nations, needs to develop new trading relationships. Where his argument falls down is the suggestion that previou

Combating Terrorism Act  Mr. Speaker, I believe the hon. member is referring to preventive detention. The bill contains provisions that allow our authorities to undertake investigations, including detention, to provide them with the opportunity to intervene and question people who may have knowledge abou

Combating Terrorism Act  Mr. Speaker, yes, there are safeguards. We looked to the Australian model and the U.K. model. We realized that the period of detention might not necessarily meet with the favour required to pass the legislation. There are provisions that provide for a short period of detention in

Combating Terrorism Act  First, Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Burnaby—New Westminster has t it all wrong. He seems to think that this measure is one of either we use it or we lose it. Canadians are demanding that we have in place the tools that are necessary to actually get the job done. I am so pleas

Combating Terrorism Act  Mr. Speaker, if they have not been jailed, why do we need the census in the first place? This is an attempt by the Liberals to change the channel on this bill, which is about terrorism and getting tough on terrorism and ensuring we have the tools to intervene when there are terro