Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. government whip for the magnanimity in allowing the NDP votes to count. I was able to register my vote, but I was confused by the fact that I had not gotten to my seat yet, with the NDP votes first, as they usually would be, so I would also like my v

Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, I have been wanting to put this question to a government member all day and this gives me a chance to do so. The difficulty I see happening in the House today is more a problem of how well the House leaders are getting along in scheduling time than it is the substa

Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, I know the member was not elected in this place at the time Bill C-60, the omnibus budget bill of spring 2013, first brought in changes to disadvantage credit unions by increasing their tax rates and removing the tax credit they used to have. However, I was pleased t

Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, I am going to pick up on the points that relate to the carbon tax. When putting a price on carbon across the country for business certainty, it is very important that there be the same price on carbon across the country. The use of the term “one-size-fits-all” actua

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, today I have the honour of presenting two petitions. The first petition is from many members throughout my riding as well as stretching into the Edmonton area and calls for the House to refuse to register GMO fish. We know that this petition comes in the face of exi

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, the second petition is similar, but signed by entirely different communities from Victoria, to Meaford, Ontario, to Sherbrooke, Quebec and calls on the Government of Canada and the Parliament of Canada to ensure the labelling of genetically modified products.

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present two petitions. The first petition is from residents throughout my riding as well as Vancouver. The petitioners call upon Parliament to revise the Criminal Code to recognize that crimes against animals should be treated as more than crimes ag

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, the second petition is an e-petition that focuses on the global crisis of the extinction of shark species. The petitioners call upon the Parliament of Canada to limit the importation and sale of species of sharks and to put a reasonable limit on the number of sharks

Canada Pension Plan  Madam Speaker, when it was proposed by the previous government under the former prime minister, Mr. Harper, to change the age of retirement, we talked about the expectations of taxpayers and workers who for all those years had been looking forward to retiring at 65. There was no

Canada Pension Plan  Madam Speaker, I recall in the context of the work that the electoral reform committee is doing right now that the period in which Canada laid down its social safety net—the Canada pension plan, the unemployment insurance plan, our health care plan—was a productive era of the min

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I rise to present two petitions today. The first is one of the new forms of e-petitions. It calls on the Government of Canada to re-examine, and go back to the original use of the Bank of Canada as an interest-free source of loans for worthwhile projects.

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, the second petition is from residents throughout my riding. It calls on the government to support global efforts for small farmers, mostly women, in the global south, and particularly to protect their right to save seeds.

International Trade  Mr. Speaker, here is a scenario. If the CETA agreement were in force and a controversial Ajax mine in Kamloops, British Columbia were turned down by the British Columbia government, the Polish mining company would have the right to bring an arbitration case against Canada. On the

Fall Economic Statement  Mr. Speaker, I have a question that I wanted to pose to the Minister of Finance. I hope my colleague, the parliamentary secretary, will not mind if I put it to him. It is a concern I have about where government spending will occur. On page 67 of the projections, it says that “Co

Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, those are two big topics. On the first one about electricity and selling to the United States, this was raised with the head of our local chamber of commerce in Saanich—Gulf Islands who said that when Quebec sells to another province it counts in the equalization pay