Firearms Registry  Mr. Speaker, Canada's police want to continue to access the data in the long gun registry. The Province of Quebec would like to use the data to create its own gun control system. This is no more a matter of privacy than car registration. Why is the government so intent on destr

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I would like to present a petition calling on the government to amend the Railway Safety Act to require that areas with high pedestrian volume, where trains are known to dim or extinguish their headlights, be fitted with large street lamps, powered by solar energy an

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, the government is about to undermine public safety by getting rid of the gun registry. While the government is rushing to turn its back on its responsibility to protect the safety of Canadians, some provinces seem ready to take on that responsibility. Will the gover

Northern Development  Mr. Speaker, an internal audit of CanNor has found that the agency has violated almost every financial management rule since its creation, including all the directives regarding expense control. Internal audits are not the friends of this government. It should be pointed out that

Keeping Canada's Economy and Jobs Growing Act  Mr. Speaker, I enjoyed listening to the hon. member's speech and my question to him is a simple one. Does he believe that the tax credits he mentioned, the firefighters tax credit and the children's arts tax credit, should be refundable tax credits so that lower income Canadians

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, in this case we see an urgent need that is falling through the cracks. When children have to take their country to the United Nations, obviously the ball has been dropped. That is why we need a kind of national prism that a national strategy provides. Until we ha

Business of Supply  That is a very good question, Madam Speaker. Indeed there are many good programs available. We all recognize that there are programs available in the provinces, at the grassroots level and in communities across the country, but what is needed is the coming together of people an

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the hon. member for Malpeque. I want to commend the hon. member for Toronto Centre and the leader of my party for showing such vision, wisdom, compassion and humanity by making the urgent need for our government to establish a national

Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada's Immigration System Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate my colleague on a very good speech. I have a couple of questions. First, the government brought in Bill C-11 about a year and a half ago. The features of that legislation have not yet been fully implemented. The point of that legislation

Joan Farley  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to the late Joan Farley, a remarkable woman whose vision and actions transformed Montreal's West Island community in profound and lasting ways for the benefit of thousands of children and adults with special needs and their families. Joan

Pointe-Claire  Mr. Speaker, this year the city of Pointe-Claire celebrates its 100th anniversary. Pointe-Claire was originally an agricultural parish built around a windmill on the St. Lawrence River, and it helped spawn a handful of neighbouring municipalities that now form a large part of wh

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With respect to the national crime prevention strategy and the youth gang prevention fund: (a) how much money has been spent on each of these programs in each fiscal year since 2005-2006; and (b) how much money has been spent on advertising for each of these programs in each fisc

Questions on the Order Paper  With regard to the operating budget freeze at the Privy Council Office: (a) what measures were taken to limit spending in the last fiscal year; (b) how many full-time and part-time employees were lost to attrition; (c) how many full-time or part-time employees were laid-off; (d)

Canada Water Preservation Act  moved for leave to introduce Bill C-267, An Act respecting the preservation of Canada’s water resources. Mr. Speaker, I think this is the third time I have introduced this bill, going back a few years. I am hoping that this time it will make it through the legislative process. E

Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada's Immigration System Act  Mr. Speaker, I really do think that is the problem. The bill is responding sensationalistic images in the media of large numbers of people falling off the sides of a boat off the coast of British Columbia. That is what the bill is responding to. The bill is trying to respond to