Taxation  Mr. Speaker, I would invite my hon. colleague to read the budget in its entirety, because actually this budget is a budget for middle-class Canadians and Canadian families. We are the government that reduced the taxes for the middle class. Nine million Canadians are paying less t

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my hon. colleague for her question. This is the government that is tackling tax evasion. We are investing $444.4 million to tackle tax evasion, which will do three things: provide technology to the Canada Revenue Agency, provide teams to the Ca

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my hon. colleague for his question. As I said, this is the government that is tackling tax evasion. We talked about it in the recent budget and even during the election campaign. Well before the Panama papers, the Liberal team was saying that t

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, I am so happy for the question from the hon. member. Let me quote from the independent parliamentary budget officer talking about our budget: ...we believe that ultimately these measures will have a sizable impact on the Canadian economy”. That is what the PBO

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, Canadians understand, and everyone in this House should understand, that in the last month of the fiscal year our expenses are going up and our revenues are going down. The Conservatives have left us a deficit. Let me say what the independent parliamentary budget o

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, this budget is historic in investing in Canadians. We have reduced taxes for nine million Canadians already, which is helping our economy. We have the Canada child benefit, which is going to help nine families out of 10, lift hundreds of thousands of children out of

Taxation  Madam Speaker, let us be clear once and for all on this issue. The tax rate for small businesses went from 11% to 10.5% as of January 1, 2016. Those are the facts. What Canadian businesses need is a strong economy, and it is exactly what budget 2016 would do. We are investing i

Taxation  Madam Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for his question. Let us get the facts straight on this. The tax rate for small businesses went from 11% to 10.5% in January 2016. Our commitment during the election campaign was to invest in the Canadian economy specifically to benefit s

Taxation  Madam Speaker, I would invite my hon. colleague to read the entire budget. What we have done is historic. We are investing $1 billion in clean tech across the country to ensure we can invest in innovation and new technology. That is what Canadians wanted; that is what we are deli

Excise Tax Act  Madam Speaker, first of all, let me say how much I respect the member's point of view and his private member's bill. I think everyone in this chamber has enormous respect for the time and effort put forward by every member putting forward a private member's bill. I am sure that

Excise Tax Act  Madam Speaker, I am very pleased. I was not looking at talking notes, but I was looking at the facts. Actually, we not only spoke, but we acted in the last budget. By enhancing the Canada student grants, we will have given $1.53 billion over five years to students and education.

Air Canada Public Participation Act  Mr. Speaker, what a performance. People at home had a chance to hear the leader. I have a great deal of respect for my colleague, a fellow lawyer who likes to lecture us every day in the House. After seeing another performance much like the ones we see every day, let us now talk

Air Canada Public Participation Act  Mr. Speaker, I would first like to thank my colleague from Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot. I have a lot of respect for her work and her commitment. I come from the Mauricie area. The aerospace industry is not one of our major industries, but I want to tell my colleague that our industry

Air Canada Public Participation Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. I respect the member for Outremont, but I am appalled that he is bringing up issues that are not even in the bill during the debate. As a lawyer, the member for Outremont, like all our other colleagues who worked in the legal p

Air Canada Public Participation Act  Mr. Speaker, I have heard my colleagues, and I have respect for all my colleagues' views. The purpose of having a Parliament is to listen to each other. I have heard some of them criticizing that we call it modernization. However, having lived across the world, the airline indust