Aerospace Industry  Mr. Speaker, instead of working on Bombardier's recovery, the government is going to cause this flagship Quebec company to be dismantled and bought out by foreigners. That is what this government is doing by forcing the company to do away with its multiple-voting shares. This go

Air Canada  Mr. Speaker, the law requires Air Canada to have all the maintenance of its aircraft done here in Canada. We are talking about 2,600 jobs and dozens of providers of airplane parts. The Air Canada outsourcing legislation would require Air Canada to have only some of its maintenanc

Tax Avoidance  Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague, the member for Saint-Maurice—Champlain, for his remarks. I do recognize the efforts that are being made. However, the money that is being spent, the additional auditors, and the work being done are meant to detect fraudsters, in

Tax Avoidance  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from Sherbrooke for his question. A Canada-Barbados tax treaty has existed since 1980. It was amended in 1999, retroactive to 1994. The international treaty states that if a shell company exists in Barbados, when the profits are repatriated to

Tax Avoidance  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from Mount Royal. Section 5907 that is targeted in the motion focuses on Barbados. That is Canada's tax haven. Some $71 billion is hidden there. By way of comparison, when it comes to Panama, we are talking about $128 million. Nonetheless, se

Tax Avoidance  moved: That, in the opinion of the House, the government should put an end to the widespread tax avoidance practised by many shell companies set up in Barbados by Canadian companies, by amending subsection 95(1) of Income Tax Act and section 5907 of the Income Tax Regulations t

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, the government has once again dismissed the unanimous will of Quebec. I will give it a second chance This morning, the Quebec National Assembly unanimously adopted another motion. It calls on the federal government to work with Quebec to implement the motion I will

Motions for Papers  Madam Speaker, I would ask you to call Notice of Motion for the Production of Papers No. P-9 and I would call for the question. That a humble Address be presented to His Excellency praying that he will cause to be laid before the House a copy of the agreement between the feder

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, the Minister of National Revenue just announced that 100 investigators would be hired to identify tax fraud. That is all well and good, but the problem is that it is essentially legal to use tax havens, since Liberal and Conservative governments drafted the tax rules

Agriculture and Agri-Food  Mr. Speaker, under the supply management system that the government has promised to protect, the milk we consume in Canada must be produced here. A few weeks ago, the minister himself acknowledged that imported milk proteins are problematic. The minister has not backed up his fin

Income Tax Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. We support Bill C-2. Yes, it will have an impact, but we feel it should have gone much farther. Let me go over the numbers. This measure will apply to incomes between $45,000 and $90,000 or more, but the gross income must be

Income Tax Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for the question. Yesterday, the Bloc Québécois expressed what it would like to see in the budget, and we also presented our expectations to the Minister of Finance. We held more than a hundred consultations throughout Quebec to meet with diffe

Income Tax Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. I am pleased to learn that he is a mechanic because he probably found that very helpful as the owner of a Neon. I am well aware that higher taxes on the very wealthy can have a negative impact, and that is something we always h

Income Tax Act  Mr. Speaker, what I like best about Bill C-2 is the tax hike for the richest 1%. In my opinion, the income gap is too wide and that is the most glaring problem in our current capitalist society, together with the extreme pressure that our economic system is placing on the environ

Canada Revenue Agency  Mr. Speaker, given that Quebec is not yet a country, it is at the mercy of Ottawa's decisions in matters of international taxation. The decision by the Canada Revenue Agency to grant an amnesty to 20 millionaires who were hiding their money in tax havens deprives Quebec of revenu