Softwood Lumber Products Export Charge Act, 2006  Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the Prime Minister and the Minister of International Trade for all the hard work they have done this year to bring about this deal on softwood lumber with our neighbour to the south. I take great pleasure in speaking in the House to Bill C-24, a bill

Softwood Lumber Products Export Charge Act, 2006  Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The House has made good progress today on the business before it. I thank all members for their cooperation and want to wish everyone a pleasant holiday weekend. I believe you would find consent to see the clock at 2:30.

Sight First Campaign  Mr. Speaker, I am a Lion and proud of it. Yes, I am member of the Teulon and District Lions Club, a community-minded service organization. Today I want to draw attention to the Lions International Sight First campaign. I am wearing a purple and yellow band that recognizes the Li

Agriculture  Mr. Speaker, the Canadian agriculture industry is being faced with long term human resource challenges that require the joint efforts of industry leaders, educators and other stakeholders. Could the Minister of Human Resources and Social Development please tell the House what

Emergency Management Act  Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Winnipeg talked about a lot of different issues and only a very few of those really refer to the bill itself. The bill talks about increasing the cooperation between all jurisdictions in disasters. My hon. colleague made mention of the Red River fl

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to present a petition today by constituents from across my riding who support an increase in the age of consent from 14 to 16 years of age. The petitioners feel that children under 16 years of age are those who are most vulnerable to sexual exploitation

Interparliamentary Delegations  Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 34(1), I have the honour to present to the House, in both official languages, the report of the Canadian delegation of the Inter-Parliamentary Forum of the Americas, Canadian section, respecting its participation in the 14th executive commi

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. It is quite clear that the opposition parties are in favour of the motion and the government is not and therefore I ask that you seek unanimous consent to carry the motion on division and then we can get on with orders of the day.

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, like my colleague, I am a farmer. I used to deal quite extensively with the dairy cattle industry and dairy farmers when I was a dairy cattle buyer before the devastation that BSE brought and limited the amount of market access we had for our high quality dairy genet

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague from the Bloc, the agriculture critic, for his intervention today in bringing forward the motion from the agriculture committee. The Government of Canada, the Conservative Party of Canada, fully supports our dairy farmers. There is no qu

Liberal Party of Canada  Mr. Speaker, this weekend 11 wannabes gathered for the first Liberal leadership debate. After such a boring and visionless showing, let us call them Waffley, Blurry, Burny, Shakey, Lefty, Yappy, Five-Hole, Who, American Nomad, Shouty, and Doc. Let us discover some of their real i

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I am a western MP and many people would be surprised to learn that in my prairie riding I have 1,300 commercial fishermen on Lakes Winnipeg and Manitoba who are very dependent upon having fully functioning small craft harbours to get their whitefish boats in and out

Correctional Service of Canada  Mr. Speaker, under the past Liberal government, Canada's corrections officers were doing their own hard time for four long years without a labour contract. The former government dithered and failed to act in good faith in the negotiations. Former Treasury Board President Reg Al

Criminal Code  That you are not used to at all.

Criminal Code  That is propaganda?