Canada's Contribution to the Effort to Combat ISIL  Mr. Speaker, I should have shared my time with the hon. member across the floor and not the member for Calgary Nose Hill. However, I appreciate the member's comments on this. The challenge is that this is obviously still an active combat situation. It is a combat situation that

Canada's Contribution to the Effort to Combat ISIL  Mr. Speaker, it is a great question. Part of the challenge, when we are relying on other coalition partners to provide air support to our troops in a combat mission, is the fact that we have communication problems. In fact, in the past, we have seen some collateral damage when c

Canada's Contribution to the Effort to Combat ISIL  Mr. Speaker, I wish to advise that I will be sharing my time with the member for Calgary Nose Hill. I am thankful for the opportunity to speak to this motion, and I want to begin by sincerely thanking the men and women who so proudly serve in our Canadian Forces. I am often remi

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, as my hon. colleagues from Quebec know, I am constantly working on and trying to improve my French. I want to pick up on a point that my colleague from Mégantic—L'Érable brought up. As I read the BDS website, in translation it speaks very clearly to the fact that

Canada Labour Code  Mr. Speaker, with respect, one does not have to be a member of those organizations. If there is a unionized workplace, one has to be a member of that unionized workplace. Therefore, I would suggest that there is no way that the current government is open and transparent when it l

Canada Labour Code  Mr. Speaker, when I look at Bill C-377, I look at the issue of transparency and accountability. I think the members of the previous government did a very good job at making sure that the union members were aware of where their money was going and how it was being spent. This was

Canada Labour Code  Mr. Speaker, I do not see anything that would protect the rights of union members. In fact, in a lot of cases, the money that is being spent by union leaders across this country is really unknown, and not even at the grassroots union membership level do they have the ability to f

Canada Labour Code  Madam Speaker, I have been struggling to find some rational reason why the Liberals have decided to introduce Bill C-4 to repeal Bill C-377 and Bill C-525 without any chance of allowing both bills to be tested over time. I was a proud member of the International Association of F

Canada Labour Code  Madam Speaker, I am personally insulted by some of the inclinations shown here that this is an attack on transparency and accountability. I spent thirty and a half years as a union member. In fact, I was a union president. One of the things our members often talked about was the

Business of the House  Mr. Speaker, obviously the Liberal Party is accountable to the House. We have been receiving information through the House and there are also plenty of media reports out there. I go back to the example I gave of the middle class tax cut, the shell game that the Liberals are play

Business of the House  Mr. Speaker, clearly I am not stating things that I think are false. The document speaks for itself. It is time the Liberals start recognizing this and stop the rhetoric, stop blaming the previous government, when the document does show a surplus is there. The fact is that the L

Business of the House  Mr. Speaker, going by the information that is in front of us, it is clear that what the motion talks about is that our government has left a surplus. It is time the Liberals started recognizing that.

Business of the House  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise in the House today in favour of this motion. I rise with complete objectivity, not being a part of the previous government. I am, however, very proud in the way the country's finances were run by the Conservatives. That is why I am a Conservati

Employment  Mr. Speaker, meanwhile, Ontario, the once proud economic engine of Canada, languishes as a have-not province under an incompetent Liberal government at Queen's Park. Ontario has half a million people looking for work. Young people, like my kids, face especially dismal job prospe

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I want to go back to what the hon. member for Yorkton—Melville said. All day today, during the course of this debate, we have heard support for pay equity on all sides of the House. We have heard some of the aspects of what the Conservative government did to advan