Anti-Terrorism Act  Madam Speaker, Bill C-36 is possibly the most important piece of legislation the House will deal with in the life of this parliament. Therefore it needs a great deal of scrutiny from both sides of the House. All Canadians have been victimized by those terrorists. Some Canadians

International Actions Against Terrorism  Mr. Chairman, I would like to take a slightly different approach and talk about some of our new best friends. Any army that is going to war likes to know who its friends are and who are its enemies. Our new best friends, our allies, now support the so-called war against terroris

Organized Crime  Mr. Speaker, when the justice committee studied organized crime we learned that money laundering is the lifeblood of organized crime. Organized crime uses the latest in technology and all the advantages of the global economy to launder its ill-gotten gains. Could the solicitor g

Supply  Mr. Speaker, I want to commend the NDP Party for putting forward this resolution. It is certainly something that is in need of debate. I wanted to join in with the first part of the resolution. Members have condemned this act of terrorism and I wanted to add my voice to that of t

Supply  Mr. Speaker, my colleague asked two questions: one with respect to the support for our U.S. brethren and the second with respect to tolerance in this country. On the first question with respect to support for our U.S. brethren, at this point our response as a nation has been exe

Supply  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the hon. member pointing out the distinction between offensive and defensive. Clearly NATO is a defensive alliance. Article 5 was invoked, and we are creating a response. Where we go from there and how we move into an offensive response is probably up fo

Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank the House for the opportunity to participate in this important debate. The hon. member for Charlesbourg--Jacques-Cartier has stated that while it does provide some difficulties for us all, there are those of us who consider parliament to be a very significant

Interfaith Prayer Service  Mr. Speaker, after the events of September 11 many people of faith were left bereft of comfort. Some were wondering whether the powerful need to seek justice would unfairly target a certain faith or certain ethnicities. Indeed there was evidence to support those fears. The Parli

Supply  Madam Speaker, first of all let me deal with the member's reference to the wishes of the constituents. Some ideas that I receive from my constituents frankly should not see the light of day as they are awful. I am elected as a member to exercise judgment. There are ideas, however

Supply  Madam Speaker, this will probably be my last opportunity to wish you well during the summer. I hope all members have a relaxing summer, notwithstanding what some of our constituents might think. The reason for the motion is quite simple. A lot of members in the House are pretty

Parliament Of Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, for this opportunity to speak on the bill I would like to split my remarks into two parts, the first part with respect to actual compensation and the second part with respect to the role and responsibilities of a member of parliament. I will not spend a lot of time

Supply  Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague opposite seems to want to have it both ways. He wants money to be transferred to provincial revenues and simultaneously he acknowledges that there is an enormous debt which needs to be dealt with. He ignores quite nicely the earlier part of my spee

Supply  Mr. Speaker, in some respects I do not disagree with the hon. gentleman opposite, but he should be aware of the fact that provincial revenues last year were $181 billion and federal revenues were $166 billion. We transferred $34 billion to the provinces. We transferred a further

Supply  Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the hon. member for Waterloo—Wellington. This debate is like Yogi Berra saying déjà vu all over again. We do seem to be going at this once again. The provincial premiers meet in Saskatchewan and their surrogates coincidentally rise u

Youth Criminal Justice Act  Mr. Speaker, the final point I want to make, as opposed to the points my hon. colleagues want to make, is that Canada over-relies on incarceration. If the bill does one thing alone, hopefully it will reduce incarceration for young offenders.