Enhancing Transparency and Accountability in the Transportation System Act  Madam Speaker, I also want to call on the expertise of the hon. member with respect to competition in the airlines. We have seen WestJet pull back. We have seen Porter expand. We see the Billy Bishop airport wishing to expand and being able to accept jets. We have seen quite a nu

Enhancing Transparency and Accountability in the Transportation System Act  Madam Speaker, I would be interested in the hon. member's comments with respect to the ease with which passengers are getting through security, particularly at Pearson airport. I had the experience on the break week of travelling to Washington and, frankly, the experience was a

Enhancing Transparency and Accountability in the Transportation System Act  Madam Speaker, let me put it this way. If we do not pass this legislation, the complaints we already have, which are in abundance in this chamber alone, will only multiply and the frustration will go forward. Frankly, I do not know whether the analysis we hear particularly from

Enhancing Transparency and Accountability in the Transportation System Act  Madam Speaker, it should be an operating principle that the board reflects the travelling public. How we achieve that I am not quite sure. My preference would be a less onerous way of going about it, but there is no doubt the principle should be that the board looks like the trav

Enhancing Transparency and Accountability in the Transportation System Act  Madam Speaker, first of all, I congratulate those folks who made it to 70 years. That is quite impressive. The hon. member has a contradiction in his question. Here is legislation that would deal with the so-called bungling, which I disagree with profoundly, and he is going to

Enhancing Transparency and Accountability in the Transportation System Act  Madam Speaker, I will say at the outset that I will be splitting my time with the member for Vaughan—Woodbridge, who has some expertise in this subject. I make no claim to expertise. I am a mere consumer of transportation services, just like pretty well everyone else in the cham

Enhancing Transparency and Accountability in the Transportation System Act  Madam Speaker, I would like to carry on from the two previous questions and the information in the bill. The bill would create a formal process for notifying and consulting the public on changes to aerospace designs that affect aircraft noise near airports and ensure that communi

Enhancing Transparency and Accountability in the Transportation System Act  Madam Speaker, there seems to be some confusion between what is law and what is regulation. This would be a law that possibly sets up an agency for the creation of regulations. This is not the place to ask for specific standards as to when baggage should or should not arrive or

Enhancing Transparency and Accountability in the Transportation System Act  Madam Speaker, I always take great joy when the hon. member is speaking in this chamber. Some days bring more joy than others. I know I am going to have a bad day when I hear someone on an airplane thanking me for my patience. It usually means I am either having a bad day or I a

National Security Review of Investments Modernization Act  Madam Speaker, foreign investment has generally been based on the size of the transaction and/or the sector in the transaction. It has now come to the point where size or sector does not actually matter, in terms of security review and the sensitivities involved. Small companies

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I associate myself with the hon. member's observations with respect to the Conservative Party. It is puzzling, to say as a generous observation, and hypocritical may be less generous. However, I am particularly interested in the ultimate hypocrisy that we are not h

National Defence  Mr. Speaker, in August I had the privilege of leading a delegation of defence committee members to Europe. In the U.K., we saw Canadian soldiers teaching Ukrainian recruits how to navigate minefields without blowing themselves up. These young men will shortly be on the battlefi

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the fifth report of the Standing Committee on National Defence, entitled “The Cyber Defence of Canada”. Pursuant to Standing Order 109, the committee requests that the government table a comprehensive respons

Forced Labour and Child Labour  Mr. Speaker, last month Bill S-211, the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act, passed in the House and received royal assent. The bill is now law. It is designed to rid our supply chains of slave products. Simultaneously, in the town of Markham, Sh

Interparliamentary Delegations  Mr. Speaker, I have the honour of tabling nine reports from the very active Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group. As members know, parliamentary diplomacy is extraordinarily important, particularly with our largest ally. I want to commend all of the members who partici