Cost of Living Relief Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, of course it could have been tabled earlier. Whether that would have been a wise tabling, I do not really know. This is part of an array of initiatives on the part of the Government of Canada to mitigate the complaints we are all hearing. There is not a member in t

Cost of Living Relief Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, as members know, I have been here for a long time, some might say too long, and every government that has ever been here in that time has always said there are savings to be found over here, over there, etc. What the hon. member is describing is very difficult work.

Cost of Living Relief Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, the benefit of being here a long time is that this seems to be a go-to position of my friends on the left. There is an excess profits tax. All of these companies the member is complaining about, if they fall within the band of excess profits, will be taxed directly

Cost of Living Relief Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to speak to Bill C-30 and add my voice to this. I hope I am bringing a bit more light than heat, because I have been listening here for a while and there seems to be a lot of heat but I am not sure how much light there is in it. I am spl

Cost of Living Relief Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I certainly would not regard my Conservative colleagues as enemies of the state. They are possibly a bit misguided, but they are not in any way or sense an enemy. I just wondered whether the member regards Bill C-30 as bribing Canadians with their own money.

Cost of Living Relief Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, the House will be interested to know that I am literally in the market for a deck. If one asks for quotes for a deck, one will get price x and then price y for cash. What it speaks to is the number of people who do not file income tax returns and therefore will not b

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present to the House, in both official languages, the second report of the Standing Committee on National Defence entitled “Modernizing Recruitment and Retention in the Canadian Armed Forces”. Pursuant to Standing Order 109, the committee reque

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, the member comes from the general GTA area, as do I. He and I have been through a number of elections. As chair of the public safety committee, I listened to endless testimony about guns. I have yet to hear a coherent reason why anyone in Guelph or anyone in Scarbo

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the first report of the Standing Committee on National Defence, entitled “An Interim Report on the Defence of Canada in a Rapidly Changing Threat Environment”. This is the first report of the defence committee,

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I am shocked. The federal government is already taxing those who are making excess profits. There is an excess profits tax built right into the system, so I am not quite sure what the hon. member is driving at, but those companies that are making extraordinary in

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I appreciate that question from the hon. member, because in a speech I made about a year ago, or sometime around then, I flagged that particular issue. In fact, from my own grocery shopping, I recognized that inflation was here. I actually sat down with the PBO at

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, in saying “a false solution to a real problem”, the hon. member described it better than I did, and I think he is right. With respect to the revenues, yes, inflation has that effect of giving the revenues a temporary boost, but it is a temporary boost, because on

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I find the motion actually pretty easy to vote against. Whoever wrote the motion has been quite brilliant at describing the issue, but not nearly so brilliant at describing the solution. You might be interested in knowing, Madam Speaker, that I do all the family

Committees of the House  Madam Speaker, I want to share an experience with the hon. member about NATO. I was travelling with John Manley, the then foreign affairs minister. Our itinerary was London, Paris, Riga and Berlin. When we were in Riga, the President of Latvia came into the room and she harangued

Committees of the House  Madam Speaker, I consider myself a friend of the Hon. Andrew Leslie, whose service to the nation is well respected. In some respects, as my speech indicated, we do not get the seriousness of the threat that Putin-ism presents to us. Ukrainians are fighting for us as well as for