Cracking Down on Crooked Consultants Act  Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my hon. colleague for the opportunity to report that all too often, families come to my riding office with stories of promises people made to them, of work they had done, of handing over money and getting no help in return, if they were lucky.

Cracking Down on Crooked Consultants Act  Madam Speaker, I have not yet had the opportunity to attend a committee meeting, but I can say with absolute certainty that the Liberal Party will continue to respect Quebec's jurisdiction over immigration and other matters.

Cracking Down on Crooked Consultants Act  Mr. Speaker, I was obviously not in the House in 2004, but I know that for many years, since the 1980s, voters have often told members of the House that they were exploited, mistreated, misled and stripped of their savings by immigration consultants who did not do their job very

Government Priorities  Mr. Speaker, despite the fact that we are dealing with a government for which lack of transparency and excuses are the norm, an analysis of speeches made in the House was quite telling. After eliminating words common to all, openparliament.ca reveals that the word most commonly

Citizenship Week  Mr. Speaker, it is with pride that I draw the attention of the House to Citizenship Week 2010, a celebration of our rights as well as an acknowledgement of our responsibilities. This week gives us an opportunity to reflect on and talk about both the practical and symbolic implica

Census  Mr. Speaker, yesterday we celebrated the first world statistics day. However, Canadian statisticians spent the day in mourning. Recent months have been difficult for the best statistical agency in the world after losing its best source of information and its chief statistician.

Homeless Youth  Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to speak today to support the RE*Generation movement, which was created to raise awareness about the problem of youth homelessness in Canada. The RE*Generation movement aims to raise awareness of youth homelessness, as well as to encourage better engag

Preventing Human Smugglers From Abusing Canada's Immigration System Act  Madam Speaker, the arrival on Canadian shores of the latest two boats filled with Tamil refugee claimants has generated many concerns from the public. Opinion polls suggest that the vast majority of Canadians want future boats to be turned away and the Tamil refugee claimants to

Preventing Human Smugglers From Abusing Canada's Immigration System Act  Madam Speaker, this ultimately is the kind of bill that is being presented here. We have indicated that we have grave concerns about particular pieces of this legislation. The government has indicated that it is a very important piece of legislation. Canadians have indicated tha

Preventing Human Smugglers From Abusing Canada's Immigration System Act  Madam Speaker, I am glad to defer to the hon. minister's expertise on demagoguery. What is odious about this piece of legislation is that it is dividing Canadians into two Canadas. He is talking about new Canadians who have one particular perception of things and other Canadians

Sustaining Canada's Economic Recovery Act  Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Finance recently announced that Canada is facing a record deficit of $55.6 billion. I am always amazed that this government has no problem spending billions of dollars on the G20 and its fake lake, on the F-35 fighter jets—which might not even be the

Sustaining Canada's Economic Recovery Act  Mr. Speaker, it is interesting to note that the member represents a riding on the very west coast of the country, very far from my riding of Papineau, and the concerns faced by citizens in both of our ridings are very much the same. The need for affordable housing in Papineau is

Sustaining Canada's Economic Recovery Act  Mr. Speaker, the Liberal Party supported the budget because we believed a lot of what the Conservative government had to say. We had some concerns about some of the directions and some of the decisions that were taken within the budget, but we agreed that Canada needed to spend,

Media Literacy Week  Mr. Speaker, Marshall McLuhan wrote, “New media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression”. This week we are celebrating the fifth annual Media Literacy Week. Media literacy has evolved with the

Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada  Mr. Speaker, today the Winnipeg Free Press admitted that it made a mistake in an editorial and a headline by making a false accusation about the Leader of the Opposition. It is now perfectly clear that our leader was not playing political games. He called for a straight-up fight