Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, our country has actually been built on fairness and freedom, and as my colleague has already mentioned, the issue with respect to that freedom empowering each of us as Canadians with regard to our private and individual rights. As a practising physician, I take ver

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I thank the member opposite for his presentation. However, I do have cause for concern. We continue to hear from the government about consultations, as opposed to action. For the people in my riding, at Honda, we saw action taken when our government was in place

Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, actually there is data. I encourage him to go on PubMed and look it up. It shows that the implementation of these kinds of tax-free or positive incentives to have families and children participate show that more children participate. That is why it is so disappointin

Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I guess what I have issue with is that our initiatives actually impacted every Canadian family and every Canadian child. As the Liberals will say again and again themselves, only 9 out of ten actually benefit from what they are doing. As my colleague earlier mention

Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I agree with the member opposite. The deficit is getting much worse. The government promised a $10-billion deficit, which I found quite concerning to begin with, but it is actually $29.4 billion. Ours was a government that the parliamentary budget officer has alrea

Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, first and foremost, I would like to express my deepest sympathies to the thousands of families who have lost their homes and businesses and are currently displaced from Fort McMurray, Alberta. Our thoughts and prayers are with them. I ask all Canadians to support the

Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, one of the things that the member did not touch on was the specific decision by the government to eliminate the children's fitness tax credit. This was a tax credit created that benefited every Canadian child, not just nine out of 10 Canadian children, but actually

Fort McMurray Fire  Mr. Speaker, last night the home I grew up in, a home that my father built, burned down in Fort McMurray, Alberta. As many members may be aware, forest fires have forced the evacuation of literally tens of thousands of Canadians from their homes, families who actually no longer

Daffodil Month  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to speak today about Daffodil Month. This is the Canadian Cancer Society's month to raise funds in support of fellow Canadians who have lived with cancer. Currently, two in five Canadians will develop some form of cancer. My family was i

Federal Public Sector Labour Relations Act  Madam Speaker, I know that the government is moving forward because of the Supreme Court ruling and what needs to happen with respect to the subject matter, but I will ask the question yet again with respect to secret ballot voting and the opportunity for allowing democratic acti

Points of Order  Mr. Speaker, as much as I do appreciate your commending all of us on International Women's Day, I would like to ask why you removed a woman from the speaker's list today. I recognize that you have made a point of this, but I am not sure why you would actually punish someone in th

Veterans Affairs  Mr. Speaker, yesterday we asked the Minister of Veterans Affairs to give Canadians an explanation as to why the Liberals were cancelling the Afghanistan war memorial. There were 40,000 brave men and women in Afghanistan, some who trained in my riding of Base Borden and served th

Justice  Mr. Speaker, Health Canada spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to encourage Canadians to stop smoking. Now the government wants Canadian kids to have access to a drug to smoke, marijuana. Parents are scared and concerned for their children. The government is sending

Canada's Contribution to the Effort to Combat ISIL  Mr. Speaker, I would like to repeat one of the quotes that has been spoken about by some of the members today and also ask my colleague for his comments on it. It is from Prime Minister David Cameron. “We shouldn't be content with outsourcing our security to our allies. If we bel

Canada's Contribution to the Effort to Combat ISIL  Mr. Speaker, I represent a riding that has a large base in it, Base Borden. There are many families who obviously support our men and women in uniform, continually. Now that the mission involves more risk, all Canadians, particularly the families of the soldiers being deployed,