Committees of the House  Madam Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the 55th report of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, entitled, “Report 6, Employment Training for Indigenous People—Employment and Social Development Canada, of the 2018 Spring Reports of the Audito

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, Alberta is losing over $80 million a day on heavily discounted oil. We are losing foreign investment that is leaving Alberta and Canada. We have lost over 100,000 jobs, and the bleeding is not about to stop anytime soon, because the current government has halted, can

Canada's Oil and Gas Sector  Mr. Speaker, on Monday night we debated in an emergency debate about the 2,500 people laid off in Oshawa. I appreciated the member's speech then, and I appreciate it again tonight. There is nothing that would shut down investment in Alberta and investment in Canada like Bill C-6

Canada's Oil and Gas Sector  Madam Speaker, I appreciate that very gentle rebuke. We sat here listening to rhetoric tonight for the last 10 minutes and we did not hear once about the workers. Tonight's emergency debate is about the 100,000 workers who have been laid off from this sector and we did not hear

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, Tides Canada has led the coordinated campaign against the construction of new pipelines and the Alberta energy sector. We know foreign money flows into Tides to help fund that campaign. However, this morning we found out that the Liberal government has decided to fl

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the 54th report of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, entitled, “Report 5—Socio-Economic Gaps on First Nations Reserves—Indigenous Services Canada, of the 2018 Spring Reports of the Auditor General of

Auditor General of Canada  Mr. Speaker, the Liberals continually brag about their use of the long-form census and their use of evidence, methodology, analytics and data. According to the Auditor General of Canada, they have absolutely nothing to brag about. In fact, they are just plain wrong. In report a

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the 53rd report of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, entitled “Report 1—Building and Implementing the Phoenix Pay System”, of the 2018 spring reports of the Auditor General of Canada. Pursuant to Sta

Veterans Affairs  Mr. Speaker, those who served our country deserve our utmost respect, gratitude and support. However, complaint after complaint rolls in about the Liberal government's neglect of veterans and their needs. My constituent writes, “I am a military veteran...In mid April 2018 Veter

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, the former attorney general of Canada is sitting right here. Very clearly, in the 10 years the Conservatives were in government, we filled those vacancies, and we filled them regularly. Yes, there were always openings, and we filled them as soon as we could. We s

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, that is a very sad question from the member. He stated that we should look at how the Liberals have helped indigenous people, and then he said that they have put billions upon billions of dollars into it. We have a government that believes that throwing billions of

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, it is a real pleasure to speak to Bill C-75, an act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other acts and to make consequential amendments to other acts. I have real concerns about the legislation, as do many stakeholders, including the Can

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, I want to share a quick quote. With respect to the current government's dealing with first nations indigenous programs, our Auditor General described it as an “incomprehensible failure of the federal government to influence better conditions for Indigenous people i

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, the parliamentary secretary talked about speeding up the court system and access to justice and faster court times, believing that turning some of these very serious offences into summary offences or hybrid offences would somehow speed it up. There is another opti

Budget Implementation Act, 2018 No. 2  Madam Speaker, I remember when we brought forward budget after budget. I think for our last budget, which was a balanced budget, the budget implementation bill was, if I remember correctly, 400 pages, maybe 500 pages. Members of the opposition party at that time which is now the