Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy  Mr. Speaker, this is questions or comments and I was making three interesting comments. Of course my comment on the Prime Minister's good work was in response to the member's comment. The third comment I wanted to make was on the initiative that the minister, along with the memb

Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act  Mr. Speaker, to ensure that the people who are just tuning in understand this finance related bill, the equalization payments are running out at the end of the federal government's fiscal year, March 31, and we need to put a provision in place. Negotiations are underway to renew

Auditor General's Report  Mr. Speaker, the amount of money that goes to first nations for managers is public record.

Frostbite Music Festival  Mr. Speaker, the exciting winter warming activities in Yukon start this weekend with the Frostbite Music Festival, with fantastic talent from across Canada. This is followed shortly thereafter by the Yukon Quest, the world's longest international dog race. It goes a thousand mile

Resumption Of Debate On Address In Reply  Mr. Speaker,I thank the member for his congratulations. I am delighted the member has asked the question, because I can talk on a couple of points. I did not mention the democratic deficit in my speech because I actually talked about it at length yesterday. Therefore I did not r

Resumption Of Debate On Address In Reply  Mr. Speaker, I am thrilled to be able to rise today and make some comments on the throne speech. I will begin by talking about aboriginal people in the north and end by talking about a number of other areas, which I was quite happy to see in the throne speech, until my time runs

Reinstatement of Government Bills  Mr. Speaker, I assume the hon. member from Sackville—Musquodoboit Valley—Eastern Shore will be voting for this bill after his eloquent speech on why there should not be prorogation so we could deal with these excellent bills. I want to compliment the Bloc for patiently putting u

Reinstatement of Government Bills  Mr. Speaker, the member should remember that we already had a free vote on the gun registry in November. I am quite happy to say that I voted against it. The member did not answer my first question. All the mayors of the large cities gave all sorts of statements on how effective

Reinstatement of Government Bills  Mr. Speaker, I always enjoy debating with that member but I have to take issue with his comment about the democratic deficit that the new Prime Minister is putting forward and has been putting forward since the very speech he mentioned. It has been mentioned so many times in the

Reinstatement of Government Bills  Mr. Speaker, as the member knows, the closure of Parliament was independent and for reasons other than to cut off those bills. That is why those important bills are being brought forward. In relation to closure, I think the former House leader was very eloquent in explaining tha

Reinstatement of Government Bills  Mr. Speaker, I am not sure I totally caught the gist of the question. The point I was making was that part of the platform of the Conservative Party, or at least of some of the former members when they were in the Alliance, and even since the debate, was about cutting regional de

Reinstatement of Government Bills  There we have it. The Conservative member across the floor has just said yes. The opposition wants to bring all these bills back, give the same speeches delivered by members at each stage of debate, the very same witnesses being called to make exactly the same presentations and h

Reinstatement of Government Bills  Mr. Speaker, I want to carry on with the debate we were having a moment ago because the hon. member did not really answer the question. The former leader said that he would not follow the polls of the constituents in the Alliance ridings but that member said that he would follow

Reinstatement of Government Bills  Mr. Speaker, to pick up on that last point saying that it has never been done before, it has been done before on many occasions but with the same Prime Minister and so here is an occasion where it is a new Prime Minister and so this has occurred. A law is a good law worth debatin

Reinstatement of Government Bills  Mr. Speaker, I always enjoy listening to the hon. member, so much so that I allowed him to speak before me, but perhaps he will regret that. The hon. member said that in the previous government it did not matter what constituents said about the government. He is suggesting that