Ethics  Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Finance has become quite skilled at avoiding Canadians' questions. Yesterday, the House Leader of the Official Opposition asked the minister a simple question. She asked whether he was the one who signed the memorandum to cabinet for Bill C-27. Can m

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Finance's record is atrocious. The minister initially told Canadians that there would be a small deficit of $10 billion, and now it is $20 billion. Even worse, he is racking up untold debt for future generations. There was supposed to be a balanced b

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, it does not matter what the Liberals do to improve the finance minister's image, nothing can be done. Ethical problems always seem to follow him around. Canadians know very well that the finance minister did not follow the advice of the Conflict of Interest and Eth

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, I agree with my colleague that the Minister of Finance must have a high level of integrity, but this is not the case. Canadians have lost confidence, and now small-business owners are worried. Business owners will be hit with tax increases, but we know nothing more

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, the Minister keeps telling us that no changes have been made to the eligibility criteria for people with type 1 diabetes. We have now learned that senior officials in her own department confirmed that the tax credit should be denied to most people with type 1 diabete

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, we have a finance minister that does not abide by the mandate letter that was given to him by his Prime Minister, along with instructions to honour his mandate and follow ethics laws. The finance minister is under investigation by the Conflict of Interest and Ethic

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, we have a Minister of Finance who was fined by the Ethics Commissioner because he forgot to disclose his villa in France and who is also being investigated for sponsoring a bill that could benefit his family company. We have a Minister of Finance who is still refusin

Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, speaking of equalization, is my colleague proud of the fact that Quebec receives so much money through equalization, more than $10 billion? Should Quebec not strive to stop receiving equalization payments? That would make Quebec a “have” province. Should we not be m

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, it is sad that today, and for the past few days, we have had to ask the Minister of Finance the same question without getting an answer. We expect that a minister who manages public finances should be able to answer specific and simple questions. We have repeatedly

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, it is simple. We are calling for the resignation of the country's chief financial officer, given that he has lost our confidence. The Minister of Finance is caught up in conflicts of interest. He forgot to declare his villa in Europe and he made transactions that wi

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the Minister of Finance. He has just answered, for the first time in this House, the question that we have been asking him for weeks, namely whether he was the person who sold shares in his family business, Morneau Shepell, on November 30, 2015. He sa

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, in answer to one of my colleagues, the minister said earlier that the finance minister's fiscal measures affect the stock market, and I believe it. He said the market went up after the budget was tabled. If the finance minister's fiscal measures have an impact, then

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, Mr. Morneau's office confirmed to the National Post that someone sold more than 680 shares—

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, the minister's office told the National Post that someone sold 680,000 Morneau Shepell shares in November 2015 at $15 a share, which allowed that person to save half a million dollars. My question is simple. Was that person the Minister of Finance?

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, my colleague said that the minister works with the Ethics Commissioner. If that is true, did he ask the Ethics Commissioner for permission before selling 680,000 shares in his family company, which allowed him to make a $500,000 profit, since the value of those share