Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I listened with interest to the speech read by my hon. colleague opposite. My question for the member, through you, Mr. Speaker, is what are his views on the appropriateness of the government introducing a motion to limit the debate after 25 minutes on another monst

Pensions  Mr. Speaker, the minister just does not get it. Not being able to afford a decent quality of life in retirement is what hurts Canadian families. Even the minister's own department contradicts his bizarre claim. Government research has shown that gradually expanding the Canada pen

Privilege  Mr. Speaker, I rise today on a question of privilege, pursuant to section 48(1) of the Standing Orders. The matter I wish to raise is, in my view, very serious. The Speaker and his predecessors have ruled on numerous occasions that deliberately misleading the House is a grave af

Pensions  Mr. Speaker, for months the Conservatives have refused to hear any demands from the provinces on expanding the Canada pension plan, saying it would cost us tens of thousands of jobs. The thing is, Finance Canada's own report on the CPP says: In the long run, expanding the CPP w

Canada-Honduras Economic Growth and Prosperity Act  Mr. Speaker, Canadians have a lot to teach other countries. We used to be able to talk about fair democracy. I am not so sure, in light of what is going on in our country, that we have much to brag about these days. However, generally speaking we have been experts in sending peop

Canada-Honduras Economic Growth and Prosperity Act  Mr. Speaker, I agree with the member opposite that trade agreements can often do that. However, in terms of the statistics she raised and the number of dollars involved, I should point out that Honduras, as a trading partner, is 120th out of 186 countries on the human development

Canada-Honduras Economic Growth and Prosperity Act  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak in the strongest possible terms in opposition to Bill C-20, an act that would implement a free trade agreement between Canada and the Republic of Honduras. I will be sharing my time with my colleague for Edmonton—Strathcona. At the second read

Canada Revenue Agency  Mr. Speaker, I am not at all surprised that the minister is dismissing the revelations that the Canada Revenue Agency is compromising Canadians' privacy every year with its data breaches. More than 2,000 Canadians were exposed to identity theft through the minister's mismanagemen

Canada Revenue Agency  Mr. Speaker, that is cold comfort for over 2,000 Canadians. Let us return to reality for a moment. The CRA's Montreal offices have been infiltrated by organized crime. The CRA is failing to collect untold billions of dollars in revenue from tax cheats and others who simply refus

Food and Drugs Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Halifax for her very passionate response to an equally passionate and powerful presentation by the member for Oakville. In the member for Oakville's speech, he referred to the fact that GlaxoSmithKline, as just one example, paid a fine of $3 b

Offshore Health and Safety Act  Mr. Speaker, I agree that Mr. Justice Wells did make those comments before the committee. I think I understand the context in which they were made. Obviously it is critical that we get on with this. I think I said that as powerfully as I was able. I think Mr. Justice Wells recog

Offshore Health and Safety Act  Mr. Speaker, one of the great inventions over the last few years was to use more and more statutory reviews. I can give three examples of which I am aware. There is one in the Access to Information Act, one in the Privacy Act, and one in the Canadian Security Intelligence Act. E

Offshore Health and Safety Act  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to rise today and speak on Bill C-5 at third reading stage. I wish to announce from the outset that I will be sharing my time with my colleague, the member for Drummond. Of course, being from the west coast, I was not as familiar with t

Offshore Health and Safety Act  Mr. Speaker, I understand that there was consideration at committee stage of a five-year review of this legislation to see whether it could be improved in light of experience and in light of the fact that recommendation 29 of Mr. Justice Wells' report was rejected. Why would the

Offshore Health and Safety Act  Mr. Speaker, I appreciated the intervention by my friend from St. John's East. You spoke, I thought very eloquently about your work in committee and the fact that there was no statutory—