Petitions  Mr. Speaker, today I have the pleasure of presenting a petition, which comes from right across my riding of Skeena—Bulkley Valley, that is opposed to the open net caged salmon farming industry. The petitioners are calling upon the government to seek conditions in legislation tha

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, I would like to present some cold, hard numbers to the minister. The number of litres spilled from the Terra Nova rig last week was 165,000. The size of the oil slick, which has been caused by that spill, is nine kilometres long by one kilometre wide. The number of s

Credit Cards  Mr. Chair, I wonder if we could move away from the identity theft issue and the notion of the patriot act and step back to personal management. My hon. colleague raised the issue earlier about young people having access to credit cards and our colleague from another party descri

Parliament of Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, the hon. House leader has some curious responses to some curious questions from the Bloc in defending the Prime Minister's salary. This is a new day in the House of Commons. I was initially filled with some amount of confidence in the House leader's description of t

Parliament of Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the hon. member's comments on how this House has been able to work effectively together and in some cases very much so; however, DFO has not been responsive to the travesty on our west coast with respect to salmon stocks. I wonder if he could comment on

Parliament of Canada Act  Madam Speaker, I aspire to one day have such a capability of presenting ideas and notions in the House as the hon. member now has. I am going to speak in English so my question is really clear. The member made a comment about the Prime Minister acting as ship without a rudder.

Supply  Mr. Speaker, clearly this debate raises the ires and passions in the House like few others. In my riding of Skeena--Bulkley Valley, this is the most despised federal agency we have, the one that has the least amount of credibility on the ground and the one that has managed its fi

Supply  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to be a part of this debate. The encouraging presence of many members in the House is admirable and shows the passion that arises from this important debate. I will be sharing my time with the hon. member for Nanaimo—Cowichan. It is most remarkable to

Supply  Mr. Speaker, we are at the point now where I receive e-mails and letters from people from inside the department asking that they be subpoenaed and asking if they can be put under oath. The hon. member is correct when he says that it is a career limiting move to actually go ahead

Supply  Mr. Speaker, that is an excellent point. Some reservations have been expressed by certain members in the House that somehow this judicial inquiry would impede upon the rights and privileges of certain provinces, but that is not our belief. Certainly we are seeing through the Gome

First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act  Mr. Speaker, I wish to thank the hon. member from Hamilton for sharing his time on this very important piece of legislation that we do support. It took the government a couple of kicks at the can to get it right. Now that it has it right, we are able to see this thing through and

First Nations, Métis and Inuit War Veterans  Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the member across the floor for his diligence in promoting this issue. I have a large first nations population in my community, and to be perfectly frank, I was not necessarily aware of this issue and how important it was to the first nations community

Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague across the floor for his excellent speech and for his ability to concisely put together a number of things that have come together under Bill C-15. Both the amendment and the bill say a great deal to me in terms of how this new gov

Excise Tax Act  It is ridiculous.

Question No. 55  With regard to the cleanup of the Sydney Tar Ponds, what technologies has Environment Canada examined and which of these, if any, have they approved?