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Committees of the House Mr. Speaker, I will avoid the questions of process and privilege that are going on and speak to the member's obvious commitment and passion for CBC Radio-Canada, its performance in this country and the role that it plays. However, I have a fundamental question. As someone who r
June 13th, 2006House debate
Rural Communities Mr. Speaker, in the process of the renewal of northwestern British Columbia, we are learning important lessons on how diverse groups can come together with common interests to achieve incredible things. The good news is we are turning a corner in northwestern British Columbia.
June 12th, 2006House debate
Criminal Code Mr. Speaker, I would like to give the member for Etobicoke North a moment to perhaps correct a comment he made in one of his speeches. It has been recently noted that the Liberal Party of Canada has started to look more like the Liberal Party of Toronto. We saw it no more than in
June 6th, 2006House debate
The Environment For two minutes, Mr. Speaker, what cheap pandering to the crowds. This weekend, at a conference representing over 1,300 cities and communities from across Canada, the Minister of the Environment may have made her best speech yet by not showing up at all. It was bad enough that s
June 5th, 2006House debate
The Environment Mr. Speaker, the minister might be a little confused about how question period actually works. I spent three days at the Bonn conference and for three days I was embarrassed by the position taken by Canada. It was a defeatist attitude and negated all our international commitmen
June 5th, 2006House debate
Business of Supply I am sure my colleague from Sault Ste. Marie would also like to know your thoughts on this, Mr. Speaker, as I know you have spent some time on this file. The question is around what the market will actually bear. The northern Ontario market of which my colleague speaks with resp
June 1st, 2006House debate
Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, this has been in our party's platform for a number of years now. We are very happy that the Conservatives are borrowing some of those ideas and working with industry, but they got the number wrong. We said 10%. The actual benefit at the pump has been shown by the go
June 1st, 2006House debate
Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to have this opportunity to speak to my Bloc colleague's motion. This is one of those issues that is a true intersection of government and business. It speaks directly to the interests of many Canadians in their day to day lives. Many times in the House
June 1st, 2006House debate
Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, I enjoyed the discourse the hon. member has brought to this debate. The question I have is on a more intuitive level. Many Canadians, as they arrive at the pump every day for what has become almost a basic or essential necessity, whether it be in their work lives or
June 1st, 2006House debate
House debate Mr. Speaker, I was caught off guard by the end of that speech. All I had asked for in my question was the date when Canadians could expect a plan and when the House would begin to debate all the grandiose terms that the parliamentary secretary has put forward. Now the minister
May 31st, 2006House debate
House debate Mr. Speaker, it is very fortuitous to join the debate at this particular moment. The very topic we need to discuss in this next moment is around the environment and the somewhat confusing and often contradictory messages we have been from the new government. Out of the intensit
May 31st, 2006House debate
Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, I listened with great interest to the member's speech. He talked about what the fabric of a community is and the role that arts and culture plays in a community. My riding in northwest British Columbia relies heavily on the CBC for its information from outside. The
May 30th, 2006House debate
The Environment Mr. Speaker, in Tuesday night's vote, this House directed the Conservative government to live up to Canada's climate change commitments. Yesterday the Prime Minister made it clear he has no intention of listening to the will of Parliament. This arrogance comes on the heels of t
May 18th, 2006House debate
Budget Implementation Act, 2006 Mr. Speaker, what an excellent choice in this wall of conservatism that we have to jump over in order to enter this debate and talk about the things that people actually care about. For many years the Conservatives rallied in the House and said that money must not simply be assi
May 18th, 2006House debate
Phthalate Control Act moved for leave to introduce Bill C-307, An Act to prohibit the use of benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP), dibutyl phthalate (DBP) and di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) in certain products and to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999. Mr. Speaker, this bill seeks to ban
May 17th, 2006House debate