Justice  Mr. Speaker, I am delighted that Mr. Arar received his well-deserved resounding exoneration. Mr. Arar and his family were victims of severe systemic flaws. The Prime Minister has said that he will not apologize to Mr. Arar but rather leave it to the courts. However, when Mr. Ara

Maher Arar  Mr. Speaker, this week the government has been dodging questions about the case of Maher Arar. Parliament has unanimously passed a motion that calls for an apology and the whole country regrets what happened. Now that the Prime Minister, the Minister of Public Safety and the mem

Government Programs  Mr. Speaker, Canadians have greater respect and confidence in our judicial branch than that republican minority government. Through the court challenges program, Canadians have been able to enhance minority rights and improve our laws. However, the Prime Minister continues to ex

Maher Arar  Mr. Speaker, as if Mr. Arar and his family needed any more pain and misinformation from the Conservatives, yesterday the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister falsely claimed that the Liberals took actions “which ended up putting Maher Arar in a Syrian jail”. It is no wo

Maher Arar  Mr. Speaker, I will say what Canadians have not forgotten. When Mr. Arar was in detention, the Minister of Public Safety called for an inquiry to determine why the Liberals were defending him. The member for Calgary—Nose Hill convicted Mr. Arar as having links to al-Qaeda. The Pa

Canada-U.S. Relations  Mr. Speaker, it is mid-term election time in the United States and a republic television attack ad has outraged many Canadians. The ad says in part, “Let Canada take care of North Korea, they're not busy”. Is this what Canadians should be expecting as the outcome of cozying up to

Income Trusts  Mr. Speaker, Canadians have learned the hard way what it means to put their trust in the minority Conservative government's word. Investors in income trusts have lost billions of dollars of their hard-earned money, which they planned on using in their retirement years. For the

Foreign Affairs  Mr. Speaker, while it appears that the Prime Minister's biggest international preoccupation is to avoid questions about his neglect of Kyoto, dozens of innocent civilians are dying on a daily basis in various parts of the world and he is not even flinching. Women and children ar

Child Care  Mr. Speaker, today Canada marks National Child Day. It is an opportunity to assess how we are meeting the needs of this and future generations of young Canadians. Sadly, the minority Conservative government is moving backward by cancelling our investment in 600,000 new child car

Government Policies  Mr. Speaker, the minority Conservative government backtracked on a commitment to protect the young child supplement portion of the Canada child tax benefit and, get this, it also cancelled the summer youth program. The Conservatives cancelled Canada's youth international intern

Early Learning and Child Care Act  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to extend my support for Bill C-303, the early learning and child care act. The bill is based on the Liberal child care plan and the side agreements between the previous Liberal government and 10 provinces. Those agreements were all cancelled by the cur

Foreign Affairs  Mr. Speaker, since coming to office 10 months ago, the Conservative government has done nothing but sabotage the long-standing healthy relationship Canada has had with China. This deteriorating situation has become an international embarrassment--

Foreign Affairs  Mr. Speaker, I am glad they are listening. This deteriorating situation has become an international embarrassment. Canadian citizens and businesses have expressed concern about how the government has approached its relationship with our fastest growing trading partner and they s

Foreign Affairs  Mr. Speaker, I hope the parliamentary secretary will heed the call of Senator Carney, a Conservative senator. Canadians do expect the government to promote human rights here in Canada and abroad, but the government's approach of embarrassing the Chinese is ineffective. Everyone

Canada's Clean Air Act  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to speak to the proposed clean air act, which is supposed to be the Conservative government's centrepiece in tackling the climate change challenge that our country and our globe face. I am glad to have the opportunity to comment on this issue because Can