Amendments to Standing Orders  Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague for Scarborough—Agincourt spent quite a bit of time on the history of the 2008 prorogation and his view of the proposed changes in the context of that experience. I wonder if, perhaps, many of us have a hard time getting over events and dwell on cer

Amendments to Standing Orders  Mr. Speaker, my committee, the access to information, privacy, and ethics committee, also has broad co-operation. We get along quite well on that committee. We are proud of the work we have done there. That is not really the concern I have. The concern is with PROC. I do not kno

Amendments to Standing Orders  Mr. Speaker, if this was raised at the doors in her riding, I wonder how it is going to go when she returns to those doors next time. She is going to have some awfully disappointed constituents.

Amendments to Standing Orders  Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure, as always, to rise in this place and add to the debate, this time on Motion No. 18, a motion to amend the Standing Orders of the House of Commons. Here we are. We are on the second day of debate on this motion and we are on the fourth-last schedul

Canada Elections Act  Mr. Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise in this place to speak on behalf of my constituents in Calgary Rocky Ridge. I have followed the debate on the bill throughout the morning. I have listened to various interventions by members of all parties. We have had some great disc

Canada Elections Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for Parry Sound—Muskoka for adding to the debate. We have had some excellent speeches from both of the parties on the opposition benches this morning. We have heard how attendees at cash for access fundraisers have actually boasted publicly

Canada Elections Act  Were any lobbyists or businesses of the government there?

Canada Elections Act  Mr. Speaker, I wonder if the member sees the irony in this whole sorry spectacle on this bill. There is only one party in this House that has conducted itself in a manner necessitating this type of reform. It is not even really reform. As the earlier speakers have pointed out, ca

Calgary Stampede  Mr. Speaker, soon we will rise for the summer, and that means it is almost time for the world-famous Calgary Stampede. For 105 years, people have gathered from all walks of life and from all around the world to take in the greatest outdoor show on earth. Most people know that t

Access to Information  Mr. Speaker, an investigation by the Information Commissioner revealed an employee of Shared Services Canada deleted 398 pages of email documents after receiving an ATIP request for documents containing the words “Liberal Party”. It is a serious offence to destroy documents subje

Access to Information  This, Mr. Speaker, is from the former executive director of the Liberal Party. We now know that the Shared Services Canada employee who deleted 398 pages of email documents following an ATIP is a Liberal EDA president. The Elections Act requires the Attorney General to recuse he

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I am sure we all agree that perhaps one of the most frightening threats that we have in the world is the proliferation of weapons technology, of delivery systems, and of fissile material, particularly to rogue states. Would the member care to comment on what the go

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, while the member did spend a fair bit of her speech responding to the member for Thornhill, I will ask a question that I would like her to think about, or give us her thoughts and comments on, with respect to government policy. We on the Conservative side, and I h

Cannabis Act  Mr. Speaker, the gender of a minister or a minister of state should not matter. If they are a minister with the responsibilities of a minister, they should be paid as such, and if they do not have departments to run and all of the things that attend with those same responsibiliti

Cannabis Act  Mr. Speaker, of course, by that logic they could simply lower everyone else. I reject the premise that everything always has to be about raising salaries. This is again the distraction. The point is not what the department is or what the gender of the holder of the office is. I