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Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, I believe Canadians who have listened to the debate today already understand that the Conservatives and Liberals do not want Canadians to be consulted. They are telling Canadians to let them run their little shell game here, let them take taxpayer resources so they c
March 3rd, 2011House debate
Peter JulianNDP
Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise and start off by paying tribute to the member for Hamilton Centre who has brought this motion forward in the House of Commons today. As the NDP critic for democratic reform, he has brought the views of Canadians right to the front and centre of t
March 3rd, 2011House debate
Peter JulianNDP
STRENGTHENING AVIATION SECURITY ACT Mr. Speaker, I would like to start by addressing what the parliamentary secretary said just a few moments ago in the House. All of us in the House were appalled by the events of September 11, 2001, 10 years ago, by the loss of life. The reality is that the violent individuals
February 18th, 2011House debate
Peter JulianNDP
STRENGTHENING AVIATION SECURITY ACT Mr. Speaker, I enjoyed very much the speech from the member for Halifax. The parliamentary secretary should know better than to raise what was a patent hypocrisy on this issue. First, the reality is that other countries, such as the European Union, negotiated agreements that go
February 18th, 2011House debate
Peter JulianNDP
International Trade Mr. Speaker, just like everything else, the government now has a major problem with its botched trade agreement between Canada and the European Union. Last week, we learned that this agreement will result in increased drug prices. Today, we learned that Canada's automobile indus
February 18th, 2011House debate
Peter JulianNDP
International Trade Mr. Speaker, that is not what the auto sector is saying. We have seen what the Conservatives can do. They badly botched negotiations on softwood lumber, costing our softwood communities $1.2 billion and counting, and 50,000 jobs. Our companies are still being denied access to th
February 18th, 2011House debate
Peter JulianNDP
Strengthening Aviation Security Act Mr. Speaker, as members know, there were headlines in the media today about hackers from China who were attempting to access the House of Commons' computers. Of course, that is a matter of some real concern, because it would expose confidential information. If we set aside that
February 18th, 2011House debate
Peter JulianNDP
Charitable Donations Mr. Speaker, I am happy to speak to Motion 559, which directs the finance committee to undertake a study of the current tax incentives for charitable donations with a view to increase giving. A number of stipulations are contained within the motion itself. On the surface, the id
February 17th, 2011House debate
Peter JulianNDP
International Trade Mr. Speaker, the negotiations on the agreement with Europe are going on behind closed doors. We already know that the Conservatives like to sell off Canadian interests at bargain-basement prices, and we are seeing the results. Softwood lumber? Botched. The agreement with Panama,
February 10th, 2011House debate
Peter JulianNDP
International Trade Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives said that before. The government has a reputation for not doing its homework. For softwood lumber, that cost Canadian $1.2 billion and 50,000 lost jobs and counting. The demands of the E.U. multinationals are clear: changes to our laws to make it
February 10th, 2011House debate
Peter JulianNDP
Seeds Regulation Act Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise to speak on Bill C-474. I would like to start off by paying tribute to the member for British Columbia Southern Interior. He has brought forward this bill and, with his diligence and determination, has pushed Parliament to consider a bill that
February 8th, 2011House debate
Peter JulianNDP
Canada-Panama Free Trade Act Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. As the hon. member knows, we have denounced what violence has come from FARC. What we are talking about is the Colombian government.
February 3rd, 2011House debate
Peter JulianNDP
Canada-Panama Free Trade Act Mr. Speaker, there are so many questions I could ask the hon. member. I am glad to see him back in the House. The same comments the Liberals were making about NAFTA and how NAFTA was going to lift Mexico out of the difficult economic problems it was having actually led to the op
February 3rd, 2011House debate
Peter JulianNDP
Canada-Panama Free Trade Act Madam Speaker, what everyone can assume is that the position of the Liberal Party is not to worry about the money laundering of dirty drug money because somehow this trade agreement will magically wave it all away. As everyone will recall, that was the Liberal position on the Co
February 3rd, 2011House debate
Peter JulianNDP
Canada-Panama Free Trade Act Madam Speaker, the bill should be called “Drug traffickers: You can keep the proceeds of crime act”, because that is exactly what the current government is presenting. “Send the proceeds of crime to Panama” is what the government is saying. I would like to ask the parliamentary
February 3rd, 2011House debate
Peter JulianNDP