Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the hon. member for her speech. She mentioned that consultations were held. It is therefore surprising that the government then introduced a bill that does not have the unanimous support of aboriginal communities. The Native Women's Association

Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act  Mr. Speaker, once again, I am very disappointed to rise to speak to a time allocation motion. This is the 40th time the government has moved a time allocation motion to limit debate on a bill. What is more, this bill does not have the unanimous support of the House, civil societ

Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. I would like to talk about a topic that he did not address himself. Perhaps he had a good reason, since this was not good news for Canadians, and more particularly for Quebeckers. I am talking about the elimination of the tax

Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member for his speech. I am pleased to ask him a question today about an issue that I raised earlier in my speech, namely the tariffs on hundreds, if not thousands, of goods entering Canada. Tariffs are going up. My question is simple: whe

Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member for Winnipeg North for his question, which gives me an opportunity to talk about a point I did not have time to elaborate on. I mentioned them, but I did not go into detail about credit unions, which, as the member said, are found in

Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to answer that question. As chair of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, I have dealt with the CBC many times. Indeed, we are conducting a study right now. It is obvious that the Conservative government is attacking th

Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise today on behalf my riding, Sherbrooke, to speak to Bill C-60. The budget was brought down in March. The budget implementation bill, which is 100 or so pages long this time, followed. We might say this is a small budget implementation bill compar

Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to ask my hon. colleague a question. He gave an excellent speech on CIDA and its merger with the Department of Foreign Affairs. Since he is the member for Ottawa Centre and might know more than I do about public servants, I wanted to ask him what he thi

Questions on the Order Paper  With regard to the letter sent by Service Canada concerning changes to the Employment Insurance program entitled “Changes to Employment Insurance”: (a) how many letters were sent, broken down by (i) province, (ii) date sent; (b) on what date was the decision made to issue this le

Housing  Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives are planning to unilaterally amend the homelessness partnering strategy, the HPS, to change its orientation. A unanimous motion by the National Assembly has denounced this change because it would ultimately result in funding cuts to many important h

Safer Witnesses Act  Mr. Speaker, I have a question for my colleague about something that I remember talking about during previous readings of the bill, which is the fact that these measures could create additional costs for police forces. Does the government plan on helping police forces at all lev

Safer Witnesses Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech on this very important bill. It has already been through several readings and will soon be examined by the Senate. My question is very simple. I would like to know whether he thinks that the NDP and all the other parties worked to

Safer Witnesses Act  Mr. Speaker, it saddens me to speak to a time allocation motion yet again. Earlier, my colleague from Gatineau asked how many of these motions we have had to date. It seems that this the 38th. The minister is interested in debating this particular bill that we are now studying,

Technical Tax Amendments Act, 2012  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech on Bill C-48 which, as she said, is quite long. I would like to know if, as a parliamentarian, she thinks it is a good idea to have a bill that is about 1,000 pages. I would also like to know if she has read it. If she has, that m

Technical Tax Amendments Act, 2012  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his very heartfelt speech. He quickly mentioned that very complex tax laws benefit the wealthiest, who can afford to pay tax experts and accountants. The middle class cannot necessarily afford to pay such experts, and therefore they pay th