Technical Tax Amendments Act, 2012  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for his question, but I will not comment on who is or is not present in the House, since we are not allowed to do so. However, I will respond to his very important question about corporate taxes. Our corporate taxes are among the lowest in the wor

Technical Tax Amendments Act, 2012  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the hon. member for his question. I hope that in the future there will be a plan and that the government will be more alert and focused on making significant technical changes to the tax system on a regular basis. As the hon. member stated, 4

Technical Tax Amendments Act, 2012  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member for Chambly—Borduas for agreeing to share his time with me. I am very grateful. I am pleased to rise today to speak to Bill C-48, which is a step any government would need to take in order to update our Income Tax Act. It is a relati

Technical Tax Amendments Act, 2012  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. He spent a few minutes briefly going over the economic consequences of having a very complex tax system. Adding measures that are hard even for experts to understand and making frequent changes to the system can make it even more

Technical Tax Amendments Act, 2012  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my hon. colleague for her contribution to this debate and ask her a very simple question. As members of Parliament, should we not be focusing on promoting a more regular process for this kind of modernization of the income tax laws? Indeed, per

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, on December 4, 2002, the current Prime Minister, who was the Leader of the Opposition at the time, asked the Liberal government a question about the loss of $1 billion, which he called a boondoggle. It was clearly a scandal. The Prime Minister, who was the opposition

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my hon. colleague on his speech. We can now safely say without a doubt that the Conservatives are just as bad as the Liberals when it comes to managing public finances. We all remember the Liberal scandals in the past. Now the Conservative scandals ar

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the sixth report of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics. In accordance with its order of reference of Monday, February 25, 2013, the committee has considered votes 40 and 45 un

Buffet of Nations  Mr. Speaker, on May 4, the Service d'aide aux Néo-Canadiens, an organization that is well known in Sherbrooke, held its 42nd annual Buffet of Nations. Every year, hundreds of newcomers to Canada decide to settle in Sherbrooke either to work or to go to school, and they are an i

New Democratic Party of Canada  Mr. Speaker, two years ago today, the now famous orange crush that left its mark on Canadian political history swept across the country. In its wake, a record number of my NDP colleagues arrived in Ottawa to finally form an opposition and provide an alternative to Conservative

Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her very interesting speech, in which she placed a lot of emphasis on transport. I would also like to thank her for her work on this file. Could she talk about the new infrastructure program, which sounds to me like a bogus announcement? If

Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my hon. colleague on her speech. There are a number of issues that need to be discussed regarding this bill. My colleague already addressed several of them. However, I also wanted to hear her comments on another topic, one that she has not yet addres

Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, it is with sadness that I rise today to ask my colleague a question. As we know, this government has already broken the record for the most time allocation motions in Canadian history. Today again it has introduced a motion to cut the debate short. On Monday, for t

Strengthening Military Justice in the Defence of Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North seems to be obsessed with the NDP. He spent about 10 out of 20 minutes talking about us. Is it because he won by 45 votes over the NDP in Winnipeg North that he is so obsessed with us and what we are doing? I come back to the question t

Strengthening Military Justice in the Defence of Canada Act  Mr. Speaker, I am even more pleased to have shared my time with the member for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine because of her wonderful speech. Still, I will ask her a question about a topic that she may not have had time to fully address. It has to do with protecting the rights of