Youth  Mr. Speaker, the President of the Treasury Board offended anti-agism provisions in the Charter of Rights when he hurled insults at young people's participation in the democratic process in committee last week. This is no way to encourage young people to participate more fully in

Budget Implementation Act, 2004, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, I would like to broaden the overall theme that the hon. member for Medicine Hat has constructed for us. He pointed out the essential difference between this side of the House and that side of the House. On this side, we believe in economic freedom, that it is indivi

Question No. 57  With regard to the potential move of National Defence Headquarters: ( a ) is the government considering moving the site of National Defence Headquarters from its present location and, if so, what locations are currently under consideration; ( b ) has the government entered into n

Question No. 56  With regard to the potential move of National Defence Headquarters: ( a ) is the government considering moving the site of National Defence Headquarters from its present location and, if so, what locations are currently under consideration; ( b ) has the government entered into n

Finance  Mr. Speaker, I confess I am new here and I do not know all the rules, but I always thought it was against the rules to bring pets into the House of Commons. I have just noted that in fact there is a big elephant in the room, an enormous elephant that we are not focusing in this d

Finance  Mr. Speaker, I would like to discuss this dinosaur analogy. This comes from a party that would force middle class families, whether they support the program or not, to pay higher taxes and face new strains on their own financial capacity to pay for a new government bureaucracy.

Finance  Mr. Speaker, the member is absolutely correct in pointing out that the majority of parents who actually use the Quebec system are in the upper income level. Oftentimes it is upper income professionals with two incomes per family who use the day care system. We are taking money fr

Transportation Safety Board  Mr. Speaker, Jim Walsh lost his cabinet post in Newfoundland after taking a paper bag of $4,500 from a company seeking a $2 million government contract. Now he has shattered ethics codes on partisanship when he attended a Liberal fundraising bash. What is Walsh's punishment? He

Question No. 57  With regard to the potential move of National Defence Headquarters: ( a ) has the government completed a business plan for the purchase or lease of the JDS Uniphase campus in South Nepean; ( b ) if so, for which departments; and ( c ) what are the specifics of this plan?

Tsunami Relief  Mr. Speaker, early this month I had occasion to meet with about 55 Tamil Canadians in my home community of Barrhaven and committed to take their concerns to the highest democratic chamber in the land: this House. They told me they support traditional marriage, they want the gover

Sponsorship Program  Mr. Speaker, this is the third such delay. The Treasury Board President was supposed to have these guidelines before the government operations committee a long time ago. Originally, the guidelines were meant to be completed by September 30. Then it was promised for Christmas. Now

Questions on the Order Paper  Mr. Speaker, I am somewhat surprised that the hon. member, before getting into the substance of his remarks, did not address the very offensive remarks made by the minister earlier today when he compared the decision of parents to keep one parent in the home to the luxury of havi

Questions on the Order Paper  Mr. Speaker, the very offensive remarks were made by the minister when he compared the decision of parents to keep one parent in the home with the children to the luxury of having ice cream. The Vanier Institute said that 90% of parents would make that choice if they could; they

Questions on the Order Paper  Madam Speaker, I want to discuss with the hon. member the very offensive remarks that were made by the minister earlier today when he compared the sacrifice of a parent who decides to stay at home with his or her children to the luxury of tasting ice cream. For the 47% of parent

Questions on the Order Paper  We trust parents.