Airport Security  Mr. Speaker, the RCMP as the police of jurisdiction will continue a police presence at the Kelowna and Victoria airports with routine patrols and in response to 911 emergency calls for service. I assure the member that the RCMP is well equipped, well trained and well positioned t

Airport Security  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the hon. member for Saanich—Gulf Islands for providing me with the opportunity to respond to some of her concerns. Like other police services across Canada, the RCMP in British Columbia provides on-site policing at airports. Airport security in

Labour  Mr. Speaker, when there is a negotiation that benefits crown corporations, the union bosses sit on one side of the table, make demands, and take. We would expect that on the other side of the table, taxpayers, who have to pay the bills, would be represented. The NDP and the Lib

Infrastructure  Mr. Speaker, when the Liberal Party was in office, the average piece of infrastructure in this country had reached a record age of 17 years. It was older and more decrepit than ever. Under us, that has come down to 14 years, which means it is newer than it has been in three decad

Oil and Gas Industry  Mr. Speaker, half a million people work in Canada's energy sector. Most are blue-collar folk, the backbone of our middle class. They have quietly reduced greenhouse gases by 26% per barrel since 1990. Al Gore recently insulted these people, when he accused them of using our atmo

Transportation  Mr. Speaker, it is interesting that the hon. member used the example of France, which has the same regulations as the ones we just adopted, as does the United States. The International Civil Aviation Organization uses the same ratio that we just adopted. Planes entering Canadian

Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, in actual fact, it is members of the NDP who want to take our country back to the Middle Ages. They are the ones who want to take away the rights that Canadians and all members of parliamentary democracies fought for so that the people would have the right to decide

Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, our agenda has been out in the open since we have been in government, since 2006, and the Canadian people keep electing us with increasing mandates. I note that, correspondingly, the party in the corner has been consistently reduced by the Canadian people as our and

Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, let us speak of kings and queens and crowns. At the culmination of the Glorious Revolution in 1689, the British Parliament allowed William III and Mary II to ascend to the throne, but there was a catch: they would need to accept the convention of the right and the

Unions  Mr. Speaker, every year hard-working unionized employees are forced to pay billions of dollars in union dues without any transparency in how that money is spent. Taxpayers are forced to accept that these billions go tax-free. Taxpayers and workers deserve accountability and trans

Boston Marathon Bombings  Mr. Speaker, yesterday, a small army of Liberal pseudo-intellectuals had a collective spasm after I said that terrorists are the cause of terrorism. The Liberal leader had touched off the debate when he said that the Boston bombings happened because someone “feels completely excl

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, the hon. member should read the entire article. He sourced an article in the newspaper, of course, for his allegation and if he had read down, he would have found the following quote: The provincial government, it maintains, does not know of any hold up on approva

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, I resent very much that terrible verbal assault against me. Surely, we can raise the debate in this House of Commons. We have one member over there who was forced to apologize, but only did it on Facebook, for denigrating our veterans. Another member over there deni

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise today to share with the House a petition from constituents who call for the prompt passage of the faster removal of foreign criminals act. The signatories to the petition would like to see the passage of the faster removal of foreign criminal

Champlain Bridge  Mr. Speaker, each province has an envelope for infrastructure. The provincial governments and the municipalities must set their priorities with that federal envelope in mind. If the Government of Quebec chooses to give priority to light rail transit on the new bridge spanning t