Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North raises exactly the point. Consumers, especially in the lower-income groups, have very good uses for that money, much better uses than increasing bank profits. However, there is one thing we tend to miss when we talk about this transitio

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, what we have in front of us today is pay-to-pay fees. However, as I said a bit earlier, we also have transaction fees, mortgage discharge fees, all kinds of fees. The point of the motion is that there needs to be a mandatory financial code of conduct to protect consu

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to rise today to speak on the opposition motion. I will be sharing my time with the member for Newton—North Delta. I think the motion before the House is very important for most ordinary Canadians. It calls on the government to ban all pay-to-pay p

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, let us be clear. The same government that is forcing successful law enforcement programs like Project Condor to shut down, and the same government that is taking resources away from financial and organized crime investigations, is refusing to protect Canadians' perso

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, it turns out the Conservatives have also been hiding the facts when it comes to security issues. The minister has repeatedly insisted that the Security Intelligence Review Committee has a mandate to fully oversee CSIS, but it turns out this is not the case. Yesterd

Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act  Mr. Speaker, the hon. member for Dauphin—Swan River—Marquette will have to pardon me if I actually laugh at his question. It is absurd. What we have said, and he quoted our leader saying something that I have just said, is that we think we should be able to track guns. What does

Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act  Mr. Speaker, I will leave checking the irony to the hon. member. I want to go back to the previous question from the member for Dauphin—Swan River—Marquette. He did mention his offence at the use of the term gun lobby. I said it clearly in my speech, and I have said it many time

Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act  Mr. Speaker, I am a little puzzled by the member's question because he knows good and well. We have said it repeatedly here. When we become the government after the next election we have no intention of bringing back the gun registry. The registry is dead. The data has been destr

Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act  Mr. Speaker, this is a government that likes to talk tough on crime and point to all its legislation of increased mandatory minimums and all the deterrents that are supposed to happen, even though we all know that there is absolutely no evidence that these tougher penalties have

Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act  Mr. Speaker, I think it applies most directly to the transportation of weapons. What we are talking about here is that when the police stop someone, under Bill C-42 that person would not have to have an authorization to transport the weapon in the car, but they could automaticall

Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak against Bill C-42, the government's so-called common sense firearms licensing act, at third reading. After introducing the bill in October and letting it languish on the order paper, in April the government suddenly found it urgent to press ahe

Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his speech, but it mystifies me why Conservatives continue to stand and say that the NDP will bring back the gun registry, when we very clearly said we will not. It is gone. The data is destroyed, and it is not coming back. He cited a quo

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, if we look at that page, we find that four years from now, the RCMP would still be below where it was in 2012. The reality is that the Conservatives are all talk when it comes to public safety. They are hoping Canadians will not notice that the programs and resource

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, Conservative cuts are forcing the RCMP to make impossible choices when it comes to protecting public safety. Faced with the skyrocketing resource demands of counterterrorism, the RCMP is dismantling Project Condor, its very successful program for finding offenders un

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, internal RCMP documents obtained under access to information show that the RCMP timed the release of the video made by the Ottawa shooter on October 22 so that it would not overshadow public hearings on Bill C-51. A Friday release was recommended because “...attent