Agriculture  Mr. Speaker, I realize that the concerns of Canadian farmers are rarely top of mind for the Liberals but given that there is a byelection underway in the largely agriculture riding of Perth--Middlesex perhaps they will take them seriously today. The government and its Pest Manag

Question No. 158  With regard to the web application AROSuite, designed by and for aboriginal groups under the aboriginal human resource development agreement to manage grants and contributions relating to training contracts: ( a ) when will AROSuite be deployed to aboriginal organizations; and (

Tourist Industry  Mr. Speaker, anti-American comments by Liberal MPs are hurting the Canadian tourist industry. The president of the Association of Canadian Travel Agencies says that he has received calls from agents informing him that the unrelenting anti-Americanism of the Liberals has affected

Tourist Industry  Mr. Speaker, we are astounded to hear that Canada is supposed to respond to the Americans by remaining silent, by not speaking out and by not opposing what our government has to say. I have received a letter from an American from Dayton, Ohio, who has written the following: I k

Perth—Middlesex  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has finally called the Perth—Middlesex byelection, six months after John Richardson stepped down as the member of Parliament and four days before the legal deadline. In the meantime, there have been two Liberal nomination meetings, two Liberal can

Bilingualism  Mr. Speaker, the President of the Treasury Board is saying that she does not know how many people meet and do not meet the language requirements. She has had lots of time to prepare for this. She is saying that she does not know what measures they will take to deal with people w

Bilingualism  Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Commissioner of Official Languages proposed ending the 20 year policy under which unilingual Canadians could become bilingual on the job for bilingual posts. Ending this policy would amount to adopting a policy of systemic discrimination against the 24

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I presented a dissenting report to this report. I agree with the general thrust of the report and I appreciate the cooperation of all the committee members in the preparation of the report. However, there was one element that I thought should have been included in th

Supply  Madam Speaker, in response to my hon. colleague's question, I would simply observe that at this point anything that has the effect of stopping money from going to the firearms registry, far from costing the government money, would actually save a great deal of money. Quite frankl

Supply  Madam Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the hon. member for Kootenay—Boundary—Okanagan. In starting my comments I will just continue some of the discussion that has been going on here with regard to costs. The Liberal member opposite has just referred to the cost overrun

Petitions  Madam Speaker, last weekend I was presented with a petition containing the signatures of 10,000 residents of eastern Ontario on the subject of the long gun registry. It had been presented to Ontario's minister of public security, Bob Runciman, but because it was a federal matter

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I have a petition to present signed by a number of constituents in my riding. The petition refers to the working conditions and the pay of rural route mail couriers in Canada who, if their pay is measured on an hourly basis, often earn less than the minimum wage and

Canada Health Act  Mr. Speaker, I am rising to speak to Bill C-202. I would like to begin by making a brief mention of my colleague, the hon. member for Ottawa—Vanier, the man behind this bill. He is a man of good will and great intelligence, a real spokesperson, who has distinguished himself in h

Question No. 166  With regard to the language of menus and other services to the public at restaurants located at premises that are rented from the National Capital Commission in the ByWard Market and other locations: ( a ) since what date have standard leases required that restaurateurs and other

Official Languages  Mr. Speaker, if someone sat down and tried to design as an experiment the most exclusionary system of public service hiring and promotion imaginable, it might look something like this. First, select some skill that most Canadians do not have and declare it essential for many job