Agriculture  Mr. Speaker, in recent years Canadian farmers have been plagued by floods, drought, grasshoppers, the U.S. congress, and a Liberal government that just does not care. Now the minister, with his new APF program, is expecting farmers to provide an initial deposit of $3 billion to

Trade  Mr. Speaker, $1.9 billion a day in commercial trade with the United States will soon be subject to a requirement for 24 hours advance notice before crossing the border. This is going to harm time dependent industries such as the auto industry, which is the heart of my province's

Vimy Ridge Day Act  Mr. Speaker, I am not sure what the parliamentary secretary means by bilingual guidance. The fact is that the tickets being issued by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the Quebec part of the national capital region are still being issued in one language only. They are being is

Vimy Ridge Day Act  Mr. Speaker, it has been four long months since I first rose in the House last October to draw attention to the fact that the RCMP was engaged in the blatantly illegal practice of issuing unilingual, French only parking tickets within the boundaries of the national capital region

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, Quebec's political forces have expressed their opposition to the federal budget. The PQ's minister of finance, the leader of the ADQ and even the finance critic of Quebec's Liberal Party all expressed their total disapproval of the federal government's interference i

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, if the minister respected the provinces, he would give them the trust they deserve. The Liberals' funding promises are packaged in a way that could be taken back in the next budget, or after the next election. Why does the minister refuse to allocate funds in the f

Referendum Act  Mr. Speaker, it is always good to start the day with a laugh. I enjoyed that last element of humour when the parliamentary secretary suggested that the Liberal Party cared about cross-partisan approaches after having launched a very partisan attack upon the excellent proposals of

Question No. 67  For the fiscal years 1993/94, 1994/95, 1995/96, 1996/97, 1997/98, 1998/99, 1999/2000 and 2000/2001, from all departments and agencies of the government, including crown corporations and quasi/non-governmental agencies funded by the government, and not including research and stude

Question No. 56  As part of the Implementation plan for the Kyoto Protocol as called for in the motion adopted by the House on October 24, 2002, is the government willing to move ahead with Kyoto ratification without the support of the provinces?

Question No. 57  As part of the Implementation plan for the Kyoto Protocol as called for in the motion adopted by the House on October 24, 2002, is the government guaranteeing infringing upon provincial jurisdiction in meeting Kyoto targets?

Health  Mr. Speaker, the position of the Prime Minister over the past nine years has been to pay less and less into health care and demand 100% of control. At 14% of funding for health care in the country, the government wants to set all the rules. That is the wrong approach. The Canadi

Health  Mr. Speaker, from the moment this government came into office, cooperation with the provinces on health care reform went the way of federal contributions to health care, that is, it diminished. The Kirby and Romanow reports were supposed to signal a new cooperative approach; ins

Modernization of Parliament  Mr. Speaker, this week Liberal members on the procedure and House affairs committee took a giant step backward when it came to democratizing Parliament. The Liberals, in particular their wannabe prime minister, talk a fine line when it comes to focus tested phrases like democrat

Canada Pension Plan  I can point out to the members who are making jokes that members of this House have a special pension plan that is set up to provide more generous benefits than those provided through the Canada pension plan. That of course is a consequence of the fact that we get to choose our o

Canada Pension Plan  moved That Bill C-3, in Clause 15, be amended by replacing lines 41 to 46 on page 9 and lines 1 to 5 on page 10 with the following: “15. Section 37 of the Act is repealed.” Mr. Speaker, I am here to discuss a very important amendment to Bill C-3, which is an act to amend the C