Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, there are also many jurisdictions that did not have a referendum. There are also many jurisdictions that had a longer conversation, and he pointed to New Zealand in this regard. There are also jurisdictions that had a much smaller conversation and made that choice.

Committees of the House  I apologize if my speech is interrupting his heckling, but I will continue. Here is the situation. That party never engaged the electorate on this. I was there when the Conservatives did the Fair Elections Act. I use air quotes because it is quite comical. The Conservatives neve

Committees of the House  In the spirit of mutual admiration, Mr. Speaker, I say the same about my experience working with the member and others on electoral reform in the past, including the member for Skeena—Bulkley Valley and the leader of the Green Party as well. We have had many great discussions. T

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the member for Montcalm. This is the first time in a while that I have stood in the House to speak about electoral reform. I used to speak about it quite often in the last Parliament. If it is okay with everyone else, I would like to s

Committees of the House  Being lost in translation is nothing new to me, Mr. Speaker. As I have said, I have a lot of experience being a politician, and it happens on occasion that I have an accent, but I will try to tone it down just a little bit. Perhaps that may have been a problem. Mr. Speaker, I am

Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Implementation Act  Madam Speaker, I have travelled with him on several missions to Europe, and the topic of CETA was always first and foremost for the most part. The investor-state dispute mechanism that the member talked about is of great concern to me as well in many respects, from the beginning

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the fourth report of the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans, entitled “Supplementary Estimates (B) 2016-17: Votes 1b, 5b and 10b under Fisheries and Oceans”.

Salvation Army  Mr. Speaker, it is the last weekend in November. What does that mean? Christmas is upon us. This weekend, it will be sheer madness at all stores for shoppers. However, outside of the madness of the shopping weekend, outside of every store is one of the greatest Christmas tradit

Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, I am not sure if I can totally kill the curiosity, but nevertheless I will give it a shot. The member mentioned something about an agreement that was in place. There never was an agreement. There was not even an offer, not even that. There was an assumption of an ag

Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, I do not like to see anybody take over resources; there is no doubt about it. However, going back to the original comment, if he did not expropriate a mill, why do we own it? We now own it. I do not know how this happened without his expropriating the mill. No deal w

Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, I hope I do not sound too vanilla. I hope to inject a bit of Neapolitan into this debate and provide maybe a bit more. I was there during the ruckus that occurred between the last two governments. I say this, and I will try not to get too partisan about it, but here

Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to say to all my colleagues in the House, congratulations on a great debate thus far. I have been in this House since 2004. I have been involved with the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association. I am now proudly president of the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Ass

Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, I have been here awhile and have been going through CETA for quite some time, from the time I was in opposition in the third party. I always knew that it had great benefits for the agriculture industry, so I want to thank the member for her speech because I did not

Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, the reason why we called it comprehensive in the beginning was the involvement of the provinces as stakeholders in this. So much will be within their jurisdiction that they have been brought on board. I give credit also to the opposition for this. When the Conservati

Canada Pension Plan  Mr. Speaker, it is not better. It is good, but it is not better. I understand what the member is saying about the tools he is putting forward, such as RRSPs and the investments. However, I go back to the point that these are good measures, but I do not think they are better, and