POOLED REGISTERED PENSION PLANS ACT  Madam Speaker, just last week I held a town hall in my riding on the subject of pensions and old age security. When the various options facing the country with respect to pension reform were presented, a lot of people in the room nodded their heads when one person said that this

Points of Order  Mr. Speaker, I raised a question in question period and I am not sure there was an answer. If there was, it certainly was unintelligible here. My question was whether the government had decided if it would appeal the ruling on veterans pensions. I did not hear—

Veterans Affairs  Mr. Speaker, I would hope that by now we could assume that the minister has finally completed his homework and is up to speed on the 31-page Federal Court decision on veterans pensions. With only a few days before the Conservatives must decide whether to appeal this very clear

Veterans Affairs  Mr. Speaker, 13 days remain until the government must decide whether to appeal the decision of the Federal Court ordering it to cease clawing back veterans' pensions from people like Dennis Manuge. It has been almost three weeks and we still have no indication of what the gover

Questions on the Order Paper  With regard to Canadian Forces aircraft procurement, will any pilot training for the proposed F-35 Joint Strike Fighters take place in Canada, and, if so, at which Canadian Forces base or other location will it occur?

Questions on the Order Paper  With regard to Canadians discovered to have secret bank accounts in Liechtenstein: (a) since the government received the names of 106 Canadians with accounts in Liechtenstein, how many of the 106 have made an application under the Voluntary Disclosure Program (VDP) and how many o

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, the minister of national defensiveness is now in his third week of reading a 31 page federal court ruling on veterans' pensions. The Conservative House leader, by contrast, has allocated a mere seven sitting days for a 425 page budget bill, a bill which amends over 7

Questions on the Order Paper  With regard to information supplied by the government of France to the government of Canada regarding secret bank accounts and possible tax evasion in Switzerland as of March 23, 2012: (a) since the government received the names of 1800 Canadians with bank accounts in Switzerland

Veterans Affairs  Mr. Speaker, I wonder if the House could get an update from the Minister of National Defence as to how he is getting along with reading the Federal Court judgment that ordered the Conservatives to stop clawing back veterans' pensions. When I first asked the minister about that o

National Nursing Week  Mr. Speaker, this is National Nursing Week and this year's theme is “Nursing - The Health of Our Nation”. We have over 266,000 registered nurses in Canada, constituting the largest group of health care professionals in Canada. Nurses work on the front line of our health care sys

Jobs, Growth and Long-Term Prosperity Act  Mr. Speaker, the three biggest industries in Prince Edward Island are tourism, agriculture and the fisheries. It has a population of 140,000 and gets one million visitors a year. While civil service jobs are extremely important to our economy twelve months of the year, the engi

Jobs, Growth and Long-Term Prosperity Act  Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to speak to the budget implementation act. I am going to focus my remarks on three main areas. I am the member of Parliament for Charlottetown. Prince Edward Island is still a province, but it has been left out of this budget. I am going to focus

Old Age Security  Madam Speaker, I am happy to close the debate today on my motion to protect old age security. I first want to thank my colleagues from Halifax West and Cape Breton—Canso for their speeches today, and also my NDP colleagues from Churchill and Windsor—Tecumseh. I know they care ab

Old Age Security  Madam Speaker, no.

National Defence  Mr. Speaker, yesterday I attended the Military Police Complaints Commission hearings and met Sheila Fynes, the mother of a deceased soldier. I saw first-hand the impact his suicide is having on her. Compounding this enormous sadness was a 14-month delay in releasing the suicide n