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Questions Passed as Orders for Returns With regard to government advertising: (a) which departments or agencies were engaged in any television advertisement by a department or agency of the government during the television broadcast of any Super Bowl game from Super Bowl XL (2006) through Super Bowl XLVI (2012) inclus
March 26th, 2012House debate
Sean CaseyLiberal
Old Age Security Mr. Speaker, there has been absolutely no indication that there has been consultation with the provinces or with the business community with respect to this proposed change. This appeared to be some sort of a pronouncement from an alpine perch. It will, undoubtedly, result in eit
March 26th, 2012House debate
Sean CaseyLiberal
Old Age Security Mr. Speaker, there are many seniors in the country who are dependent on provincial welfare payments for their basic needs. However, when they hit age 65, the federal system is more generous than many of the provincial systems with respect to old age security and guaranteed income
March 26th, 2012House debate
Sean CaseyLiberal
Old Age Security moved: Motion No. 307 That, in the opinion of the House, the government should: (a) recognize the contributions that the baby boom generation has made in building Canada; (b) affirm its support for the Old Age Security program; (c) commit to maintaining the sixty-five year
March 26th, 2012House debate
Sean CaseyLiberal
Corrections and Conditional Release Act Mr. Speaker, I am a lawyer by training and have practised law for most of my adult life. I served as managing partner in a successful law firm back home in Prince Edward Island. I have some experience as a prosecutor with respect to narcotics offences and election offences. That
March 16th, 2012House debate
Sean CaseyLiberal
Corrections and Conditional Release Act Mr. Speaker, as the Liberal critic, the member for Lac-Saint-Louis, has already indicated, we will vote to send this bill to committee to ensure that it makes sense and to hear from experts as to whether it is even constitutional. I have serious concerns as to its constitutionali
March 16th, 2012House debate
Sean CaseyLiberal
Veterans Affairs Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Minister of Veterans Affairs had a letter in the Charlottetown Guardian, praising the employees of his department. However, last Saturday he had a letter in the Chronicle Herald calling them a bloated, inefficient bureaucracy. Why is the minister speak
March 16th, 2012House debate
Sean CaseyLiberal
John F. Dee Mr. Speaker, I rise here today to pay tribute to the life of John F. Dee, who passed away last Friday in Grand Falls, New Brunswick, after a tough battle with cancer. John worked for Canadian Pacific for his entire career. He was a long-time member of his local Baptist church. He
March 16th, 2012House debate
Sean CaseyLiberal
Safe Streets and Communities Act Mr. Speaker, legal scholars across this country and the Canadian Bar Association have very serious concerns about the constitutionality of many aspects of this bill. The member for Mount Royal has asked the minister whether he will table the legal opinions with respect to its c
March 7th, 2012House debate
Sean CaseyLiberal
Safe Streets and Communities Act Madam Speaker, part of the reason we are here today discussing amendments to this legislation coming back from the Senate requires a little context. When the bill was at committee, the member for Mount Royal indicated that with respect to victims of terrorism, the bill needed to
March 6th, 2012House debate
Sean CaseyLiberal
Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, I, too, would like to commend the hon. member for his work as the chairman of our committee. I know that I have not made it particularly easy for him. It would be great if more of the committee business was done in public. However, he is a good man, doing a good job.
March 5th, 2012House debate
Sean CaseyLiberal
Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, I heard the parliamentary secretary in the course of her remarks say that to keep the status quo would be an immense disservice to our veterans and yet the amendment proposed by the government side is to maintain veterans' benefits. I am not an English major but I am
March 5th, 2012House debate
Sean CaseyLiberal
Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, over the course of the debate today we have heard government members, including the minister, imply that it is necessary to defeat the motion in order to tackle red tape, that if the motion passes, then veterans would be burdened by red tape. In my respectful submis
March 5th, 2012House debate
Sean CaseyLiberal
Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague, who is also a member of the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs, for his remarks and interest on the mental health of veterans. He rightly pointed out that there are 17 occupational stress injury clinics across the country. My question for t
March 5th, 2012House debate
Sean CaseyLiberal
Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, we heard in question period that the apparent enemy of veterans was red tape and that we really needed to not pass the NDP motion so we could get at the red tape, which leaves me a little confused. I would ask the hon. member if the elimination of red tape within the
March 5th, 2012House debate
Sean CaseyLiberal