Holidays Act  Madam Speaker, I am very pleased and proud to be here to support my colleague from West Nova's bill. This bill would make Remembrance Day a legal holiday. November has passed, and all of our communities have commemorated another November 11. I know how very proud all members of

Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague, whose riding is across the river from my riding of Gatineau. The member again is getting very good at reciting all of the dogma and the failed experiments in supply-side economics. What he fails to realize is that with respect to outcomes, in t

Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, every time members on that side of the House get up and give a speech about debt, I am struck by their temerity. They watched as the previous government, a government that was reimbursing Canadian debt, that was reimbursing debts incurred by previous Conservative adm

Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. Like him, I served on the Standing Committee on Finance when the proposed amendments to the Bank Act were being examined. I think my colleague is laying it on a bit thick. There is nothing here that will take away protections for

Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 2  Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague from the Standing Committee on Finance for his excellent speech. He speaks of the legacy of the Conservative government. Indeed, the Conservative legacy is one of anemic growth; they ran deficits for nine consecutive years after inheriting a

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech and for the little taste she gave us of the same old Republican rhetoric we have been hearing for the past 50 years. She mentioned Canada's backbone. I will tell her what our backbone consists of. It consists of the tradition esta

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. As the hon. member knows, Canada has shown its concern for the Cuban people on many occasions. This concern has been expressed repeatedly because Liberal prime ministers of Canada have gone to Cuba to talk about democratization o

Fall Economic Statement  Mr. Speaker, I had the opportunity earlier to congratulate the finance critic for the official opposition on his address, and I thank this member for his address as well. Hopefully I will do better with him than I did with the finance critic. When we arrived in office, we inheri

Fall Economic Statement  Mr. Speaker, I enjoyed the speech made by my colleague from the Standing Committee on Finance. The member tried to sell us the same song he was unable to sell in the Quebec National Assembly for a number of years. He did not succeed today, either. However, he came here with a

Charity Fundraising Event  Mr. Speaker, on Saturday, October 15, I had the privilege of attending the eighth annual “Les Rêves de Monique” event, celebrating the courage, determination, and strength of women and men who have had breast cancer surgery. Every year “Les Rêves de Monique” hosts a fashion show

Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 2  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from Saint-Maurice—Champlain. Gatineau is a very dynamic city. It is constantly growing, and its population is younger than average. Its needs reflect that. The fact is that we have a growing need for basic infrastructure, such as roads, water

Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 2  Madam Speaker, the commitment we made during the campaign was to double infrastructure spending to about $120 billion over 10 years, compared to the $65 billion mentioned or promised by the previous government. That is what we are going to do. In communities from coast to coast

Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 2  Madam Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague from Edmonton-Centre for sharing his time with me. As always, it is an honour and a privilege to represent the citizens of Gatineau in the House. It is a great honour for any parliamentarian to represent the views and perspectives of the

Infrastructure  Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, who recently signed bilateral agreements with all of the provinces and territories for phase 1 of our government's historic infrastructure plan, Investing in Canada. The Gatineau Rapibus extensio

Canada Labour Code  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my Quebec colleague for his speech. He said that the government has a long way to go. I think that members on this side of the House would agree with me that the reason why there is a long way to go is that the previous government went to grea