Oceans Act  Madam Speaker, the other question I want to ask the member is on the consultation piece. He talked a lot about the communities in the north that he met with, both during some of the consultations on Bill C-55 and the process at committee, and through his outreach efforts to learn

Petitions  Madam Speaker, today, I am tabling a petition in support of Bill S-240, which would combat the scourge of forced organ harvesting. This bill is currently before the Senate. I hope it will be passed quickly.

Special Olympics World Summer Games  Mr. Speaker, I rise to mark the achievement of a great young Calgarian, Amber Harriman, from my riding of Calgary Shepard, who returned in March from Abu Dhabi, where she competed in the 2019 Special Olympics World Summer Games as part of Team Canada. Out of the 12 medals brought

Multilateral Instrument in Respect of Tax Conventions Act  Madam Speaker, God is an honest payer, but a very slow one, as the Yiddish proverb goes. It means that for all the good things we do during our life, the treasures await us in heaven, which is a very common thing many Christians believe. The National Prayer Breakfast was this mor

Multilateral Instrument in Respect of Tax Conventions Act  Madam Speaker, as the member knows, I support this legislation as well. It is one of the few Liberal initiatives that actually makes some sense. I have called it in the House before a tax treaty for tax treaties. That is really what it is. The member talked about many other thin

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Madam Speaker, I will go back to the member's introductory remarks about first-time homebuyers and some of the measures introduced in the first part of the budget, or chapter 1, as I call it. With regard to the RSP measure, only about 8.5% of Canadians max out their RSP. It is a

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I hate to interrupt the member for Courtenay—Alberni, but he has an important question, and there is so much noise from the antechamber around us from people speaking very loudly that I cannot hear the member speaking in the House. I am interested in hearing both the

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, when the Liberals nationalized the Trans Mountain pipeline, Canadians were told that their $4.5 billion would allow construction to begin immediately. Little did they know that the Liberals meant that Kinder Morgan would start building pipeline in Texas immediately.

Provincial Elections  Mr. Speaker, what do islanders and Albertans have most in common? They live in provinces named after royals, they name their kids after today's royals, and they defeated provincial allies of the Prime Minister at the ballot box. In Alberta, after a long winter of discontent, vot

Credit Card Fairness Act  Madam Speaker, I am pleased to be rising at this late hour to join the debate on this private member's bill, Bill C-419. Bill C-419 is an act to amend the Bank Act, the Trust and Loan Companies Act, the Insurance Companies Act and the Cooperative Credit Associations Act. The rea

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, on that morning or evening—after 30-plus hours of voting, who can remember?—I remember the government losing a bunch of confidence votes and its members scurried in, trying to make up for the fact they were not in their seats to vote at the time. Members will know

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, I am so glad I was able to catch your eye this late in the evening to rise to speak about this concurrence report. What I wanted to do in my initial comments was to mention that I co-seconded the amendment. I know members are probably tired from this later-evening

Fairness for All Canadian Taxpayers Act  Mr. Speaker, I am glad to be joining this debate in this late evening on a Wednesday. At the outset, I am going to share a few observations about the debate so far on this Senate proposal as well as some observations about things that were said in the House. First of all, this i

Privilege  Yes, Mr. Speaker, it is just to add to the opposition House leader. Many members, including you Mr. Speaker, know this. I rose quite often during the supplementary estimates (B) voting to call out the members who were not in their seats and had not heard the question but had vo

Finance  Mr. Speaker, with respect to some of the points the member brought up, that is not an answer. It is partially the same answer I got from the Minister of Finance. With regard to the first part, the Liberals promised a middle-income tax cut conditioned on raising more revenue from