Finance committee  We have already discussed the Canada account with the Department of Finance. It is indeed the Minister of International Trade and the Minister of Finance who approve these loans through the Canada account. So I'd like to know, first of all, what the criteria are for these loans

Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement Implementation Act   NAFTA to ensure that this agreement was good for Canada and Canadians and that we could all prosper through free and fair trade. That did not only happen here. We went to the United States, through our committee and ministers' offices. Many members here had the opportunity to speak

Business of Supply  , Quebeckers will have access to that money and to dental care services. As I mentioned in my speech, people are lining up at the Université de Montréal to access free care because they have no other option. Does the Bloc understand how important it is to give the Government of Quebec

Citizenship Act   see the government's lack of follow-up on a whole range of issues, to sitting down and negotiating so we get the free, prior and informed consent that is part of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Could the member express the frustration that so many people

Finance committee   on the public dime would occur through the Canada account of the EDC, which is subject to approval from you and the Minister of International Trade. Therefore, my first question is this: What is the limit in terms of what you are prepared to have the taxpayers assume around Trans Mountain

Finance committee  I’d like to thank the witnesses. My first questions are for Mr. Lampron and Mr. Weins. You talked about the expanded market access under the recent trade deals and the negative impact on supply management. I have two questions for you. The first has to do with the reciprocity

Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement Implementation Act   offered by the NDP. I might as well get to the crunch of the challenge we face here. As Conservatives, we negotiated 98% of Canada's export access; 98% were deals negotiated by the Conservatives. That included the U.S. free trade agreement, NAFTA, CETA and the trans-Pacific

Extension of Sitting Hours   initially brought forward. There were also free trade agreements, such as with the European Union and the Trans Pacific Partnership, as well as bills on victims' rights in the military justice system. Obviously, we agreed with those bills. We basically brought the government to the one

Members Not Seeking Re-Election to the 43rd Parliament   service. I thank Jill for all her hard work. Peter Roos was my first campaign manager, but also a loyal friend and confidante from the beginning. Peter joined the office team in 2010, and finally decided to hang them up just before his 80th birthday last year. That has not stopped

Privilege   such a situation, and we certainly went many decades back late into the evening last night. The closest equivalent was from Speaker Milliken on March 8, 2005, in relation to Bill C-31 and Bill C-32, bills that proposed creating a department of international trade separate from the Department

Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement Implementation Act  Mr. Speaker, I asked a question. It would have been enough to answer me, but as usual the Liberal government prefers to attack the NDP. As far as trade agreements are concerned, the NDP has always supported trade agreements that are fair, while the Conservatives and Liberals

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act   America, they actually have poverty alleviation as part of their trade agreements. There are a number of different models that are fair trade agreements, rather than these right-wing free trade agreements that have all of the weaknesses the member for Essex has cited. Therefore, I

Canada–Madagascar Tax Convention Implementation Act, 2018   the tax level is 0%, it is a tax haven. It is a way of legalizing tax evasion. In the same way, it is why we often did not support Conservative trade agreements under the last Parliament. Conservative fair trade is an oxymoron. The Conservatives have never signed a fair trade

Business of Supply  , this is one of the things that are so characteristic of this country. I was proud to be a member of the government that enacted the acid rain treaty between Canada and the United States and the free trade agreement between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, and I was proud of the fact

Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act   in cosmetics, and who have also been urging members of Parliament to adopt the bill. I praise those members, and will come back to where the government should be going procedurally in a moment. First, I would like to thank all the activists involved in Be Cruelty-Free, including