Committees Of The House   in the chronology, the Auberge du Gouverneur Shawinigan. This $6.4 million hotel project is owned by Pierre Thibault, a businessman from Belgium. He received federal government grants and loans. An amount of $600,000 was announced on March 13, 1997 under the HRD targeted wage subsidy program

Canada National Parks Act  , and the question of the time limits for the examination of ministerial orders with respect to amendments to certain schedules of the proposed legislation, which we feel are too short. There was also the issue of respect for the rights of communities living within or near parks and, finally

Organized Crime   rights to tackle one group, we have to bear in mind that we suspend the rights to all of our citizens. That does not happen often. It happened with the War Measures Act before we had the charter of rights and freedoms. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act

Youth Criminal Justice Act   aboriginal people when in fact what we want to do is for instance grant individual aboriginals property rights which in many cases they do not currently have. Rather than a kind of confrontational approach, would she consider that there is some merit, certainly Pierre Trudeau saw

Criminal Code   at the offices of his newspapers. That was not the only incident in Canada where journalists had been the subject of attack, where they have had the courage to stand up and say the right things and write the right things. Jean-Pierre Charbonneau, who is now speaker of the Quebec legislature

Supply   position at four of the five sectoral tables. We do not know its positions on such important issues as investment, investment protection, services, dispute resolution and intellectual property. This too is a source of confusion and concern. It was apparent in the hours following the end

Resource Industries  Mr. Chairman, yes, I certainly would not want to suggest that the move in the last budget or the measures taken before the election were insignificant. It was a step in the right direction. The problem is that this was done very quickly. The whole budget was prepared hastily. I

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, you know how much I have been concerned about organized crime and the fight against organized crime as the member for Hochelaga—Maisonneuve. I have to say right off that I find this bill introduced by the Minister of Justice and her colleague, the Solicitor General

Supply   which, when there are international disputes, resolve them between states. That is one of the reasons that has screwed up—the right word for it, in my opinion—all the negotiations on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, because of the belief, by the premier of France

Patent Act  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise to speak to Bill S-17, an act to amend the Patent Act. We in the Bloc Quebecois believe that the issue of intellectual property is fundamental and important in the context of stimulating innovation and creativity, especially in the health

Supply   the debate in the right perspective. It reads as follows: That, in the opinion of this House, the government should call a federal-provincial first ministers' conference for the purpose of reapportioning the tax base among the federal and provincial governments through the transfer

Anti-Terrorism Act  , is in breach of international law. The response to the September 11 terrorist attacks should be under the framework of the United Nations. These are also very dangerous and difficult times on the domestic front. Thomas Berger wrote an eloquent book on the fundamental rights and freedoms

Canada—Costa Rica Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act   State, by an investor of one Contracting Party in the territory of the other Contracting Party in accordance with the latter's laws and, in particular, though not exclusively, includes: (i) movable and immovable property and any related property rights, such as mortgages, liens

Yukon Act  , it will transfer the administration and control of public real property. The minister's desire to modernize the institutions of Yukon is a good thing. And so we consider it a step in the right direction in order to decentralize the powers of the federal government in the day to day

Canadian Wheat Board Act   today. The reason this debate over the Canadian Wheat Board exists is because we do not have property rights enshrined in our charter of rights and freedoms. Pierre Trudeau refused to enshrine those rights, which was a travesty of justice. Our courts do not fully recognize our bill