Transport committee  , if you so wish. My name is Jean-Pierre Bazinet and I am a municipal councillor for the City of Levis. I am also president, Chutes-la-Chaudière East Sector, which includes the neighbourhood of Charny, Breakeyville, Saint-Jean-Chrysostome and Saint-Romuald. I am accompanied today

Criminal Code   in many regards, has been obliged to recognize those facts by the back door, once again. The fact is that right now, in Canada, as is the case in a number of western countries, it must be noted, a person can work, earn a wage, have a full-time job, and be living in poverty. People can

Business of Supply   the provinces are predominant, and which represents the constitutional basis for the Quebec Pension Plan and protects it. In addition, other subjects related to the distinct character of Quebec fall exclusively within provincial jurisdiction, in particular, civil rights and property

Canadian Heritage committee  No. We're talking private property here. The rights to those films are held by the distributors when it comes to retail sales, for example. It's up to them to promote and sell their titles. They're not government owned. I will make a note of that excellent question, the idea

Bank Act  , a number of things will need to be discussed in committee, and I will talk about those in my speech. We will therefore vote in favour of Bill C-37 at second reading, but we reserve the right to improve the bill, with the help of the other parties in this House, so that it better meets

Budget Implementation Act, 2006, No. 2   economic backbone of Quebec. The Bloc Québécois will obviously, therefore, support these measures. In general, much still needs to be done, but we have a few steps here in the right direction and the Bloc Québécois will vote in favour of Bill C-28. I would like, first, to describe

Emergency Management Act   of persons and property in the event of disaster, dating from 1979. I want to point out that this reorganization took place under the direction of the member for Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, who was then the Minister of Public Safety in the National Assembly of Quebec. Under the law

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with such orders. The amendments also provide that, in the event of a prosecution, a committee of the House of Commons may issue an opinion that is to be provided to the judge before whom the proceedings are held. Finally, Part 1 amends the Public Service Employment Act to remove the right

Sales Tax Amendments Act, 2006   be totally unacceptable. It would be unbelievably cynical. I think the public, Quebeckers in particular, would not fall for it. I prefer to let the Minister of Finance and the Prime Minister know right away that such a move would be totally unacceptable to the Bloc Québécois. This bill

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. You really sadden me because you seem to be educated and informed people, and you're taking part in the fear campaign launched by Jean-Pierre Blackburn, the Minister of Labour, who has even raised the scarecrow of the 911 services, whereas we

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, committee members. I am very pleased to be appearing once again before you today. My name is Ron Moran. I'm the National President of the Customs Excise Union Douanes Accise, our CEUDA. With me today is CEUDA's National Vice-President, Mr. Jean-Pierre

Business of Supply   of Japanese Canadians and took away their property rights and every civil right they ever had. It was Mackenzie King who rejected German Jewish refugees who sought refuge in Canada. John Diefenbaker brought in the Bill of Rights, the first recognition in this country of protecting

Canadian Heritage committee   allowed for a very substantial decrease in prices. Another myth I would like to dispel is that by which people believe that the right to broadcast television programs is a privilege, because the airwaves are public property. Do you believe that YouTube.com which has just signed a deal

Bank Act   of the members of the Standing Committee on Finance and the committee had to take it upon itself to initiate a study of bank fees. Once again, on questions of this type, we must not take an ideological approach, whether on the right or on the left. We must first try to understand why banks

Business of Supply   of the fairness of the equalization formula. The tax bases used in the calculation have been reduced in number from 33 to 5, which we find much more transparent. Quebec's argument was also accepted—and I imagine this is true for other provinces—that property values must be calculated