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Public Services and Procurement  Mr. Speaker, this is National Public Service Week, and I want to express our gratitude to our impressive public service. Everyone in the House is committed to bringing the Phoenix transaction backlog down to zero. We will not do as the Conservatives did and lay off 700 public se

June 11th, 2019House debate

Steven MacKinnonLiberal

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, as has been pointed out in this chamber many times, the member and his colleagues ran on a solemn vow to balance the budget at all costs and made some extravagant promises. We knew the NDP would not keep that commitment. We know that every time members of New Democ

June 4th, 2019House debate

Steven MacKinnonLiberal

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, of course our hearts go out to all the public servants who are still having problems with the Phoenix pay system. I can assure my hon. colleague that we have rebuilt capacity within government by hiring about 1,000 compensation advisors. We have invested hundreds of

June 4th, 2019House debate

Steven MacKinnonLiberal

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, I am rather shocked and surprised. The member may be surprised to realize that we have one thing in common: We both come from an area that graduates a heck of a lot of students. There are two universities, maybe a college, in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Certainly in

June 4th, 2019House debate

Steven MacKinnonLiberal

Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1  Mr. Speaker, for those watching, I would like to say that we just heard our colleague from Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound say farewell. I would certainly like to join the other members of the House in thanking him for his service to Canadians. Today, I am speaking to my constituents in G

June 4th, 2019House debate

Steven MacKinnonLiberal

Public Services and Procurement  Mr. Speaker, unlike the Harper Conservatives, we opened up the shipbuilding process. We gave Davie some very lucrative contracts, including an icebreaker refit and several vessel repairs. Now, we are looking to involve a third shipyard and give it the opportunity to participate

May 31st, 2019House debate

Steven MacKinnonLiberal

Public Services and Procurement  Madam Speaker, we have very good news. Unlike the Harper Conservatives, we have listened to contractors on the need for federal prompt payment legislation. We know these businesses provide good, middle-class jobs to many Canadians from coast to coast to coast, and they deserve to

May 30th, 2019House debate

Steven MacKinnonLiberal

Government Contracts  Mr. Speaker, Public Services and Procurement does not grant deferred prosecution agreements. We implement very solemnly the administrative arrangements that we currently have, taking that responsibility very seriously. Our integrity regime is one of the most stringent in the worl

May 27th, 2019House debate

Steven MacKinnonLiberal

Government Contracts  Mr. Speaker, I am happy to have this opportunity to reiterate our government's priority on protecting the integrity of our public programs and services. Our department, Public Services and Procurement, is the central purchasing agent and real property manager on behalf of other d

May 27th, 2019House debate

Steven MacKinnonLiberal

Public Services and Procurement  Mr. Speaker, of course, we are in complete solidarity with the public servants who are labouring and suffering under the Harper-inspired Phoenix pay system, where they cut 700 qualified public servants, cut tens of millions of dollars in phony savings, and left us without an alte

May 17th, 2019House debate

Steven MacKinnonLiberal

Public Services and Procurement  Mr. Speaker, of course we are working very hard. Our hearts go out to all the public servants affected by the problems with the Phoenix pay system. We inherited it from the Harper government, which had the utmost contempt for our public servants and axed 700 public service positi

May 17th, 2019House debate

Steven MacKinnonLiberal

Public Services and Procurement  Mr. Speaker, of course we were left with the other debacle of the Phoenix pay system after 700 public servants were summarily dismissed and tens of millions of dollars were cut from the federal budget to pay our public servants. This government is committed entirely to paying ou

May 17th, 2019House debate

Steven MacKinnonLiberal

The Environment  Madam Speaker, I listened with attention to the member's statement. Fundamentally, the pan-Canadian framework to combat the effects of climate change reposes on a simple idea and, at its heart, a Conservative idea. It is a market-based solution where we price behaviours that are

May 16th, 2019House debate

Steven MacKinnonLiberal

Official Languages committee  Absolutely. I would repeat, once again, that we are ready to hear and consider your suggestions on this matter. I know the government's listening very closely. In this 50th anniversary year of the Official Languages Act, our government is constantly striving to improve, to take

May 7th, 2019Committee meeting

Steven MacKinnonLiberal

Official Languages committee  I don't think you can say obstruct when there've been 85 meetings. Mr. McBain just explained it to you. I don't think I need to draw you a picture to describe urban planning in Vancouver.

May 7th, 2019Committee meeting

Steven MacKinnonLiberal