Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think that's a good question, and that's the way we're looking at it. I hope the committee is not looking at this through a straw. This is a very specific amendment, yes, but for us it's very hard to talk about improving the proof of residence without talking about vouching pr

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I believe that could work. I can't answer that question definitively, because I don't think Parliament has undertaken a thorough study of the best way to minimize voter fraud and enfranchise those with transient addresses. I don't have all the solutions, but I see no evidence tha

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks to the members of the committee for inviting the Canadian Federation of Students to appear today. I will be addressing three facets of the budget: the infrastructure for universities and colleges; research funding; and the student loan crackdown. T

Finance committee  To put a finer point on it, maybe, I think the comparison to the American stimulus package is very interesting in this context, because if Canada did it on the same scale, scaled down for our economy, and if the Canadian budget did what the American stimulus package proposes to d

Finance committee  I guess it all depends on how it will hit the ground. The budget was very clear about the priority being given to projects that build research capacity or something to that effect. To me, that doesn't include teaching. It can be interpreted to exclude teaching investments. That's

Finance committee  Just briefly, this is a very dangerous road that the government is going down in picking and choosing which fields are valuable. I don't think that's its role. This is a three-year increase to the Canada graduate scholarship. This is only for three years. What do we expect these