Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, on April 8, 2014, some one and a half months ago, there was a change of rules and I'll read it to you: ...adopting the following provisional amendment to the Members By-law: Place of work 93.1(1) No employee of a Member or House Officer may have as their reg

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Oh, darn.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, such a substantive question now deserves a substantive answer now. With regard to the place of work, there has been a change that came into effect on April 8, 2014. There's a basic principle of statutory interpretation. It's best expressed in French. It states tha

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Oh, darn.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's an interesting question, because it's so comically loaded it's worthy of nothing but contempt. You are affirming that is the case, whereas if you look at that package, you'll see that on September 22, 2014, Marie-Dominique Sicé wrote to Christian Boileau, the same person

Procedure and House Affairs committee  What I've just said is true. I'm not going to let you impugn the motives of someone who worked for us a few years ago, and Audrey O'Brien is someone who is deserving of the respect of every single person in this House. She's an outstanding public officer, who has served with dign

Procedure and House Affairs committee  —and sincere in working with the House administration on this issue from day one.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We have correspondence that follows on those exchanges in 2011, dozens and dozens of emails back and forth. I can quote them for you from October, 2012 up to January, 2014, direct correspondence with the House of Commons, sent to them with the Montreal addresses with the title th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I guess the answer to that is this lovely picture of Stephen Harper boasting strong economic leadership, and this somewhat unflattering picture of me talking about reckless spending and higher taxes. You see, this is something invented by the Conservatives. That's why we took it

Procedure and House Affairs committee  From Stephen Harper's mailings—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  “Thomas Mulcair and the NDP have very different priorities than those of our Conservative Government. Indeed, in Mr. Mulcair's first year as leader, he showed where his priorities really lie. He continued to support a $21.5 billion tax on carbon”—which is a bald-faced lie—“a tax

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We have more, Mr. Woodworth. Do you want me to start reading John Baird's mail-outs? They're identical.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm going to read to Mr. Woodworth an exchange of emails from November 22, 2011.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  This is from the House of Commons to us: Hi Marie-Dominique, Here is how the cheques will be distributed for the 8/9 Montreal employees. ... There follows a list stating "cheque to home" in Montreal, "direct deposit" to a bank in Montreal and so on. It also states the n

Procedure and House Affairs committee  —where they wanted, including at an office for which rent was paid by a political party.