Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. The actual lease includes an annex where you can clearly see the three closed offices that were for the three party workers. They had separate spaces closed off, and the rest of the space was shared. The two collective agreements are quite substantial, as is normally the

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  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  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  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  Mr. Chair, I am the kind of person who checks. We have looked at the entire matter in detail on several occasions in the past few weeks. I am going to cite one of the most important rules. It is useful to refer to it in response to my colleague's question. I am going to do it in

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, of course I am.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, I don't.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, I do.