Environment committee  . Now you have greenhouse gas emissions that are projected to increase in India, along with a lot of dangerous pollutants. But they need the electricity. There were a lot of options that were discussed. But the EU was quite proud that they had lowered their greenhouse gas emissions

Tackling Violent Crime Act   to lower the crime rate as much as possible, and that is something the members of the Bloc Québécois work on every day. However, we must also put all this crime into perspective. I will provide another statistic. In terms of violent crime, Quebec has the second lowest rate and is just

Finance committee  . The first point would be significantly lower corporate tax rates, and the government followed suit on that in the economic statement. I notice that Mr. Del Mastro dumped all over our proposal as pandering to Bay Street tycoons, but he may have realigned his view after the government

Finance committee  , Brazil, Germany, and France, where research and development costs are much lower than in Canada. I think the program in itself is good. But in order to make sure that Canadian companies have all the incentives to continue to do the R and D here, we have to help them out. Right now

Finance committee  —of the $75-a-tonne carbon price is that the GDP would be lower by only 1.1% by 2020 than it would be in the absence of a climate change policy. I think this raises an important question. Is Canada going to forego making a real reduction in greenhouse gas emissions because

Tackling Violent Crime Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to commend the previous speaker for his speech and his understanding when it comes to dealing with crime and how to actually lower the crime rates. I dare say that the scope of the bill is problematic. It troubles me, because instead of dealing

Finance committee   and harmonize those as well with the goods and services tax. Things such as lowering corporate income tax rates and those sorts of things are very helpful, obviously, and certainly in terms of Canada's competitiveness worldwide are helpful. However, in a low-margin industry such as trucking

Manufacturing Industry   are not really working for Quebeckers. They have a unique opportunity to take action that will help Quebeckers, by lowering personal taxes, reducing corporate taxes or decreasing the tax on capital. They are not there for Quebeckers; we are there.

Initiative to Save a Million Lives   and delivering affordable health care services directly to local communities. Once fully implemented, the initiative will save the lives of over 500 children every day. I praise these efforts that are getting real results, including lower rates of tuberculosis, HIV-AIDS and malaria

Antonio Lamer   positions in the country, he never looked askance at the lower courts, where he practised law for many years. During his 10-year tenure as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Antonio Lamer had a remarkable impact on our country's justice system. Thanks to Justice Lamer, who

Tackling Violent Crime Act   decade action was not taken to get tough on people who commit gun crimes? Why was action not taken in the face of pleas from city mayors and from provinces to introduce a reverse onus on bail? Why was there no action taken on raising the age of protection where Canada had a lower age

Canadian Heritage committee  . When that happens, they will migrate away from lower-value shows--i.e., English Canadian shows.

Justice committee   in the lower house, the House of Commons, in most cases you are obliged to go back to the people. All we wanted to do--again, I want to thank you for your support for that bill, and the support of everyone at the report stage--

Canadian Heritage committee   the day when we've settled lower. The result has been, on the capital side, for example, that our capital budget has been reduced by about 30% and has not been increased, so part of the answer that I didn't give before to Mr. Scott is we are going to be faced with terrible problems

Industry committee  Should the government do something to help you? Perhaps your three sectors are doing very well and you don't have any recommendations to make to the committee. Life is beautiful. The banks are making profits of $6.4 billion, and lower taxes will give them a few million dollars