Fisherman's Road

I gave the following 10-minute speech on Bill C-43, the Budget Implementation Act (A Second Act to Implement Certain Provisions of the Budget Tabled in Parliament on Feb. 11, 2014 and Other Measures) on Thursday, Oct. 30th in the House of Commons. Mr. Speaker,                                                                                     This is my first opportunity to speak in this House since the events of last week. I am proud of how this House conducted itself in the wake of such terror, such atrocity, such shocking tragedy. It was good for Canada that we resumed sitting the very next morning. Good for Canada to stand strong. Good for Canada for our leaders to address Canadians, and to embrace - f or the nation to embrace. I’ve been here three years, Mr. Speaker, and last week was the first time as a Member of Parliament that I felt partisan lines dissolve. I felt that somewhat after Jack Layton died, and after the passing of Jim Flaherty, but not to the deg

I gave the following one-minute statement on Friday, Oct. 10th, in the House of Commons. Mr. Speaker, The Employment Minister is once again using his office for political party purposes. Just before the last election, the NDP obtained Conservative Party plans to campaign in, quote, "very ethnic" ridings, a partisan plan drawn up on ministerial letterhead. Now the minister is spending his days on Twitter, sending out crudely drawn attacks on opposition politicians. But it's not the minister himself firing up Microsoft Paint to put block letters on opposition faces. No, it's his staff who are putting this together. Even the Canadian Taxpayers' Federation has had enough of his antics. And who can forget the very same minister last year tweeting out how he thought it was, quote, a "good thing" that his staff were not unionized. So while the mess he has made of the Temporary Foreign Worker program spirals out of control, the minister and h

I posed the following question today (Oct. 9th) during Question Period in the House of Commons: Mr. Speaker, News broke today that Canada Post plans to discontinue door-to-door delivery to 29,000 homes in the St. John's/Mount Pearl area next fall. Many of the people in those 29,000 homes are seniors, are people with physical disabilities and mobility issues, they're Canadians who view home-mail delivery as a treasured Canadian service. Mr. Speaker, What does this government have to say to the people of the St. John's/Mount Pearl area who will be directly impacted by this massive cut in service?

I posed the following question today (Oct. 7th) in the  House of Commons during debate over a Canadian combat mission to Iraq.

I posed the following question in the House of Commons on Wednesday (Oct. 1st) on NAFO cuts to the offshore shrimp quota and the potential impact on Newfoundland and Labrador.