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Core 1..172 Hansard (PRISM::Advent3b2 10.50) CANADA House of Commons Debates VOLUME 141 Ï NUMBER 096 Ï 1st SESSION Ï 39th PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL REPORT (HANSARD) Tuesday, December 12, 2006 Speaker: The Honourable Peter Milliken CONTENTS (Table of Contents appears at back of this issue.) Also available on the Parliament of Canada Web Site at the following address: http://www.parl.gc.ca 5945 HOUSE OF COMMONS Tuesday, December 12, 2006 The House met at 10 a.m. CPC) moved for leave to introduce Bill C-42, An Act to amend the Quarantine Act. (Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed) Prayers *** ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE Ï (1000) CANADIAN HERITAGE [English] Mr. Gary Schellenberger (Perth—Wellington, CPC): Mr. MAHER ARAR INQUIRY Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, Hon. Stockwell Day (Minister of Public Safety, CPC): Mr. the tenth and eleventh reports related to Telefilm Canada and the Speaker, I have the honour to table today the policy review report of twelfth report related to the Canadian feature film industry by the the Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. Relation to Maher Arar. Issued under part I of the Inquiries Act, the report is entitled “A New Review Mechanism for the RCMP's PROCEDURE AND HOUSE AFFAIRS National Security Activities”. Mr. Gary Goodyear (Cambridge, CPC): Mr. Speaker, I have the [Translation] honour to present the twenty-fifth report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs regarding the membership of the On behalf of the Government of Canada, I want to sincerely thank legislative committee on Bill C-30, An Act to amend the Canadian the commissioner of inquiry, Associate Chief Justice of Ontario, the Environmental Protection Act, 1999, the Energy Efficiency Act and honourable Dennis O'Connor, for his work over the past two and a the Motor Vehicle Fuel Consumption Standards Act (Canada's Clean half years. Air Act). [English] Ï (1005) We will carefully review all of the implications of this report and respond in a formal manner in the near future. The Speaker: Pursuant to Standing Order 113(1) the report is deemed adopted. *** [Translation] (Motion agreed to) CANADIAN AIR TRANSPORT SECURITY AUTHORITY *** ACT Hon. Lawrence Cannon (Minister of Transport, Infrastruc- ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES READJUSTMENT ACT ture and Communities, CPC): Mr. Speaker, pursuant to section 33 of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority Act, I have the Mr. John Maloney (Welland, Lib.) moved for leave to introduce honour to table, in both official languages, the report of the Canadian Bill C-395, An Act to change the name of the electoral district of Air Transportation Security Authority Act Review Advisory Panel, Welland. entitled “Flight Plan: Managing the Risks in Aviation Security”. He said: Mr. Speaker, this is a bill to change the name from that of *** one municipality within the riding, which actually consists of five [English] different municipalities. We would like to change the riding name to Niagara Centre South, which is very similar to the name that QUARANTINE ACT represented roughly the same area in the 38th Parliament and before Hon. Tony Clement (Minister of Health and Minister for the that. I would ask respectfully that the House consider the renaming Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario, of the riding. 5946 COMMONS DEBATES December 12, 2006 Routine Proceedings (Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed) Farmers actually believe the minister will try a trick question, one that would mask what the government is really doing. That is why *** farmers forwarded these questions to the committee and asked that COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE we as a committee at least put these questions forward so that a fair question could be asked of farmers if indeed there is a plebiscite AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOOD called on barley and wheat. Hon. Wayne Easter (Malpeque, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I move that the sixth report of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri- These questions put forward by the farm community are clear and Food, presented to the House on Wednesday, December 6, be I ask Parliament for its support in this matter: a clear question on any concurred in. plebiscite that may be held in the future. This debate, while on the specific motion of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food, has a series of questions Farmers are right not to trust the government, because this has in it that we believe should be used in any future plebiscite on the been the issue all along. The government has tried to mask what the Canadian Wheat Board, but it is about much more than just those debate really is, and indeed, although now the Minister of questions. Agriculture stands up on an almost daily basis and claims he is turning to farmers in a plebiscite, what did he say some while ago? I This debate is really about governance, justice and fair play. This will quote the minister. debate is about a Prime Minister who is enforcing his ideology on prairie grain farmers regardless of whether farmers agree with him or not. This debate is about undermining the democratic principles that In the spring the minister failed repeatedly to support a plebiscite exist within Canada. by producers. At the Senate agriculture and forestry committee on October 3 of this year, he stated, “I have not had a plebiscite and I do I will turn first, to emphasize this point in terms of democratic not have plans for a plebiscite”. principles, to an article in the Red Deer Advocate by an individual by the name of Ken Larsen, who said: The parliamentary secretary was soundly defeated in terms of his Stephen Harper's Conservatives have identified an internal enemy that does not fit theory that farmers in his riding wanted to do away with the pro- their ideology. Using their power as the government, they have started a campaign of marketing board Wheat Board directors. In the election on the suppression and disruption supported by a flood of propaganda and misinformation, utilizing the federal bureaucracy. weekend in his riding, the farmers voted 66% in favour of a pro- The target of this attack, an organization 100 per cent funded and democratically Wheat Board single desk selling director, but the parliamentary controlled by its members, has been permanently stripped of its right to free speech secretary for the Canadian Wheat Board told the agriculture by ministerial order. committee on October 25, “For me, the issue is not about a Their organization is also the subject of Harper government propaganda attacks plebiscite”. on almost a weekly basis— The Deputy Speaker: Order. The member has been here a long However, on October 31 of this year, the minister announced that time and knows he cannot do indirectly what he is not permitted to a plebiscite will be held on barley marketing. It is a good thing that do directly. He keeps mentioning the Prime Minister by name. I wish there will be a plebiscite, but it really should be on both barley and he would stop doing that. wheat at the same time. Hon. Wayne Easter: I apologize, Mr. Speaker. I was quoting from an article. I will quote the article and I will insert the words “the What I am saying is that we really cannot trust the government in Prime Minister”. It states: terms of the Canadian Wheat Board issue. Let us look at the Prime Their organization is also the subject of [the Prime Minister's] government Minister's trickery itself. On April 6 the Prime Minister said in the propaganda attacks on an almost weekly basis; it is restricted by a cabinet directive House, “The government will empower producers by allowing them from expending any corporate resources to defend itself. These attacks come in the to have dual marketing options when it comes to the Wheat Board”. middle of this organization's democratic elections for membership to its board of directors. Ï (1010) Obviously this is now not just about a question on a plebiscite; it is about a government so driven by ideology that it is willing to The government has now changed its mind. It is not talking about undermine our reputation abroad as a trading nation, a government dual marketing anymore. There is no question that the government, that is willing to weaken our credibility as a trading nation and the in the last election campaign, did campaign on dual marketing. respect our grain markets have, with an economic cost for producers. While the Prime Minister may have promised something in the It is about a government that is willing to use misleading election, he really did not have the authority to carry it out because it propaganda, a strategy that really strays from the truth. is farmers themselves who should make those choices. Why are we having this debate? Why did the agriculture committee put forward this motion in the first place? It is because What we are seeing is that the government is now all about the government, which calls itself the new government, cannot be changing the language. When we listen to the minister's response or trusted. It cannot be trusted to allow a fair question. It cannot be the responses of members opposite, they are no longer talking about trusted to abide by the Wheat Board Act itself. It cannot be trusted to dual marketing, which they campaigned on during the election. They abide by democratic principles. are now using new words, “marketing choice”. Why? December 12, 2006 COMMONS DEBATES 5947 Routine Proceedings Mr.
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