Eric Duncan

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Ellen Crothers, a wonderful volunteer in S, D and G, for her outstanding community leadership and heartfelt service. Ellen was recently named the recipient of the Community Service Award at South Glengarry's business and community awards gala. Through the Mathew Crothers memorial charity, founded in honour of her son, she has transformed personal loss into [more]

Mr. Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise on behalf of the good people of Stormont—Dundas—Glengarry to present a petition. I want to thank constituent Sue-Anne Atkins for her advocacy and leadership on this animal rights issue. She says that records indicate that hundreds of piglets have been used in Canadian military training exercises despite the availability of more humane and [more]

Certainly improving the service response time would be one thing, and hopefully having something to help small businesses that are under that $1-million threshold would be something the government will take into consideration and fix in order to help them. As you mentioned, you have thousands of members, and I've spoken to many in my community in eastern Ontario about that, so I appreciate your [more]

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to our witnesses for being here today. It's been enlightening here over the past while. Mr. Kelly, I want to pick up on what you said earlier about questioning the efficiency of some of the countertariffs or the reasoning behind their being selected. My family was in the trucking business. My father is happily retired now—but he was a long-time CFIB member, I [more]

Mr. Speaker, my question for the hon. member focuses on accountability and transparency. What is being proposed here, the government says, is a better effort to procure defence items, which as a whole, at a far glance or an upper look at things, would be agreeable. However, the transparency is with respect to the amount of sole-sourcing. I believe, if I am correct, off the top of my head, there [more]

Mr. Speaker, the minister has talked about there being gaps. The biggest gap is in the minister's credibility. The more he talks, the worse it gets. For months, the minister promised to “get to the bottom of what happened”, yet he cannot even answer basic questions. This majorly embarrassing failure compromises Canadian security and, critically, the trust of our allies. The Liberals will not [more]

Mr. Speaker, the public safety minister's statements about the Liberals' failure to catch a Canadian-linked spy at NATO lack any credibility. Three years ago, the Public Service Commission found the spy had committed fraud by applying at CBSA under two different names and emails, failing to clarify why she submitted multiple applications. It was Belgium, not Canada, that caught this spy. How [more]