Bob Bromley

Thank you, Madam Chair. The Minister mentioned Bill C-10. I want to just follow up very quickly, because, obviously, according to the discussion earlier in the House today – and I know the Minister is well aware and working on this – there are costs associated with this legislation. Just for efficiency, I will ask two questions right away here. Is there any work that the Minister has done on costing of likely new infrastructure needs resulting from the impacts of Bill C-10 that he can report on today? When might be the earliest point when we would expect such needs to materialize as a result...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Very briefly, this House has yet to rule on whether my use of “crimes against humanity” was indeed a wrong use of our language or not. But, obviously, Mr. McLeod believes it was wrong. I believe it was right, but he believes it was wrong and uses that to justify his using bad language or the wrong language as well. Do two wrongs make a right?

I’m wondering if we have a design for the facility, if we’ve actually got that. I want to introduce my last one as the Arctic Tern Facility and our youth facility generally. I’m wondering what the plans are. Is there a budget to deal with that situation this year, that facility? Are we going to get rid of it or tear it down? What’s happening with Arctic Tern and what are we doing with our youth offenders in terms of current and long-term planning?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise on a point of order under Section 23(i) where it speaks to imputing false or hidden motive by another Member. Section (h) makes allegations against another Member and Section (k) is abusive or insulting language of a nature likely to cause disorder.

I would like to draw Members’ attention to unofficial Hansard page 9 yesterday, where Mr. McLeod, Bob McLeod, in speaking in support of Mr. Miltenberger’s point of order in the House said: “I was offended, I guess, when Mr. Bromley lumped us all together as being somebody like Hitler or Pol Pot or General Radek because...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I missed the general comments part there, but if I may, I am concerned and I think it has been well established in the past that there is some urgent need to deal with the women’s correctional centres and we have some serious catch-up to do there. There is some serious crowding in existing facilities, very serious. I’m just wondering what the thinking on that is. I would have thought that would have been a priority. I realize we’re in a very strapped situation this time around and decisions are being made, but I’m wondering why it’s not here and where it sits, what the...

Madam Chair, I appreciate that is a good description of the system, but the key weaknesses have been identified. It doesn’t seem to deal with the frequency of the performance reviews. Once reviews are complete, they are not given the attention they deserve and a strong performance is unrecognized. Those need to be dealt with.

Again, it is no surprise in the House that I am becoming increasingly skeptical of our huge investments in software, especially when we need people jobs and we are continually bringing efficiencies that supposedly reduce personnel costs here. What will this bring us over...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to follow up on my colleague Mr. Dolynny’s statement on recognizing our aviation leaders, and mark the passing of a highly respected member of our community and a pillar of our aviation industry, Paul Laserich.

Paul passed away November 19th at his home here in Yellowknife, aged a mere 52 years. His passing came all too soon after the death of his beloved mother, Margaret Rose, this past summer.

Aviation and community service were the stuff of Paul’s life from the time he first moved with his family to Cambridge Bay in 1967. At the side of his father, Aviation...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m glad to hear those comments from the Minister that are brought to the floor of the House. In fact, I was planning on tabling today a definition of the crimes against humanity as defined by the International Criminal Court. Indeed, as the Minister left off, there are other details to the definition. I’d like to just read into the record, if I may, some of those details on which my remarks were based.

The definition includes under Section (k) of the definition, “Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate this opportunity. The only thing I would add is that an important part of it is that we do so knowledgably. This government is a very educated government. We are a very privileged nation and a very rich nation and our emissions are obviously off the scale in terms of a global comparison. I hope that you will include consideration of the millions and millions of families who are suffering as a result of government policies that allow our emissions to cause such climate change, including our youth delegation in Durban.

On the comment about emission and...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate the responses there. I just want to confirm the Minister of Finance’s information was that we were just shy of $1 billion. I suspect that we were under $1 billion at division and we adopted this $500 million at that time. If that’s the case, then obviously our budget has gone up probably much greater than 30 percent, with no change in our debt limit. Maybe I’ll stop there. Briefly, if the Minister could just confirm that I got that right.