Today, we are tabling a motion seeking the support of the House for the Government's decision to renew our military mission against ISIL for up to an additional 12 months. Our objectives remain the same: we intend to continue to degrade the capabilities of ISIL, that is, to degrade its ability to engage in military movements of scale, to operate bases in the open, to expand its presence in the region, and to propagate attacks outside the region.

The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.

It will come as no surprise to anybody to know that I support the traditional definition of marriage as a union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others, as expressed in our traditional common law.

Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it.

Canada is big enough to make a difference but not big enough to threaten anybody. And that is a huge asset if it's properly used.

Paul Martin talks eloquently about defending national sovereignty but the reality hasn't matched the rhetoric. When it comes to the United States, Mr. Martin says he calls them as he sees them, but when it comes to American passage through Canada, he doesn't actually see anything.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.