Article 205. Misleading Declaration about the Activities of a Legal Entity

– Mr President, this issue is surrounded by half-truths and misleading statements which cast doubt over the integrity of the issue and raise more questions than answers.

The above deliberate 'ambiguities' are rooted in the fact that the misleading statements about 'supporting agriculture' hide an effort, via specific programmes, to structurally adapt Community agriculture to the demands of the CAP, the WTO and the multinationals and monopolies and to redistribute resources between the first and second pillar in order to conceal and mitigate the consequences and prevent social outcry, given that the aim of 'differentiating economic activities in the countryside' means in practice a drastic reduction in paramount agricultural activity and the search for 'analgesics' for farmers in the new and old Member St ...[+++]ates whose holdings are wiped out.

In our submission on Bill C-63, we noted the inconsistency between enforcement proceedings against permanent residents for misrepresentation leading to obtaining that status, before obtaining citizenship, and enforcement proceedings for the same misrepresentation taken against the same person after they became a citizen.

It is illogical that a person whose misrepresentation is found out after years of residence and acquisition of citizenship be in a less favourable position than one whose misrepresentation is discovered during their permanent resident status.

Mr. Pierre Brien: Some people tell us that the reference, in New Zealand, imposes the following test: to show that there was contempt, you would first have to show that there was a misleading statement and second, that the member who made the misleading statement knew it was misleading when he said it, that it was inaccurate and that by making that statement, the member intended to mislead the House.