Division No. 298  This legislation creates a national revenue collecting agency, the Canada customs and revenue agency, to replace Revenue Canada. The CCRA transforms Revenue Canada into a quasi-independent tax agency to take over the collection of personal and corporate income tax, provincial sales tax, the goods and services tax, customs duties and excise taxes on gasoline and alcohol levies.

Canada Customs And Revenue Agency Act  It seems to me that is part of what is going on and I want to say how strongly I object to it. I happen to have the taxation data centre for western Canada in my riding. Many hundreds of Canadians work there, many full time as well as part time early in the spring when people's tax returns are due. I was recently there to participate with many of the workers, hundreds of them again, when they were demonstrating in favour of pay equity, when they were showing their anger at this government for not respecting the judgment of the tribunal.

Canada Customs And Revenue Agency Act  Give a proper balance to the rights of Canadian taxpayers. Change this legislation so it does that and then perhaps we can support the legislation.

Canada Customs And Revenue Agency Act  Dissatisfaction with paying taxes should lead. though, to actions to lower tax levels and to make the government more accountable for the use of tax dollars. Dissatisfaction with paying taxes cannot justify the evasion of taxes properly owed.

The Budget  These people are paying more taxes because the government did not index the tax tables. This means that the tax burden of the middle class remains excessively heavy. To be sure, the Minister of Finance will tell us about the child tax benefit.

Income Tax Conventions Implementation Act, 1997  So Canadians receiving U.S. social security benefits have already paid taxes on those benefits. A Canadian working in the U.S. would pay taxes on his or her premiums but would pay little or no taxes when he or she claimed the benefits.

Supply  This is not about family trusts. I cannot say that more emphatically. What this issue is about is how we tax the property of Canadians who emigrate and how we tax the property of people who are not Canadians but who hold Canadian property. It is about the thing we call taxable Canadian property, that is, and let us be clear, property that remains taxable in Canada even though the owner may not live here and may not reside in the country.

Supply  Why does the CBC spend 40 percent of its budget in Quebec when the Quebec population is about 24 or 25 percent of the Canadian population? It is obvious that Quebecers can draw concrete benefits, financial, political and cultural benefits from being a part of the Canadian federation. Cases of demagogy and propaganda have also been raised.

Supply  It is unlikely that Canadians are any more risk adverse than anyone else in the world. They will take risks. However, we have always had taxation and fiscal policies that encouraged investment in enterprises that had hard assets to back them up as opposed to enterprises that were based strictly on knowledge.

Cn Commercialization Act  The debate today concerns the privatization of Canadian National. Whenever the name of a railroad is invoked sooner or later taxpayers will have their hands in their pockets. That has been the case ever since day one in the railroad industry in Canada and nothing will likely change that.

Members Of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act  The annuity I draw comes from a superannuation fund paid into by former and present members of the RCAF and Canadian Armed Forces over many years. That fund currently stands at just under $30 billion so the notion that my annuity is a gift out of the taxpayer's pocket is simply untrue. My annuity has been fully paid for and hon. members should be aware of that.

Charitable And Non-Profit Organization Director Remuneration Disclosure Act  There are two distinct advantages to achieving charitable status in Canada. Once an organization is registered it is exempt from paying income tax. Registration also allows the organization to issue official donation receipts which donors then claim as income tax credits. This results in a reduction of tax revenues to the government.

Immigration Act  That means little when compared with these numbers. I can assure my hon. colleagues this is a consensus issue. Canadians were shocked when I brought to light the fact that immigrants are not screened for AIDS. Now that they know, they do support the necessary changes. However, there is more to this than simply acting on the will of the Canadian people.

Supply  It is non-votable and it reads as follows: That this House call upon the government in its next budget to avoid any tax increases targeting low and middle income taxpayers and to consider instead trimming the fat from the government, eliminating tax expenditures which primarily benefit large corporations and wealthy Canadians and collecting on unpaid tax debts owed to the federal government.