Canadian Broadcasting Corporation   for the CBC. Canadians cannot afford this any longer and they will not put up with any new taxes, especially for the CBC. Will the minister tell us categorically and right now that there will be no new entertainment tax introduced in order to fund this billion dollar boondoggle?

Social Security Programs  . It is time to eliminate shared jurisdiction over programs, eliminate duplication and overlap and consider clear accountability of governments. I feel strongly that this is the greatest boondoggle the government has come up with yet. We had this big drum roll before this was introduced

Department Of Natural Resources Act   overpriced foreign multinational oil company holdings such as Atlantic Richfield Pacific Petroleum, Petrofina, British Petroleum and Gulf Petroleum, creating one of the largest oil companies in Canada, this bureaucratic boondoggle was never able in any substantial way to fulfil

Health Care Forum   ministers. Guess what? They are really not coming. When will the health minister get it that the most important players do not want any part of this $12 million boondoggle?

Public Accounts Of Canada   prediction is that the cost of that tax boondoggle was added to the previous year's deficit. When will the government come clean with the Canadian public and make real, and I mean real, cuts to the deficit rather than use smoke and mirrors to make us think that progress is being made?

Infrastructure  Mr. Speaker, under the red ink book infrastructure plan, governments of Canada have borrowed over $4.7 billion in this $6 billion boondoggle and have created only 7,000 long term jobs. Given the statement of the finance minister yesterday about everything being on the table

Department Of Canadian Heritage Act  . It is an embarrassment of riches. So many boondoggles, so much waste, so little time. I want to talk in general about Canadian heritage and how it protects Canadian artists and the whole idea of government intervention in the artistic community. This is a relatively new occurrence in western

Department Of Canadian Heritage Act   accomplishments. We have a deficit of $40 billion a year, a debt of $535 billion a year and the high taxes that go with that. Canadians used to have some disposable income to spend on art. By running up the deficit because of this ridiculous boondoggle of handing out grants, now they have

Department Of Canadian Heritage Act   spendings when some priority items in the country are not being funded properly? It asks students to take on more student loans because it has run out of money for them. There is still money for the Canadian heritage society and every other boondoggle in the country, but no more money

Department Of Canadian Heritage Act   convoluted and so entwined in its own party politics, in its own rhetoric, that it keeps appointing people to these kinds of things? Let us look at our latest boondoggle by the minister of heritage. We have actually caught him in the act of a minister supporting an application

Department Of Canadian Heritage Act   of these museums. It certainly would eliminate some of the boondoggles like the current museum being built in the Prime Minister's riding, I would add again, at great cost to the taxpayers and a study indicating that this thing is doomed to failure. We find that after thoroughly

Department Of Canadian Heritage Act   boondoggle. However, I would point out that on a per capita basis multiculturalism grants cost each Canadians less than $1. The multiculturalism program has the aim of promoting equal opportunity for all Canadians to participate in the social, cultural, economic and political life

Department Of Natural Resources Act   more heavily to provide the money to subsidize the otherwise non-viable enterprises. If governments would avoid the megaproject boondoggles and reduce the tax burden on the smaller companies that are making a go of it on their own the industry would blossom and flourish. We would

The Cabinet   and tainted blood. Even the fisheries portfolio needs a change because of east and west coast fisheries boondoggles. When is the change going to come in the immigration department? We have the Schelew affair, José Salinas Mendoza bilking Canadians in a system of injustice, IRB patronage

Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency  Mr. Speaker, in recent weeks the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency has come under attack from members of the Reform Party as being nothing more than a boondoggle. Nothing could be further from the truth. ACOA provides valuable support to small business communities in places