Employment Equity Act   will not find it very funny. My last point is this. What is the cost of this boondoggle? In the United States where quotas were created in 1970 the cost of affirmative action was estimated at 4 per cent of the GDP, $112 billion U.S. a year. In Canada there are no clear estimates

Government Organization Act (Federal Agencies)   Minister's chief fundraiser for his leadership campaign and his services now cost us $1,000 per day. The whole Pearson deal was a Tory patronage boondoggle in the first place and the Liberals won the election partly by denouncing Tory patronage. I guess it is only fitting that one

Justice   of sexual assault finally ended this litany of crime. I wonder if the parole board would consider mandatory supervision one more time for this habitual criminal. Mr. Gibbs promised to clear up boondoggles such as this in the parole board. We on this side of the House are watching

Natural Resources   and breaking a 10-year lease worth about $6 million on new quarters. In these times of economic restraint, how can the minister justify this boondoggle?

Firearms Act   public safety. Taxpayers could be paying for this boondoggle for decades to come. If there was any real prospect that the additional registration procedure would make a significant impact on violent crime, there would be reason to support such a plan. However, there is no convincing

Budget Implementation Act, 1995   assurances from the minister that this will not happen, that it will not be allowed to happen. The public servant who wrote this letter suggests that this boondoggle could cost the taxpayer in excess of $200 million. We in the Reform Party of Canada will watch the Liberals. We will hold

Income Tax Act   companies now have to state specifically the areas in which they are objecting concerning their income tax if it is being reassessed. On the public accounts committee we were dealing with what became known as the resource allowance boondoggle; $2 billion of tax money went down the drain

Highways   to be legally wrong, "I would certainly consider it morally wrong". This boondoggle will cost some companies upward of $400,000 annually, just so the minister of public works can buy some boats in his riding. Since the questions of morality, fairness and ethics are being raised not only

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation   the government is poised to bail out of this $250 million fiasco. The broadcast centre has been a financial disaster from the get go. Will the minister direct the auditor general to investigate the financing of this broadcast centre boondoggle and table the report in this Parliament?

Canada-United States Tax Convention Act, 1984   federal debt was the result of tax exemptions over the years, the drainage of billions and billions of dollars through tax loopholes. We might say that some of the tax breaks, tax loopholes or tax exemptions are beneficial. Some are absolute boondoggles and some are debatable. Do

The Environment   sure the Deputy Prime Minister would agree that it is critically important to ensure that the moneys actually go to where they are intended to go, which I am sure is her intent. I hope the program does not become like the Tory green plan, a $2.5 billion boondoggle that went nowhere

Employment Equity Act   Development Agency in what has been called potentially the biggest boondoggle in the last two decades. Jobs, jobs, jobs. What does it mean to the Liberal minister for Atlantic Canada, the minister of public works? Once again we see that the minister of public works has his own version

Agriculture   for this program relied on obsolete information. As a result, many farmers were left out of the initial mailing. My office has received hundreds of complaints from both grain and livestock producers who are fed up with this boondoggle. An example is a recent letter I received signed by over

Unemployment Insurance Reform  Mr. Speaker, I am not talking about test projects. I am talking about creating sustainable long term jobs, and not with these billion dollar boondoggle projects. In his last report the auditor general said there is absolutely no evidence that training is accompanied by new jobs

Employment Insurance Act   provinces, are all demanding more from less. Regional development boondoggles remain an active ingredient in the magic of creating jobs, jobs, jobs. On the sixth day of Christmas the minister of HRD, having no understanding of the meaning of insurance, gave us six government strategists