Canada Small Business Financing Act   those billion dollar bottom lines starting to add up. As the finance minister often reminds us, governments have to make tough choices. What we rarely see is this government making a choice to give up on a cherished boondoggle when it is shown that money is not being spent in a way

Canada Small Business Financing Act   the government's liability and therefore the taxpayers'. The government feels it at election but the taxpayers are the ones who feel it in the long term. The people of my generation are certainly going to be paying for all the boondoggles this government has got us into and for all the debt

Firearms Act   when it should be better labelled “the false hope act”. The opportunity exists for the government to step back from this costly boondoggle. As well intentioned as the legislation might be, the focus should be on real crime prevention and crime fighting initiatives, focusing

Firearms  Mr. Speaker, it is December 1 and the justice minister's billion dollar boondoggle begins. Establishing a firearms registration system has cost over $200 million so far and costs are projected to exceed $1 billion before we even know if the computer set-up works. Canadians have

Supply   it by suggesting that it would be appropriate to conclude such a significant agreement within a 31 day period. Canadians are far more intelligent, far more reflective and take their social programs far more seriously than to be boondoggled by such a very inappropriate and ill conceived notion

Highways   if he will take action, stop boondoggling, stop the delays, stop stonewalling, use the tools as described by the auditor general, take action and stop this deal.

Division No. 298  , it is going to be something that Canadians will not recognize and will not be comfortable with. Will it look like the IRS in the United States, a boondoggle like the IRS that answers to nobody? This is what we are saying. When we get that kind of independence, there is room for abuse

Gun Control   of Justice that Bill Farion, a constituent from Fort Nelson, speaks for thousands when he said in a recent letter that he has “no intention of co-operating with this expensive boondoggle”.

Apec Inquiry  Mr. Speaker, section 45.36 of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act, RSC R-10 is the authority under which I say this person, Heafey, who was appointed by the Liberals, has the ability to terminate this boondoggle, which is all that it is. It is mortally wounded. Put it in its

Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency   is now pulling out and stiffing a creditor for $500,000. How many millions of dollars did ACOA contribute to this boondoggle and where did the money go? Will the minister immediately launch an investigation into this sweetheart deal?

Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act   to the fishery it has been such a boondoggle and expense on taxpayers “let's take 10 seconds and tell Atlantic Canadians that it is over”. Today the Atlantic fisheries are producing more in terms of gross domestic product than they were 10 years ago. The value of exports are double. Our

Taxation   paycheque deductions have been known to end up financing the same type of wasteful government boondoggles supported by Revenue Canada. “If a solicitation for funds is received from Revenue Canada, keep in mind that the entire annual taxation scam originates not with it but in the office

Supply  . It will not come from more boondoggle spending programs, the Mother Hubbard ones he has referred to, that will benefit no Canadians today and few Canadians tomorrow.

Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act   not even have an land forces base in the entire province of British Columbia. Regional fairness would dictate that British Columbia should somehow be just shunted aside. The problem with the equalization payments is not the equalization payments but all the other boondoggles

Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act   should be spent is on developing meaningful infrastructure, not on the boondoggle giveaway patronage laden infrastructure the government runs. It would be the type of infrastructure that would, for example, build a freeway from the eastern part of Canada down to Boston. This would