Excise Tax Act  I am really confused that members from the Atlantic provinces are willing to accept this job killing situation. That is what is happening. It is killing jobs. Those who are making these statements are high-fluential people.

Canada Pension Plan  Mr. Speaker, higher job killing premiums are the cornerstone of the Liberal reform of the Canada pension plan. Lower job creating premiums for employment insurance are overdue and demanded by nearly everyone except the Minister of Finance.

Committee Of The Whole  We would create job opportunities through a capital gains tax cut of one-half of what is now being paid, down to 37.5 per cent. We would reduce job killing payroll taxes by reducing the employer's contribution to UI by 28 per cent. We would remove the surtax and move toward a simplified flat tax. What do Canadian families care about?

Committee Of The Whole  We would cut the employers unemployment insurance premium by 28 per cent, thereby reducing the job killing payroll taxes. We would extend the $3,000 to $5,000 child care deduction to all parents including those who care for their children at home. It is a matter of coming up with new ideas.

Liberal Government Policies  The Reform Party is committed to giving Canadians a smaller, more efficient government and to slashing job-killing red tape.

Taxation  Can the minister say extortion? Why is the finance minister now resorting to strong arm tactics and job killing taxation policies to coerce the provinces into this bogus harmonization plan?

Taxation  Is the finance minister so desperate now to force a harmonization agreement that he is prepared to make these small businesses an offer they cannot refuse if they want to save their industries from job killing taxation measures? Is that real Liberal leadership?

Taxation  Meanwhile dealers employ people to sell used goods, from cars at auctions, to stamps, to furniture, to RVs and boats, and all of those industries are threatened. Why is the finance minister gutting jobs in the used goods industry by piling job killing GST on GST?

Taxation  Since the government came to power it has raised taxes $10.5 billion, mostly through these kinds of sneaky back door schemes. How does the finance minister reconcile these job killing tax promises with his own government's red book promise to make jobs the number one priority of his government and his own budget promise not to raise taxes?

The Economy  The government's policy has driven the unemployment rate up and the Governor of the Bank of Canada has told us why: interest rate policies have kept the economy in a low growth vice to the point where we are on the verge of a catastrophic deflation. In opposition the Liberal Party condemned the job killing policies of former Bank of Canada Governor John Crow. Is it not time the finance minister ate some crow, admitted that he has been supporting the same job killing policies and instructed the Bank of Canada to work for sustainable economic growth, not against an imaginary inflation?

Employment Insurance Act  As to the insurance program, it is clear to us that it is a social program reform done at the expense of the neediest in our society, that is the unemployed, welfare recipients, the young, women and new entrants. On the whole, the unemployment insurance reform, as proposed, is unfair, regressive, job-killing and poverty-inducing. Eligibility requirements have been tightened. In order to be eligible to the program, people now have to work 420 and 700 hours, instead of 180 and 300 hours, more than double what it was.

Budget Implementation Bill, 1996  You have to pay the 3 per cent to the government in the form of a contribution to UI". This is why it is widely known and has been given the name by the government of a job killing tax. Any time that the government legislates increases in the cost of labour which have not been negotiated in the labour market, it raises the cost of labour and is therefore detrimental to employment.

Borrowing Authority Act, 1996-97  Chairman, I did not hear about any systematic objective measure being put forward for the workers who are complaining about this regressive job-killing tax. When is the government going back to the system that existed since the inception of the unemployment insurance system, namely, that the premiums would be lowered in order to limit the accumulation of funds.

Employment Insurance  This money belongs to the UI system and therefore to Canadian workers and employers. When will the government reduce the regressive, job killing UI premiums on Canadian workers and employers?

Social Security Programs  When one pays people so much that it is more attractive to sit at home than to work, when one subsidizes farmers to grow crops that the world does not need, when one gives out grants to business and special interest groups one produces a dependency that kills jobs, kills initiative and kills individual responsibility. When I left New Zealand in 1979 to emigrate to Canada, I left a socialist country very close to bankruptcy. The writing was on the wall there just as it is here in Canada today.