Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, this particular subject, the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, is one where we are seeing the start of many cuts that will be made by the government. This year's budget is one that does not really have a future to it. It is a budget that is holding the status quo on a n

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, this place had an emergency debate that went until midnight the other night on the very subject. It really goes to the point that I made earlier about the success of a country. It is really not an economic measure. It is a measure of the health and well-being of its

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I am happy to speak to the budget bill today. When we talk about the budget, we have to talk numbers. Here are some numbers and some facts. In September 2008, the Minister of Finance said that the country had not dipped into a deficit and that we were still running

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to go back to the Aboriginal Healing Foundation. To my community and communities in the Northwest Territories, this is an issue that has stood out in this budget as being one that—

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I listened with interest to the hon. member's speech. I think he forgets the circumstances in which we found ourselves in 2008 and the meltdown. The result of that was that the organizations of states got together, recognizing the drastic condition we were in, to im

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the hon. member for asking me the question, but I cannot believe that this question is actually being asked. It is fine that it has been asked during question period. The example of using any other country in the G7, no matter what other country has

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for a very good speech on Bill C-9. I want to ask the member about the type of thinking that the government must be engaging in that causes a government in a minority situation to introduce an 800-page bill. I have been in this business

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, it is a good question. I will try to be a member of the government and respond by saying perhaps the reason that it put all these items in there is so we can have a fulsome debate, have all the finance members debate. I am on the finance committee and, seeing how we

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to get the member's comments on some of the larger economic issues in front of us. The Conservatives are claiming that this country is doing well with its banks. The record through the 1990s shows that the NDP stood up vociferously against deregulation of the

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Order, please. The hon. member for Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel.

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, regarding the first part of the hon. member's question regarding the banks, he has got to look at it the other way. There was only one person who decided to maintain regulation in the banking sector, making sure there would not be any mergers and making sure Canada's

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Thirteen strong years.

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Thirteen strong years. Mr. Speaker, because of the interruption, I forget what the second part of this question was, so I would like to defer that to a later date.

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I basically want to follow up on the question of the member for Western Arctic about the Liberal Party and the Liberal leader's new-found embracement of keeping corporate taxes where they are and not lowering them any further, when in fact it was his party under the

Jobs and Economic Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, once again I would like to thank the NDP for supporting our previous tax policy and continuing to do so. It just means that the NDP wants to see us in power that much faster, if they agree with our tax policies. We are not sure when we will take over, so if that were