Supply   taxes and the reform of the taxation system are regularly linked. In my remarks I will expand on these subjects drawing heavily on information which I have obtained as a member of the Standing Committee on Finance on possible changes to the GST and during a recent Fraser Institute

Supply   is the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion? Is it: (a) what the IRS says it is? (b) A good tax lawyer? (c) Five years in jail? (d) All of the above?''. Just to Canadianize that we will substitute Revenue Canada for the IRS, the Internal Revenue Service in the United States, and I

Immigration Act  , is a plague whose potential for death while having been intolerable and heartbreaking has yet to reach its terrible potential. Thousands of Canadians have been afflicted with this condition. Thousands more may be. As tragic and devastating as this disease has been in Canada, AIDS

Charitable And Non-Profit Organization Director Remuneration Disclosure Act   be used in this way. Moreover, when a charity is 80 to 90 per cent government funded the current rules leave an enormous gap. The situation is even worse for non-profit organizations. They are generally not taxable. While non-profit organizations cannot issue official tax receipts

Supply   taxpayers and to consider instead trimming the fat from the government, eliminating tax expenditures which primarily benefit large corporations and wealthy Canadians and collecting on unpaid tax debts owed to the federal government. How do we go about disagreeing with that? We cannot

Members Of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act   touted by the Prime Minister as a great pension reform package that members of Parliament deserve because they are so underpaid. If anything raises the ire of Canadians, it is the scandalously generous pension provisions given to members of Parliament. Even more disturbing

Cn Commercialization Act   taxpayers will have their hands in their pockets. That has been the case ever since day one in the railroad industry in Canada and nothing will likely change that. Canadian National is the result of an amalgamation of a number of smaller money losing operations which about 30 or 40

Supply   were exploited not in Canada but in other countries because of the reluctance of Canadians to take risks. It is unlikely that Canadians are any more risk adverse than anyone else in the world. They will take risks. However, we have always had taxation and fiscal policies

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Finance. Due to recent changes in the Canada-U.S. tax treaty over 81,000 Canadians who receive U.S. social security have witnessed one-quarter of their benefits disappear at the hands of the IRS. Many of these are low income

Supply   the property of Canadians who emigrate and how we tax the property of people who are not Canadians but who hold Canadian property. It is about the thing we call taxable Canadian property, that is, and let us be clear, property that remains taxable in Canada even though the owner may

Excise Tax Act   with the Liberal government because they have been bribed, as earlier speakers have indicated, with our money. The problem is this. The reason this issue raises the ire of Canadians and has raised the ire of the opposition is that the Liberal government has a majority. The majority is in good

Supply  Mr. Speaker, it is a great pleasure to take the floor once again this afternoon to give the Bloc Quebecois, to the sovereignists, to those hard line separatists who spend most of their time rewriting Canadian history a real history lesson. Bloc members should realize one thing

Income Tax Conventions Implementation Act, 1997  . The 1984 U.S.-Canada Income Tax Convention Act allowed 50% of social security payments to Canadian residents to be included for purposes of Canadian taxation. That made a lot of sense because it was the same treatment that U.S. recipients of social security have. That is to say 50

Income Tax Amendments Act, 1997   who are watching to have a better understanding of the debate, is taxes. There is nothing that raises the ire of the Canadian citizen more than the issue of taxes. Having recently gone through an election campaign and all of us in this place having participated in all-candidates

Canada Customs And Revenue Agency Act   of rights with teeth and the creation of an office for taxpayer protection to enforce that act. Furthermore, we really are not that interested in this government's plans for continuing to pluck $160 billion out of the pockets of Canadian taxpayers. We want to see tax relief