Main Estimates, 2002-03  , these close, cozy relations to the government. Where is the impartiality? Where is the merit when one starts to examine in detail who is the recipient of these many, many millions of dollars that are Canadian taxpayer dollars? We see Communication Coffin, Gosselin, Groupe Everest

Pest Control Products Act   of these suggestions and the positive changes we hope to see take place. Unlike the debate earlier today in which the government found itself on the wrong side of an issue, the disability tax credit and having to defend its treatment of disabled persons, we find that this bill is politically

Criminal Code   should be doing time for life, forever. They will be allowed their visitors. Also, they get to eat very well, much better than many hard-working, taxpaying Canadians. But the relatives of the victims can only visit the graves of those who were killed. These arguments have been put

Immigration And Refugee Protection Act   in my riding who were outraged with the federal government's inaction on the question of illegal immigration. This inaction drew the ire of all Canadians right across Canada. Constituents have told me that they believe the federal government is failing them and their families

Budget Implementation Act, 2000   are making less than $50,000 per year. In terms of the new economy, there is no form of taxation that is any more deleterious in terms of its impact on the new economy than the capital gains tax. We are, through our capital gains tax disadvantages, driving entrepreneurs, driving venture

Division No. 1265   on February 11 this year. It is focused on the human dynamics that exist in the country with respect to the rights and obligations that flow from human relationships and the recognition thereof in law. The bill has raised the ire on certain occasions and certainly caused a lot of members

Budget Implementation Act, 2000   that the vast majority of the MPs in the Canadian Alliance, not counting a few of them present here today, basically think along the American tradition. They want to Americanize our country Canada especially with regard to the taxation system and the way we distribute the taxpayers' hard

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

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

Canada Customs And Revenue Agency Act   of a few provinces in eastern Canada. The Canadian Federation of Taxpayers believes that there will be no major savings from this new agency. The federation is certainly well-versed both in terms of tax policy, tax enforcement and also in terms of pointing out inefficiencies

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   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

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, this government's planned proposal to replace Revenue Canada with a mega tax agency is unnecessary, expensive and could become an unaccountable mess like the IRS in the United States. I have a question for the revenue minister. If the public service hates

Canada Customs And Revenue Agency Act   the message that Canadians are not satisfied with the level of fairness and due process in the tax collection system and takes some concrete steps to further entrench and protect taxpayers rights, there is no way we could support a bill which has even a slight potential for spinning out

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