Division No. 298   taxpayers and people who deal with this organization want most is accountability and a fair system which a lot of taxpayers feel is not there. The conditions attached to the revenue collected in payroll taxes and GST seem to indicate that people are not treated equally and fairly

Canada Customs And Revenue Agency Act   to have the taxation data centre for western Canada in my riding. Many hundreds of Canadians work there, many full time as well as part time early in the spring when people's tax returns are due. I was recently there to participate with many of the workers, hundreds of them again

Canada Customs And Revenue Agency Act  , law-abiding, taxpaying Canadian citizens who pay what is rightfully and justly owed to Revenue Canada. It is my responsibility to speak on behalf of my constituents. I do so. The people in the constituency of Kootenay—Columbia have to know that as their member of parliament I am

Canada Customs And Revenue Agency Act  Madam Speaker, I am glad to speak to Bill C-43, the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency Act, an act that affects all Canadians and is extremely important to the House as taxation is the primary reason for the existence of government. I would like to change the direction

Taxpayers' Rights   of rights and an office for the taxpayers' protection. The government needs to adopt this proposal so Canadians such as the Stephan family are protected from the summary treatment and abusive actions of CCRA agents. Without enacting a strong taxpayers' bill of rights, the CCRA could

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

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

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

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

Canada Customs And Revenue Agency Act  Mr. Speaker, I listened with interest all day to members talking on this bill. It was a little humourous to hear some members talking about how Canadians cheerfully pay their taxes. I was thinking about my last trip home when somebody opened a letter from Revenue Canada

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, this budget is a disappointment. It raises ire and promises the worst. This budget is a disappointment because, once again, the unemployed are footing the bill. They will be paying for federal generosity, because the employment insurance fund will remain

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