Physician Assisted Suicide  Mr. Speaker, I would like to reiterate I am actually speaking of a referendum at election time which of course defrays the cost. The National Referendum Act covers more than constitutional matters. Surely the Prime Minister must have known that when he pushed the Right Hon. Joe

Physician Assisted Suicide  Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Prime Minister. My understanding is that the Prime Minister and indeed his party supported and actually pushed the previous government to enact the National Referendum Act in 1992, a special situation. Yet in his answer to me yesterday he

Prince Edward Island Fixed Link   of the main points I consider important from my particular perspective. Our government made it clear during the election campaign and in the recent throne speech that putting Canadians back to work is the number one economic, political and social challenge facing this country. We

Prince Edward Island Fixed Link   to remind him of the Constitution Act, 1791, which established the foundation for the system of parliamentary representation. The people who elected Reform Party members, or you or us in the Bloc Quebecois, know very well that the relevancy of the remarks we have to make in this House

Income Tax Act  , the Bloc Quebecois maintained throughout the election campaign that the federal government should withdraw from certain areas and leave responsibility for program administration up to the provinces. We have spoken at length about occupational training. This is a good example of an area

Supply   Canadians back to work. In the program we put forward during the election campaign we made it very clear we had to act in a responsible fashion. We showed where we were going to make additional investments to get Canadians back to work and where we would have to make additional cuts. We

Supply   are suffering some of these problems today. It is time for the House of Commons to take charge of spending in this country. It is time for elected members to begin to control the public service. Let me list a few broad general principles that will guide this. I take my lead from

Cigarette Smuggling   feel that they do not have a problem, they will have to live with the consequences of their actions. Every government was aware of what we wanted to do. We were all losing billions of dollars as a result of that. Therefore this government decided to act. If other governments want

Supply   do not think hon. members opposite understood the Bloc's motion. I think they are acting irresponsibly by rejecting out of hand a very responsible request, a request made repeatedly by the Bloc Quebecois since the morning of October 26, and I think the people who elected

Income Tax Act   is not always better. There is a saying in English: No taxation without representation. With that level of taxation, people have been represented to death. I think they gave their verdict about that in the last election. The fact is that the government is still facing a deficit and has

Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements And Federal Post-Secondary Education And Health Contributions Act   it. It just seems natural that people change governments. They elect another government, either a Liberal or a Tory government and it turns the whole place into a financial disaster. Then it gets tossed out and in comes the CCF or the NDP again. It gets everything in order over a period

Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements And Federal Post-Secondary Education And Health Contributions Act   of the Bloc Quebecois, elected by 50 per cent of the population of Quebec.

Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements And Federal Post-Secondary Education And Health Contributions Act   transfers to provinces destabilize Quebec's finances. To make things worse, the federal government is not even able to control its deficit. I want to quote Mr. Jean Campeau who, when he came to my riding during the election campaign, said: "There was a time when Quebec wondered

Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements And Federal Post-Secondary Education And Health Contributions Act   it because it never suited us. That is why we in Quebec decided that there was no longer any point in coming here to fight with federalist members. Thus Quebecers elected sovereigntists because, as I was just saying, they no longer want to change the plumbing; they want to change house

West Coast Ports Operations Act, 1994   in the process that we as elected representatives are putting in place to settle this dispute. If the test is not only actual bias but a perception of bias, not only justice being done but being seen to be done, this legislation fails that test. I want to make it very clear that I have