That the motion be amended by deleting all the words after the word “That” and substituting the following:
“this House not approve the budgetary policy of this government as it:
( a) cuts billions of dollars in infrastructure funding that will cost tens of thousands of jobs in communities across the country;
( b) continues with devastating cuts to healthcare, pensions and Employment Insurance;
( c) provides no new funding for skills training, dictating a federal takeover of responsibility for skill training programs;
( d) pushes forward with cuts to vital environmental programs such as the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy;
( e) fails to address record levels of household debt;
( f) provides no new tax credit for youth job creation;
( g) does nothing to encourage private business to invest the nearly $600 billion in so-called “dead money” currently on their books;
( h) fails to close the 30% funding gap for students in First Nations communities;
( i) forces First Nations communities to impose workfare programs for youth living on reserves;
( j) takes over $2.3 billion out of the pockets of small businesses through changes to the dividend tax credit, without offsetting measures to mitigate this significant tax increase;
( k) cuts support for innovation by eliminating support for labour sponsored venture capital funds;
(l) hobbles the competitiveness of credit unions and thus reduces competition for big banks; and
( m) looks to empty the pockets of Canadians by applying GST/HST to hospital parking.”.