What has been the total cost of developing, operating and marketing AECL's slowpoke energy system project from its inception until the present time?
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Questions On The Order Paper November 10th, 1995
What has been the total cost of developing, operating and marketing AECL's slowpoke energy system project from its inception until the present time?
Department Of Health Act November 8th, 1995
Madam Speaker, New Democrats vote no on this motion.
Merchant Navy November 7th, 1995
Mr. Speaker, veterans of the merchant navy who served during wartime provided a vital function in situations where the death rate was as high or higher than in the armed services and where like other veterans they were captured and imprisoned as prisoners of war. Yet for many decades they were treated as second class veterans deprived of many benefits.
Even with the belated passage of the Merchant Navy Veterans Act in 1992, merchant navy veterans were not granted fully equal status with other veterans. The act contains definitions of service in the merchant navy that are more restrictive than for veterans in the other services and therefore denies benefits to some veterans who are clearly entitled to them.
As we approach November 11, the NDP calls on the government to treat veterans of the merchant navy in exactly the same way as it treats other veterans by including them in the War Veterans Allowances Act.
Department Of Health Act November 6th, 1995
New Democrats present in the House will vote against the amendment, Madam Speaker.
National Housing Act November 6th, 1995
Madam Speaker, all real New Democrats will vote no.
Canadian National Railway November 6th, 1995
Mr. Speaker, will the government give a guarantee that the recall date will be honoured and that the recall date is not just a way of appeasing employees?
Will the government answer my first question? Why guarantees for Montreal and no guarantees for Transcona and Winnipeg that have just as much a place in CN as anyone else?
Canadian National Railway November 6th, 1995
Mr. Speaker, the legislation which privatizes CN guarantees that Montreal will always be the headquarters of CN. The Transcona shops have just as proud a place in the history of CN as Montreal does, yet many are worried that Transcona is slated for extinction given the 485 layoffs on Friday last and the 266 before that in September.
My question is for the Deputy Prime Minister or for the Minister of Human Resources Development answering in his capacity as regional minister. Will the minister now, in the interests of regional fairness and national unity, instruct CN either administratively or legislatively to stop the decimation of the Transcona shops, to keep Transcona as CN's main repair shop and to ensure the Transcona work is not siphoned off to CN's wholly owned subsidiary in Montreal, AMF, or anywhere else for that matter? Will the Liberal government give Winnipeg the kind of guarantees that Montreal has received?
The Economy November 1st, 1995
Mr. Speaker, my question is also for the Minister of Finance and concerns the Conference Board of Canada report of a week or so ago, which indicated that productivity and profits are up but that wages are standing still.
Given that this is exactly the kind of economy critics of globalization and free trade predicted would be the case with this new kind of economy, what does the Minister of Finance intend to do about it? Is this the desired state for the Canadian economy? Or, does the government have some plan to make sure that at some point not just profits and not just productivity but wages and the standard of living go up for ordinary Canadians?
National Unity October 31st, 1995
Mr. Speaker, while celebrating the fact that we Canadians remain together in a single country, we must ask ourselves some very important questions. What is a country, really? How did we weaken our political attachment to our country in the past 15 years? How can we renew the values we uphold and our vision of Canadian society?
In this respect, on behalf of the NDP we do not see uncritical decentralization and the offloading of federal responsibilities as a panacea, particularly if it is just a cover for the further dismantling of the very Canada that both Quebecers and non-Quebecers lament the continuing destruction of.
A house divided against itself cannot stand, but even an apparently united house-
-without a foundation of social and economic justice, is a house built on sand.
Medicare October 30th, 1995
Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Deputy Prime Minister.
The Deputy Prime Minister talked earlier about fighting for medicare. I do not doubt the Deputy Prime Minister's commitment to medicare. However, I would like to ask her a question. Do she and the government not see that if this government continues the trend toward unilateral withdrawal of the federal government from the fiscal partnership that medicare also was-it was not just a partnership with respect to standards and services-they will be unable to maintain national standards because they will lose the critical moral edge they need and the Reform Party will win by default?
We have to fund medicare as well as fight for it. When will this government start funding medicare so that we can save it?