Deborah Grey

[Young Offenders Act, March 11th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Justice seems to think that only she and her government know what is good for people and she in fact says that other people just do not understand.

Let me remind the justice minister that the member for Surrey North is a victim of youth crime. He paid a terrible price and he ran for parliament on those grounds.

How can the minister possibly say that the member for Surrey North, or this caucus or anyone across the country who does not agree with her, just does not understand?

[Points Of Order, March 10th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, that was my understanding, but whatever she is quoting as Reform policy is not true. I am wondering if she could table the document so we could look at it.

[Points Of Order, March 10th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, in question period the minister for the status of women quoted from some document and said that I had made some ridiculous remark. I would ask her if she would table that because I do not believe it is true.

[Taxation, March 10th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, this minister has the gall to say that she will not help single income families until double income families get more help first. This is nonsense.

Does the Prime Minister agree with these intolerant views or not?

[Taxation, March 10th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, let me say as a Reform woman I am not in favour of being in the kitchen necessarily, unless I have that choice. When I am at home I am not in the kitchen; I am at Swiss Chalet. So there.

This minister continues to say that men do not stay home with their kids. She continues to insult—

[Taxation, March 10th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, the Secretary of State for the Status of Women has some pretty outrageous things to say about taxing families. She said that anyone who wants to end this discrimination in the tax system just wants to keep women in the kitchen. What a ridiculous thing to say. Her government's policies pit family against family.

Why does this minister use these negative, prejudiced stereotypes to slur stay at home parents?

[Taxation, March 9th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, committees have dealt with this over and over again. The finance minister could have straightened it out in the budget. He has had any number of budgets to correct this and he simply has not done it. We see from every government member that they like to discriminate against stay at home parents.

Mr. Speaker, do not take my word for it. How about the Liberal MP for Durham who in today's Hamilton Spectator said that the whole tax system was discriminatory, that the bottom line was that taxes were too high, period?

If that is true, does the finance minister really think that Canadians will accept more excuses from a committee rather than less taxes?

[Taxation, March 9th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, the finance minister thinks he can just shuffle it off to committee, but we have seen more committees get busy in the House and no one across the country knows what they are doing and nothing seems to get accomplished by them.

By sending it to committee the finance minister is simply admitting that he knows there is something wrong in the system. The committee may say one thing but what will happen tomorrow in the United Nations is that the government will defend discrimination against stay at home parents.

Why cannot the government just admit the obvious, that it discriminates against stay at home parents, plain and simple?

[Taxation, March 9th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, tonight parliament will vote on a Reform motion. I will read it:

—the federal tax system should be reformed to end discrimination against single income families with children.

It is pretty straightforward. It will instil fairness, but the Prime Minister has ordered every Liberal MP to vote against it, no matter what. Ministers were even told to cancel important trips abroad because they are supposed to be here to vote no.

Why is the Prime Minister forcing Liberal MPs to discriminate against stay at home parents?

[Questions On The Order Paper, March 8th, 1999]

Regarding the National Philatelic Centre of Canada Post: ( a ) is Canada Post planning to issue a stamp in honour of Queen Elizbeth and Prince Philip's 50th wedding anniversary; and ( b ) is Canada Post planning to issue a stamp in honour of Prince Charles' 50th birthday?