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Taxation October 29th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, for six years the Reform Party has stood in the House and demanded that the government cut taxes. Its standard response is “We are doing it”. All the while it has been raising taxes for Canadians every year.
The Toronto-Dominion Bank is only the latest to agree with us, that the government has been gouging Canadian taxpayers.
Why does the government continue to take more and more and more taxes from Canadian workers and businesses every year? Why does it do it?
Employment Insurance October 28th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, if the finance minister would take off his blinders when he reads Reform material he would get it right. He did not get it right there.
The EI surplus is not his, but he just does not get that. What he wants to do is give Canadians a drop of blood in one arm and still rip off a pint of blood from the other arm.
Why will the finance minister not listen to his chief actuary? He will not listen to us, why does he not listen to the chief actuary, drop EI premiums to $2.05 and give every Canadian worker a $350 a year tax break? Why will he not do that? What is the problem?
Employment Insurance October 28th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, the chief actuary said that EI premiums could be cut to $2.05 and still provide for a rainy day fund. But, no, the Minister of Finance will stop at $2.40. He is still determined to rip off Canadian workers and businesses by about $6 billion a year.
Why will the finance minister not listen to the government's chief actuary, reduce EI premiums to $2.05 and give every Canadian family about an $800 a year tax break to put back into the economy?
Taxation October 27th, 1999
I will tell you where they are ahead, Mr. Speaker. They are at the head of the class for the highest personal income taxes of all G-7 countries. That is where they are ahead.
They say that they are saving the EI fund for a rainy day. We better go home and start building our ark because there is a heck of a flood coming. There is no doubt about that.
I have a question for the finance minister. With his $21 billion surplus, what is his problem? The auditor general says that he does not like what he is doing. The money is not his. Why does he not just give it back to the people whom he took it from?
Taxation October 27th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, it is getting pretty thick in here.
The government is sitting on a $21 billion EI surplus while the finance minister pursues his favourite pastime, and that is picking the pockets of Canadian workers and businesses. At the same time those workers and businesses are struggling to making ends meet under this Liberal tax regime.
Why does the finance minister not just do the right thing and return the EI surplus, which belongs to the workers and businesses, in the form of tax relief and give Canadians a break for a change?
Child Pornography October 25th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, the Liberal member for Winnipeg South has demonstrated the arrogance and disdain toward decent law-abiding citizens that is the hallmark of the Liberal government.
The Canada Family Action Coalition, decent concerned Canadians, is pleading for the government to take parliamentary action against the possession of child pornography and the perverts who are part of this disgusting practice.
How did the member for Winnipeg South respond? He said “Protests from groups such as this coalition contribute to a lynch mob mentality that does not produce results”. What a shocking display of arrogance.
The Canada Family Action Coalition is comprised of decent Canadians who simply want to protect our society from child porn predators, obviously something the member for Winnipeg South cares little about.
Speech From The Throne October 14th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague, the Reform Party finance critic, for his excellent presentation in debate today.
I would like him to centre in on one thing which I think is of a huge concern to Canadian families. That is the shrinking disposable income in the household money they are able to spend and how it has decreased since this Liberal government came to power in 1993. Also, perhaps the member could explain to us what that extra tax means in the lives of Canadian families.
Speech From The Throne October 14th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, there must be many Canadians who voted for the Liberal Party that are feeling pretty embarrassed right now that the member would stand to defend the disgusting display of art or excuse for art that was just talked about by my colleague from Calgary.
The Liberal member stood to defend spending on that trash that she refers to as art and a good investment. She owes Canadians a huge apology for her confirmation that taxpayers dollars were spent on that kind of disgusting culture and art, as she referred to it. She probably owes an apology to some of her colleagues that were not very pleased with her response to the member from Calgary.
Supply June 3rd, 1999
Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order.
During the debate there is no member of the Reform Party, the official opposition, since we came to this place in 1989, who has ever had the disrespect to call anybody in the House a racist. That is the lowest form of insult in my opinion. For the member to suggest in any way—
Supply June 3rd, 1999
Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. It is my understanding that when members rise in the House in order to be recognized for anything they may say they must be in their place.
The member from Port Coquitlam was not in his place. Therefore I believe that the Speaker is in order to request a withdrawal, at the very least, while the member is seated in his place. He uttered the word racist on two occasions and continues to.