Jason Kenney

[Government Contracts, June 2nd, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, no one has ever accused the Leader of the Opposition of letting an untendered government contract to a campaign contributor and a business partner. No one has ever accused the Leader of the Opposition of doing business with convicted criminals and benefiting from it.

I want to ask the Acting Prime Minister, seeing as the man in his stead is not here, how can he—

[Government Contracts, June 2nd, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, why is it that when the Prime Minister threatens to sue people for talking about conflicts of interests outside this House he ends up ducking, dodging and disappearing? Why is it that the Prime Minister expects Canadians to believe that when he receives $15,000 from a constituent and gets a half million dollars in his company from that constituent that a $190,000 untendered government paving contract is an accident?

[Government Contracts, June 2nd, 1999]

There is a little concern over there.

It seems that whenever the Prime Minister is asked some tough questions about his shady business dealings—

[Government Contracts, June 2nd, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, it seems that whenever—

[Government Contracts, June 1st, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, the minister is right. I thought we were going to get a different kind of government. The Liberal red book said: “This erosion of confidence seems to have many causes; some have to do with the behaviour of certain elected politicians, others with an arrogant style of political leadership”.

If we had seen this same pattern under the previous Conservative government, the Liberals would have been crying bloody murder and the Minister of Canadian Heritage would have been jumping over furniture.

Will the Prime Minister tell us how he can excuse himself from this kind of very clear conflict of interest?

[Government Contracts, June 1st, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, let us review the facts. First a friend of the Prime Minister's gives him $15,000 in contributions for his personal re-election campaign. Then he gives another $28,000 to the Liberal Party of Canada. Then he buys a parcel of land from the Prime Minister's numbered company for over $500,000. Lo and behold, the same Mr. Gauthier received a $6.3 million CIDA contract and was subcontracted to do a $190,000 paving job on the Prime Minister's driveway.

If this is not a conflict of interest, just what is a conflict of interest?

[Taxation, May 14th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, it is this minister who is suffering from amnesia because he seems to forget that the government has added 1.2 million taxpayers to the tax rolls, some of whom they took off in the last budget. More people are paying taxes. More low income people below the poverty who are struggling to make ends meet are paying taxes because of the government's reckless approach.

Why does he not follow the lead of the Mike Harris government which will take 600,000 low income taxpayers off the tax rolls? That is real tax relief.

[Calgary Foothills Hospital, May 13th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, I rise to report a shocking story of violence being done to innocent human life, the sanctity of conscience and freedom of the press.

We have recently learned that at the Calgary Foothills hospital there are procedures being performed known as genetic terminations which are really eugenic infanticide. The hospital routinely induces premature labour of mothers whose unborn children are suspected of having some imperfection. These late term babies are delivered only to be left to die without medical attention or nourishment. In one case an attending nurse has described how an apparently viable baby was left for some 12 hours without care until it died.

According to hospital documents that I have obtained, nurses with moral objections are forced to participate in these obscene acts.

In an effort to cover up this scandal the Foothills hospital obtained a court order requiring the magazine that broke this story not to report on its details.

I have asked the attorney general and the Calgary police chief to investigate whether these procedures violate the Criminal Code's homicide provisions and they have agreed to do so.

While there are those in this current culture who would seek to kill the imperfect, infanticide is still against the law.

[Questions On The Order Paper, May 12th, 1999]

In the last year for which information is available, what was, in Nova Scotia: ( a ) the total sales of cigarettes and tobacco; and ( b ) the sales total of “GST” free or zero rated cigarettes and tobacco?

[Ontario Budget, May 5th, 1999]

Mr. Speaker, this is a great day for the taxpayers of Ontario.

Yesterday provincial finance minister Ernie Eves unveiled the last instalment in a tax cutting, job creating economic miracle of the Mike Harris common sense revolution.

Yesterday's budget completed the remarkable turnaround experience by a province which suffered a lost decade of economic decline under the tax and spend mania of the Liberal and NDP governments.

Mike Harris has kept his word to Ontarian voters by cutting taxes for working families by 30%, eliminating the huge provincial deficit by next year, creating over 850,000 new jobs and introducing a taxpayer protection act with teeth, all while increasing health care spending and absorbing the huge transfer cuts of this Liberal government.

Now the Harris team is set to keep Ontario's economy in high gear by delivering a further 20% cut in both property and income taxes.

Even Liberals are joining the common sense bandwagon, with Liberal MPP Annamaria Castrilli crossing the floor to join the Harris team today.

She understands what these Liberals never will: real tax relief leads to hope, growth and opportunity. Four more years of tax cutting government in Ontario, that is what is going to happen in this election.