The Budget  -working Canadians for the years of sacrifice they have made. Instead the government delivered a budget of which the Conservatives are proud. The Liberals delivered $4.9 billion in corporate tax cuts. The Liberals have put $28 billion away in the consolidated revenue fund

Canadian Livestock Industry  . We are rising in the House this evening to yet again examine the failure of the government to protect the interests of hard-working Canadians. It is truly unfortunate that we need to be in this position. I am sure that each and every hon. member would like nothing better than

Budget Implementation Act, 2000   of why the EI overpayment is unfair. It is an excessive tax on workers and employers. When the Canadian Alliance forms the government we will immediately lower EI premiums to the break-even point and stop that unfair taxation on property owners and hard-working Canadians. The Liberal

The Budget   delivered yet another transformative budget. As a newly elected member of Parliament, this is the first budget process I have witnessed and it is impressive to see the balance the finance minister has struck between tax cuts for hard-working Canadians, the creation of opportunities

Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act   to ensure that we get the best value for the taxpayers' dollars. I remind her that there is only one payer: the hard-working Canadians who pay taxes. How do we accomplish that? What the government has tried to do and is doing is to come out with the bill, an element of which is how we

Trade  Mr. Speaker, I find it absolutely shocking that the trade minister yesterday said he would not weep for Canadian jobs lost to cheap labour markets in China and India. Essentially what the minister has said is that he does not care about the hard-working Canadian men and women

Budget Implementation Act, 2004, No. 2   reduction and makes some tax reductions on the one hand, but on the other hand it increases taxes and the take increases every year. Every year the tax take of the government from hard-working Canadian families increases. It has to end. It has to be slowed down and reversed. We can start

Equalization   of the last decade have contributed to the cash shortage, and it is particularly hard on low and middle income families who are paying the price. It is time to put money back into the hands of the hard-working Canadians who earned it.

Finance   Party remains open to supporting budget 2005 if it contains an immediate pay hike for hard-working Canadians through a program of lower taxes, a longer term standard of living strategy to ensure that social programs are adequately funded during the upcoming demographic crunch

Finance  , just over three months ago, Canadians would get some of that $11 billion back in the form of tax relief, or as I prefer to call it, a pay increase. Specifically the throne speech amendments, which government MPs voted to support, called for tax cuts for hard-working Canadians

Budget Implementation Act, 2004, No. 2   repayment plan, and then collect that much in taxes. If they put the money back in the pockets of low and middle income Canadians, if they gave hard-working Canadians a little more disposable income, gave them some freedom and choices as to how to spend that money, the economy would

Main Estimates, 2004-05   to pay is coming from the pockets of hard-working Canadian taxpayers. To that end a very strong message is being sent, a strong message that addresses concerns that the Prime Minister used to hold over the democratic deficit, concerns that Canadians should have over the way in which

Auditor General Act   underestimates the budget balance. That is a total of $86 billion. Also, other speakers have referred to the sponsorship scandal, which is in the order of $250 million. On the one hand, we have seen the mismanagement of funds from hard-working Canadian taxpayers across the country, funds

Justice   to Canadians why he believes judges deserve pay raises so far beyond that of other hard-working Canadians?

Committees of the House   from which these hard working Canadians came from. The most visually impacting thing that I saw was the people themselves and a management team which showed deep concern for its people. I saw an owner who was gravely worried, not only for his own future but for the workers that he