Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply   is not wasting hundreds of millions of dollars in sponsorship scandals. Accountability is not wasting $500 million in penalties for cancelling helicopter deals. Accountability is understanding that this is real money we are talking about, money from hard-working Canadians. Imagine

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply   and transparency in the decision making process. Hard-working Canadians deserve to know where and how their money is being spent. I want to congratulate the Prime Minister, all premiers, all ministers of health, the Minister of Health, the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, the Minister

Agriculture   of agriculture in Tuesday's throne speech, is what areas of Canada this crisis actually affects. The government obviously needs a quick and valuable lesson in geography. Contrary to Liberal beliefs, there is life in rural Canada. There are hard-working Canadians who do live north of highway

Budget Implementation Act, 1999   is this burden. The burden consists of federal income tax, payroll taxes, provincial taxes, municipal taxes, GST, PST, and the recent phenomenon of user fees, which I call hidden taxes. Let me dwell on some real examples of what hard working Canadians are facing. Dan Ticcapaugh

Income Tax Act   is a sector that contributes significantly to our economy. In 2002 alone, forestry exports contributed more than $32 billion to our economy and our trade surplus. Today more than 350,000 hard-working Canadians are directly employed in this sector. The core of the bill would give a special

Employment Insurance  , but that will buy a lot of groceries for hard working Canadian families. Why does the Prime Minister and the finance minister not simply do the right thing and give hard working Canadians their hard earned money back? Why not?

Supply  , stole, from the residents of my riding. Some 12,000 hard-working Canadians have been stiffed by this corrupt government. I bet they cannot wait to let the Liberals know what they think of them in the next election. My constituents are demanding overall accountability and an end

Supply   is responsible and should now be held to account. Summing up her report, Sheila Fraser said that we needed to ask two important questions. Who authorized the payments and who benefited? We know who did not benefit: hard-working Canadians who every year, in trust, send their hard-earned

Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act   in this case. I am optimistic that if my colleagues from all parties are free to vote their conscience on the bill, they will do the right thing and put the interests of hard-working Canadians first, ahead of the banks and other secured creditors. (Motions deemed adopted, bill read

Committees of the House  Madam Speaker, it is good to have the opportunity to address this issue. The issue certainly has the attention of hard-working Canadians whose tax dollars go into the public purse and who sometimes have grave concerns over what happens with those tax dollars once

Governor General  -equipped troops stationed in Afghanistan. Yet, as if by magic, the government has come up with extra money for the Governor General and her cronies to traipse across the northern hemisphere. This trip is unnecessary and insensitive to the needs of hard working Canadians. The elites

National Child Day   combined. This causes a great deal of anxiety and pain to hard working Canadians. This situation does not need to exist nor should it exist. When will this government wake up, get its hands out of the pockets of hard working Canadian families and give them their money back? Through

Employment Insurance  , but they must be done in a way that is fair to the only source of revenue in the country, hard working Canadians. The government really must be serious about this change. The parliamentary secretary said in the debate that the new hires program waives or does not collect the UI premiums

Supply   took $705 million out of the pockets of hard-working Canadians. The Canadian Alliance believes that taxes which are imposed for a specific purpose, like this deficit fighting tax, should be used for that purpose alone and removed when no longer required, as in this case. The former

Public Safety Act, 2002   of their privacy for additional security. I would say respectfully back to her that for a lot of hard-working Canadians that may in fact be a reality. However it is even more incumbent on those who Canadians elect to places and chambers, like the House of Commons, the legislators