Budget Implementation Act, 2000   social programs that Canadians care about, such as our health care system, in favour of handing money to their political friends. That is tax money, I might add, paid by hard working Canadian families. I would also like to address the amendment to the Excise Tax Act to allow

Modernization Of Benefits And Obligations Act   in the bill? The fact is that most of the statutes in the bill dealing with benefits relate to pensions. We believe that hard working Canadians should be able to provide for and indeed be encouraged to provide for their common law partners, whether opposite sex or same sex. The bill has

Supply   working Canadians are desperately trying to raise public awareness to the serious problems facing their industry. I think most Canadians now understand the situation. Perhaps the only Canadians who were not moved by this public display are the members of the Liberal government who

Supply   as labour market information developed by the local HRDC offices. Decisions as to where transitional jobs funds were allocated were based on a real need to help hard-working Canadians adjust to the new EI program. After all, hon. members will agree that the goal of government programs

The Budget   of this letter to Finance Minister Paul Martin and the Prime Minister. They obviously don't live in the real world. I do and I don't like it. How do we pick a winner from all these? There are no real winners, only hard working Canadians who lose out to a finance minister who promises tax

Fuel Taxes  Mr. Speaker, I rise today on behalf of the people of Beauséjour—Petitcodiac who are irate at the high gas and fuel prices. It would seem that the federal government is once again turning its back on hard-working Canadians. Not only has the high fuel tax hurt the trucking

Veterans Health Care   businesses, but for hard working Canadians as well. We really hope that will be the case. We somehow doubt it, but we hope that will be the case. I am going to anticipate part of what the answer of my colleague will be: that we have low taxes, the minister has reduced taxes, everything

Shipbuilding Act, 1999  . The costs to the taxpayer are included in that. As I said at the beginning, given my present analysis I will be voting against the bill because of the very broad principle that I do not think the government should have the ability to take money out of the pockets of hard-working

Taxation   took home about $1,200, a 49% tax bite. I want to ask the finance minister a very simple question. When is he going to give people like Jean, hard working Canadians, a tax break? When is he going to do that?

Speech From The Throne   in that throne speech. That is a major issue for many hard working Canadians in the agricultural field and it affects all of us. It has neglected to talk about the airline industry, as was just pointed out by my colleague for Calgary Centre. It has failed to talk about immigration

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, the government's balanced approach has raised taxes 60 times in the last 6 years. Revenues have grown by over $40 billion a year. The surplus has never been bigger. For all our hard work, Canadian taxpayers get a health care system in jeopardy, increased student

The Budget   is that Canadians have a personal and collective responsibility to care and provide for the basic needs of people who are unable to care and provide for themselves. I would submit that in this budget the government has failed. Not only is it taking far more from the pockets of hard-working

The Budget   out of the EI fund that it is not entitled to. It is simply not entitled to it. Why does it not just give it back? One thing that really aggravates hard working Canadians is the war on the two parent, single income family begun many years ago by the hero of the Liberal Party

Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act   but they certainly make free with the money that we work to earn. This involves large amounts of the money earned by hard working Canadian taxpayers. That is the reason it is a very important debate. However, the government has decided to cut off debate on the spending of billions of dollars

Taxation   of the Minister of Finance. It is time that he was held accountable for bilking so many hard working Canadians out of billions of dollars every year”.