Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply   regular Canadians are cleaning up, they are changing their light bulbs, changing cars that they are driving and they are taking transit. Is that not exactly what the government has been encouraging? Is she not missing the point? Did the government not take the initiative to encourage

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply  . Regular Canadians across this country are concerned with the wrong-headed direction that regime is taking us in, by walking away from Kyoto and embarrassing us internationally in the process, by having no strategy whatsoever on child poverty and no real interest. There is a void

Income Trusts  . The thugs with CAITI are the ones who influence him. Regular Canadians, people who pay taxes and rely on the people in this House to do their jobs and stand up for them, are the ones who need tax fairness. The member should stand up for them. I would like to know why he does not.

Status of Women committee  Thank you. The suicide rate I was referring to is for teenage suicide. And I didn't say 18% or 17%; I said 17 times higher than the regular Canadian numbers. It's just outrageous. There are all sorts of theories. Most of them are boys. Hunting is changing in the north due

Status of Women committee   more...and this is an offer to help, if you're interested in getting the right stats out there. Everything you said about that absolutely resonates with us. I'll just give you one example: teenage suicide. People say aboriginal teenage suicide is seven times higher than regular

Citizenship and Immigration committee   a devastating experience, and their life starts falling apart. They are the ones left looking for the sorts of records that previous witnesses have been talking about. They're left with trying to do things no regular Canadian knows how to do. This needs to be fundamentally shifted. You're

Health  Mr. Speaker, skyrocketing drug costs hurt families, businesses and governments. Regular Canadians spend almost $4 billion a year out of their own pockets on prescription drugs, businesses spend about $7 billion and governments spend $9 billion. When drug costs go up, everybody

Committees of the House   governments have simply said, “No, we are not standing up for Canadian interests, unless it is corporate CEOs or corporate lawyers who are represented. We are not going to do anything to help the Canadian middle class”. Regular Canadians have seen their real income fall. The Conservative

Business of Supply   the Liberals, only a select group would benefit. Anyone looking for something other than a regulated, nine to five, child care space got nothing. Regular Canadian families got nothing from the Liberals. That was the old Liberals' plan. Since then, we have had an election where that plan

Human Resources committee   would yet be significantly impacted by this legislation. How would regular Canadians be impacted indirectly by the impacts that would happen to your organization because of a strike?

Prebudget Consultations   in the next budget. The theme of the budget was “Enhancing Canada's competitiveness and productivity”. I will say a couple of word about the theme of our consultations, competitiveness and productivity. In a way, regular Canadians do not lay awake at night wondering about Canada's

The Economy   George W. Bush proud. The government's update laments the fact that those poor souls who are earning more than $120,000 are treated unfairly. Imagine that. Why do the Conservatives always favour the six figure income earners over regular Canadians?

Industry committee  Currently there is an ability to import vehicles directly into Canada beyond the regular Canadian dealership network. In fact there is a government-supported website, which I was looking at yesterday, where they partner with Canadian Tire, which does the vehicle inspection

Citizenship and Immigration committee   supports. I would argue that most regular Canadians would say that people should line up. If they want to come into this country, come in by regular means, especially when we have 800,000 people waiting to get here right now in the waiting list trying to come here by regular means.

Finance committee  I appreciate that, and it was very helpful. Ms. Brown, I was particularly interested in the innovations taking place in digital media. I wonder if you could explain to a regular Canadian who doesn't know a whole lot about this--and it might be me--how will this will benefit