Public Safety committee  I have a point of order, Mr. Chair. I would say that the $56 billion deficit of this government is a theft from my grandchildren.

Canada Labour Code   are contributing enough to EI to allow families affected by such traumatic events to collect benefits. The government does not pay into EI. The $56 billion surplus that simply vanished from the EI fund makes the low cost of the bill all the more obvious. It is clear that if the government

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply   taught at a business school, I understand that we must slay our country's biggest deficit in history, $56 billion. We must confront this brutal fact while retaining unwavering faith that we will prevail in the end. However we cannot do it by destroying what makes us Canadian

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply  , is that it provided nothing in any additional money. For the record, the money that is being transferred is the 2004-05 allocation of $56 billion by a Liberal government over a 10-year plan. He can even read the paper today. It confirms it. He said that the government wants to keep more money

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply   740 words last year to set the stage for its $56-billion deficit. Yesterday it needed more than 6,000 words to prepare us for the next stage. Yet we still have only the vaguest notion of what specific actions will be taken to get Canada's economy back in balance. The Speech from

Business of Supply   our belts to get out of this $56 billion Conservative-made deficit, the public servants who deliver these important services cannot bear the entire burden. The Conservatives should start by cutting their own wasteful spending, like the hundreds of millions in partisan economic

Business of Supply   then changed his mind and predicted a $39 billion deficit, only to change his mind again and predict a $56 billion deficit. So much for financial credibility. The government was the only one surprised by this deficit, and the worst thing is that it is trying to download this deficit onto

Business of Supply   it, disclose it, do not hide it, do not cover it but put it out on the table. One member was talking about a $56-billion projected deficit for the current fiscal year, which ends March 31, and we have a five-year budget that is going to almost balance by that time. However, the budget

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to be given the opportunity to rise on this matter. We all acknowledge that Canada now is in a very difficult situation financially. The Conservatives have run up a $56 billion deficit, the largest deficit in Canada's history, after inheriting

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to have the opportunity to following up on my colleague's comments and I am pleased to speak to this opposition day motion. With a record $56 billion deficit on the books, the Conservative government has indeed begun to preach restraint. We heard

The Economy   back to November 2008 when with that highly discredited economic statement by the government, we may recall that the finance minister was predicting nothing but surpluses; surpluses forever and then he went to a $25 billion, $32 billion, $56 billion deficit. The Parliamentary

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply  Madam Speaker, right now we are facing the largest deficit in Canada's history, $54 billion or $56 billion, although the Parliamentary Budget Officer says that it is even higher. The only thing we have really seen in the way of austerity is the Treasury Board President saying

The Budget   created. They started with $13 billion. It went to $36 billion, then $50 billion and then $56 billion. Who knows where it is going to end up? It is a bouncing ball.

THE BUDGET  Madam Speaker, I can tell the hon. member one thing we are not going to do. As a small businessperson for 38 years, I was one of those people who paid into employer deductions as did my employees. There was a surplus created of $56 billion in a dedicated account, and what

THE BUDGET   because that is their bent, to shift taxes from corporations onto the working people of the country. The government continues to drive the country deeper into debt. We are now at $56 billion in this past budget. It gives tax cuts to profitable corporations, in fact $21 billion since