The Budget  Madam Speaker, the hon. mentioned in his speech that his government was not a tax and spend government, yet his government has increased payroll taxes and run a $56 billion deficit. It will also increase spending on the building of prisons. How does the hon. member reconcile

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, to begin with, I will not get into talking about Mr. Mulroney, Airbus and scandals, because what Canadians want us to do is talk about serious issues such as the $56 billion deficit and what is the plan. Just to remind the hon. member, with all due respect, his

The Budget   with a $56 billion deficit. When we add that up, it works out to over $70 billion in three and a half years that we have lost. That is really good management. She talked about Clearwater and tourism. Why has her government punished the tourism industry? I was the parliamentary secretary

THE BUDGET   the lights on”. The government has put in some money but that is just crumbs. If we are to invest and if the government is putting us in the whole to the tune of $56 billion or $60 billion, let us do it right.

The Economy  , we were told that there would be no deficit. Later, the deficit was expected to be somewhere in the neighbourhood of $34 billion. Now, that amount has reached $55 or $56 billion. This goes to show that the Conservatives have made it a habit, not only to resort to subterfuge

House debate   the answer before asking the question. This is a minimal expense considering the annual federal budget, a mere drop in the ocean. Employment insurance is sufficiently well funded by workers to enable families who suffer such a traumatic event to receive benefits. Considering the $56

Government Operations committee   and help us understand whether you are really creating jobs and will therefore get us out of the $56 billion deficit, because Canadians look at it and say, “Okay, I am willing to take on the deficit if I can see a way out of it.” In your projections, can you see a way out of the deficit

Government Operations committee  To answer your questions, a big part of the government's plan to wind down the deficit is to ensure that the plan is temporary and winds down as planned. Just doing that reduces the deficit from $56 billion to something like $27 billion.

Government Operations committee  In September, the government put out a fiscal projection, and we think we are still on track. Under those projections, the current year's deficit of roughly $56 billion is projected to fall to $27 billion by 2011-12. That reflects a resumption of economic growth and also assumes

Disposition of an Act to amend the Excise Tax Act  Mr. Speaker, I really welcome this question because it speaks to the heart of what we have been saying in the House. The federal government, at a time that it has a deficit of $56 billion, is nonetheless spending $4.3 billion to bribe Ontarians with their own tax money, so

Fairness for the Self-Employed Act   to her, but she obviously should have received advice from the member for Mississauga South. He would have straightened her out on this issue. The fact of the matter is that this is the Liberal Party that stole $56 billion from the EI program, put it into general revenues—

Disposition of an Act to amend the Excise Tax Act   since then. We had 10 years of surpluses, low interest rates, and high employment. Now it just seems we are right back to where we were: deficit at $56 billion, interest rates are increasing, and unemployment is double digit. I will put the question to the member. Just what went

Disposition of an Act to amend the Excise Tax Act   in and they inherited the best debt situation in the whole of the G7 by a country mile. They squandered that surplus before the recession hit. They turned it into a deficit. Now once again, we have a record Canadian, ugly, Conservative deficit, this time of $56 billion. I suspect we, at some point

Public Accounts committee   is that we have an accumulated deficit of $56 billion this year, and maybe $44 billion in the coming year, which might take us back. Thankfully, I think Canadians know and appreciate that actually $40 billion was paid off prior to this happening--the crunch, I think you said, in March

Public Accounts committee  I can answer that. The debt has decreased by approximately $100 billion over the last 10 years. The government foresees a deficit of about $56 billion for the current fiscal year and approximately $44 billion for 2010-2011. Thereafter, forecasts show that deficits will decrease