Pensions   that taxpayer money could buy, a gold plated MP pension plan. Under the plan the Conservative leader would receive $53,000 a year for his 9.9 per cent premium; the Deputy Prime Minister, $49,000 a year. Meanwhile regular Canadians would get $9,000 a year for their 9.9 per cent premium

Employment   the captain of Exxon Valdez being proud of his driving record. Why will the Prime Minister not admit that he has clearly lost touch with regular Canadians who now suffer from his record of broken promises?

Canadian Census   reason that Lew, who just happens to be my husband and I think the greatest guy in the world, as a regular Canadian said: "Let me get my hands on this so I can tell this government exactly what I think about this kind of list making and categorization of people as if we were just

Finance   and people who have fallen on hard times. However, I did not see that in the Prime Minister's responses to questions from regular Canadians last night. Those people have fallen on hard times. I want to talk about these issues one by one. These issues are very important to Canadians

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, $7,000 may not be a lot of money to the millionaires of this world, but it is a lot of money to regular Canadians. Can the finance minister explain to Canadians why one form of child care is worthy of a tax credit while the other is not? Can he explain why his

Goods And Services Tax  Mr. Speaker, perhaps the Prime Minister, instead of referring to the red book, should look at the fourth edition of the blue book, Reform's way of running the country. The Prime Minister knew before the election that the GST was not going to go, yet he pawned it off on regular

The Economy  Mr. Speaker, maybe someone in the finance minister's position does not understand why regular Canadians are so fearful about their economic futures. Canadians want less taxes, not different taxes. I remind the finance minister of his statement in 1990 when he said: "I would

Members Of Parliament Retiringallowances Act   created an insulated world for themselves which shields them from the financial burden regular Canadians are asked to carry. Perhaps one of the most hypocritical elements of the MP pension plan is it allows former parliamentarians who are wealthy to continue to collect an MP pension

Ethics   to draft a code of conduct for MPs and senators, but it has decided to let MPs and senators, under the influence of lobbyists, write their own code of conduct, with no input from regular Canadians. That sounds somewhat like putting Mr. Fox and Mr. Weasel in charge of chicken coop

Social Security Programs   of this year if memory serves me. Over the course of days after that, we found that it was going to be the same old thing, the same old way of doing politics. First we found out that this group was going to be hearing not from regular Canadians but instead from special interest groups who