Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act   to flourish and prosper, and as they prosper, jobs and wealth are created. The big deficit we now have, thanks to the new Conservative Party, will hopefully be eliminated. That is why I am supporting this free trade agreement, to generate revenue and bring down the $56 billion deficit. I

Government Operations committee   to spend in the future. I haven't seen Mr. Flaherty's proposed comments, but I guess we're in a situation now where we have $56 billion in deficit and maybe it sounds like he's going to try to rein things in. I can't really comment, as I haven't seen them yet. But in terms of what

Economic Recovery Act (Stimulus)   of surpluses. Then it was $34 billion. Next it was $50 billion. Then it was $56 billion. I do not know what it will be next, but the reliability of the government's deficit forecasts is about the same as the reliability of its statements on the timing of H1N1 flu shot deliveries; in other

Economic Recovery Act (Stimulus)   Motors and is running a $56 billion deficit. I am sure he would not approve. If the government had achieved the majority that it was looking for, I think it would have tried to apply the right wing economic approach to the problem. Fortunately for the people of the country

Economic Recovery Act (stimulus)  Madam Speaker, I should have indicated that I was leading up to the reason we needed a stimulus and the magnitude of the problem we have to deal with, but I could go right to it. We went from everything being rosy to all of a sudden looking, since the fall update, at a $56

Human Resources committee   several billion dollars was taken from the $56 billion that had been set aside and that had come from workers, we still have enough money left to go ahead with this measure, without increasing premiums. If a decision is made to increase premiums, I quite agree with Mr. Céré

Government Operations committee  . By the finance minister's own admission, we are looking at a deficit for this year of about $56 billion. It's somewhat smaller next year. I think there was an effort to try to target this money and also to make sure it was temporary. Those would be trade-offs that the government will have

Canada Post Corporation Act   deficit, which grew to a $50 billion deficit and today is a $56 billion deficit. We cannot count on a government that cannot count.

Economic Recovery Act (stimulus)   billion. In January budget 2009 showed a $34 billion deficit. In June it had ballooned to $50 billion. In September the Minister of Finance came out to Victoria, one of the furthest reaches of our country, to announce that the deficit had ballooned to $56 billion

Economic Recovery Act (stimulus)   the environmental assessment for houses. People had put money in for programs, and suddenly in the middle of the night they were eliminated. The Conservatives have a $56 billion deficit and growing. What is your exit strategy? How do you intend to get out of it?

Economic Recovery Act (stimulus)  Mr. Speaker, what exit strategy does the government have with regard to the $56 billion plus deficit? How does it propose to get out of a fiscal hole that it has dug itself into? I remind the government that it inherited a $12.5 billion surplus when it came to office? Liberals

Economic Recovery Act (stimulus)  Mr. Speaker, the federal government has forecast a $56 billion deficit in the near future. The Bloc has suggested that the taxes of oil companies and banks be raised and that funding for the military sector be cut. Instead, the Conservative government, with the support

Economic Recovery Act (stimulus)  Mr. Speaker, I know that in opposition we can often have it both ways. We can demand that the government spend money and then criticize it when there is a deficit. I would just caution members not to be shrill on the issue of the $56 billion deficit when in fact just months

Economic Recovery Act (stimulus)  Now there's a deficit of $56 billion.

Economic Recovery Act (stimulus)   changes to employment insurance that would help Canadian families. However, we have lost confidence and trust in the government. Let me count the ways. There is a record deficit that was revised from a surplus, from $34 billion to $50 billion to $56 billion in less than a year