Canada Transportation Act   and international travel. If these provisions, which are also inherited from our Bill C-44, ultimately help everyday Canadians to more readily understand and determine the total cost of a travelling ticket and the terms and conditions that apply to its purchase, then I will welcome them

International Bridges and Tunnels Act   be willing to give credit where credit is due. At its core, Bill C-3 is the exercising of the federal government's constitutional powers. These are outlined in sections 91(29) and 92(10) of the Constitution Act of 1867. However, for everyday Canadians who are watching, from Cornwall

Federal Accountability Act   with lobbyists, the date and time and frequency of those meetings must be published on a public website. That means everyday Canadians would know which moneyed interests had met with political decision makers. If, for example, a large corporation received an apparently unacceptable government

Child Care   instead of listening to everyday Canadian parents. What parents tell us is that they want the democratic right and support to make their own choices about their own children's child care. On July 1 Canadian parents from all walks of life can look forward to receiving $100 for every

EnerGuide   to 30% and asks, “Why would you cut a program like that? This is a valued program. It is great for the community and great for the country”. We know that the EnerGuide programs were working. The experts know it. Everyday Canadians know it. I guess the only people who don't get

Business of Supply  . It is $5.2 billion in the pockets of everyday Canadians. That is the way that the government makes the standard of living for Canadians better. My question for the hon. member is with regard to some of the biodiesel and ethanol strategies that the government is actually putting forward

Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee   that would have on the charter rights of everyday Canadians who are not part of a political party to participate in the democratic process. If, for example, EGALE organized a rally during an election and spent $30,000 on that rally, could they be prosecuted under such prohibitions? Could

Liberal Party of Canada   it. Instead of respecting the will of Canadians, they continue to threaten to bring down the government. Their threats and irresponsible sabre-rattling show they still put their own party interests above the interests of everyday Canadians. The message from Canadians in the last election

Federal Accountability Act   of the accountability act will be met with ferocious opposition from everyday Canadian voters who demand these changes. I can assure members of the House that I, as a member of Parliament, will be both honest and vigilant in watching for any form of procedural subterfuge that Liberal senators

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply   very little. The new government knows what is important. We are putting the interests of everyday Canadians first. We have a plan and we will deliver. The first priority of our government is to clean up the mess that the previous government left in Ottawa. We will pass the federal

Supply   theft of their hard earned tax dollars, have lost confidence in the government's ability to clean up the mess exposed by the Auditor General and confirmed by Justice Gomery. I want to discuss a few other areas where everyday Canadians from my constituency have contacted me

Government Appointments   for 20 months because the Liberals did not fire him properly the first time. His potential pay out for this Liberal fumble is $3.5 million, more money than many Canadians will make in their entire lifetime. Why is it that when everyday Canadians lose their job, they have to rely

Gasoline Prices  Mr. Speaker, the government can justify hundreds of thousands of dollars for David Dingwall, but nothing for everyday Canadians who are struggling with the high cost of fuel. Despite the so-called big announcement on rebate cheques, farmers, taxi drivers, truckers and the vast

Gasoline Prices   is very nervous because she works the night shift. Government has to look at the well-being of all Canadians. Government has to be able to predict the future. It has to look at the signs and see what is going on in the economic engine of our country. Everyday Canadians feed

An Act to Authorize the Minister of Finance to Make Certain Payments   everyday Canadians a tax cut of $1,000 per year, they could invest that in a RRSP instead of having that money gobbled up by increased government expenditures, which is what we have seen over the last five years to six years in the country. If we gave Canadians an extra $1,000 to keep