The Economy  , that it would be delayed somewhat but that it would happen. That is a 31.5% punitive tax on hard-working Canadians, mostly pensioners. Do members know what that did to the value of their investments? In one short week it wiped out $35 billion of the hard-earned retirement nest egg

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply   government, a budget that promised little to hard-working Canadians and even less to women. We now have an additional $6 billion in corporate tax cuts that benefit the country's wealthiest, mostly men in profitable corporations. The government itself has admitted that corporate income

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply   that workplaces provide the flexibility that hard-working Canadians need to meet both their work and their family responsibilities. In addition to that, we want Canadians to have peace of mind in knowing that they can care fully for their family members in cases where one is victimized

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply  Madam Speaker, on page 5 of the English version of the throne speech, it states: Balancing the nation's books will not come at the expense of pensioners. ...or by raising taxes on hard-working Canadians. These are simply excuses for a federal government to avoid controlling

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply   that member in particular for having taken on the challenge of putting forward concrete proposals to stop the terrible exploitation of hard-working Canadians by those who extract from them such terrible interest rates on their credit cards.

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply  Mr. Speaker, I believe that the government has misled Canadians and this Parliament when it stated in the throne speech that balancing the nation's books would not come at the expense of pensioners or by raising taxes on hard-working Canadians. However, we know

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, while the Liberals would like to hike the GST and the NDP would increase the job-killing business taxes, we will not raise taxes. Our Conservative government believes in lower taxes. We are leaving more money in the pockets of hard-working Canadians. That is what we

The Budget   speech we said that balancing the nation's books will not come at the expense of pensioners. It will not come by cutting transfer payments for health care and education, or by raising taxes of hard-working Canadians. What we will do is restrain growth in spending by $17.6 million over

The Budget  -being of Canadian small and medium businesses. Year two of the economic action provides the tools necessary to support hard-working Canadians and their businesses. Under this government's watch, small and medium businesses have accounted for an average of 43% of public works

Government Spending  Mr. Speaker, that is right, with plants that cost $2,000 and a doorbell that cost $1,000. Reform Party moralizers are now ready to take their pensions, but despite being in power are refusing to protect the pensions of hard-working Canadians. Serious time for serious crime

Air Transportation  Mr. Speaker, no Prime Minister and no Minister of Finance has done more to cut taxes for hard-working middle-class families than the two sitting in the front row of this legislature. Let us be very clear. For hard-working Canadian families, tax freedom day, that day where

THE BUDGET  , but does nothing for the real victims of the recession, nothing for seniors living in poverty and nothing for half a million hard-working Canadians set to exhaust their employment insurance benefits with no job to go to. There is little new investment in a green jobs economy. New

The Budget   on the economy and getting things done for hard-working Canadians.

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, I will address the issue of taxes because our Conservative government believes in leaving more money in the pockets of hard-working Canadians. It is the right thing to do and we have the records to prove it. Since coming to office in 2006, we have cut over 100

The Budget   living in poverty and nothing for half a million hard-working Canadians whose EI benefits are about to come to an end. I do not support the budget as it is written. We have actually moved an amendment to shelve these corporate tax cuts and use the savings for better priorities like