Income Support Program for Older Workers   of people, hard-working Canadians, who are unable to secure employment in today's difficult job market. Any and all governments have a responsibility and an obligation to ensure that Canada's system of support for older workers addresses all of their needs. We need to look at a system

Income Support Program for Older Workers  -working Canadians. We expect this measure to help approximately 190,000 long-term workers. There is yet another program under EI that has received additional support under our economic action plan, namely, work-sharing. It helps to protect jobs that would otherwise be lost. The work

Finance committee   Canada, certain short lines or privately owned rail lines are in danger of closing. These lines are used to ship goods, most of which are produced by hard-working Canadians. Some of these lines are used by large multinational companies. Many producers in my riding use these short

The Economy  Mr. Speaker, the Liberal leader has boasted that he likes to tax and spend. He has said he will have to raise taxes on hard-working Canadian families. With the release of the pink book, the Liberal leader has made dozens of huge, uncosted and irresponsible spending proposals

Retribution on Behalf of Victims of White Collar Crime Act  . It remains the primary offence for going after those who deceive honest Canadians. As members of the House, we are here to stand up for honest, hard-working Canadians and ensure that their interests are protected and that they are protected from those who would attempt to take

Status of Women   has costed over $6 billion a year. That is $10 billion a year on top of everything else we are facing right now. Instead of increasing taxes on hard-working Canadian families we are working to make sure that they get the chance to keep more of their own money to spend on what

Infrastructure   against millions of honest, hard-working Canadians. Why, for example, is a disabled child in Dartmouth worth less to the government than such a child in Whitby? Why?

Liberal Party Platform  Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Liberal leader released a Liberal platform that is filled with huge, irresponsible and uncosted spending proposals. For example, he repeated his commitment to the Liberal EI 45-day work year. This plan is offensive to hard-working Canadians

Peter Kennedy   and friends for his too-short life and for his service as an ordinary and hard-working Canadian in making this country work.

House debate   against that. How can he stand up in good conscience and say that he is not ashamed of voting against proposals that would help hard-working Canadians who have paid into the system, who have worked hard and now find themselves in an unfortunate situation? Why would the member turn

Employment Insurance Act   the establishment of the Canada Employment Insurance Financing Board, we are improving the management and governance of the EI account. We took that step to ensure that EI premiums paid by hard-working Canadians do not go into general revenues and are not available for future governments to use

Petitions   bill, formerly Bill C-442, now Bill C-286, which calls for the creation of an oil and gas ombudsman, will provide strong, effective consumer protection to make sure no big business could swindle, cheat or rip off hard-working Canadians. The petitioners therefore call upon

Economic Recovery Act (stimulus)   an election, Canadians should rest assured that our Conservative government stands with hard-working Canadians who want to be able to count on their pension plan for a stable retirement. We will take the steps required to make sure Canada's pension framework is strong. The economic

Infrastructure   in Ontario have received two to three times more funding despite higher unemployment elsewhere in the province. This Conservative rewards program is unfair and it punishes hard-working Canadians who did not vote Conservative. Will the minister come clean and open the books for all

Committees of the House  -working Canadians to make a living and keep up. They are slipping behind. The big issue being raised now by both the government and the Liberals around the buy America act is the recent pronouncements made last week. The buy America act has been in force for the best part of 40-odd