Employment   do nothing job strategy. On another point I want to congratulate every hard working Canadian for contributing a total of $26 billion over the past three years toward reducing the federal deficit. I am pleased the Prime Minister has acknowledged their contribution. These Canadians

Liberal Party   in this country thinks that, I do not believe the average hard working Canadian, or student or senior citizen can hear them. Now hear me out. I am hearing that these old parties are out of touch. They no longer represent the average Canadian. This could be just hearsay, but I clearly suspect

Supply   the government introduces a plan that will hurt job creation. The finance minister said the CPP premium increase was not a payroll tax, that it was an investment. I would like him to convince hard working Canadians who are deeper in debt than they have ever been and are having difficult

Income Tax Budget Amendments Act, 1996   because of the changes the Liberal government is bringing in now. We will be put in that same situation. The member from Winnipeg has been honest with Canadians in pointing that out. There have been $10 billion in increases on hard working Canadian taxpayers. Ultimately the Canada

Broadcast Act  Mr. Speaker, I am extremely pleased to rise in support of a very important piece of legislation which is of concern to every hard working Canadian including those living in Quebec. I am speaking against the amendment because for too long Canadian pocketbooks have been gouged

Income Tax Conventions Implementation Act, 1997   for policy reasons to tax that pension system at the front end when the taxpayer earns the money and pays into the system rather than when he retires and collects from it. Imagine the case of a hard working Canadian taxpayer who goes across the border to find gainful employment

Employment Insurance  , but they must be done in a way that is fair to the only source of revenue in the country, hard working Canadians. The government really must be serious about this change. The parliamentary secretary said in the debate that the new hires program waives or does not collect the UI premiums

Supply   working Canadians, people like contractors who provide services for other people. It is a natural tendency to say “I am so overburdened by the regressive taxation system in this country, I will tell you what. I am going to do that for cash”. They make cash deals. So the GST drives

National Child Day   combined. This causes a great deal of anxiety and pain to hard working Canadians. This situation does not need to exist nor should it exist. When will this government wake up, get its hands out of the pockets of hard working Canadian families and give them their money back? Through

Organized Crime   blue line, these men and women who walk the beat and patrol the neighbourhoods of Canada, and they are tasked with enforcing the laws that we make in this House. Without the active support of these hard working Canadians, many of whom put their lives at risk time and time again

Supply   in the areas of little need in which they doled out millions upon millions of dollars to their political friends and special interest groups. That is not how we reached this balanced budget. We reached this balanced budget through Liberal policies on the backs of hard working Canadian

The Budget   turn to the question of taxation. Let me begin by reaffirming our goal. It is to reduce taxes. It is to leave more money in the pockets of hard working Canadians. A government's tax policy must be an essential element of its overall social and economic policy. Our tax policy

Income Tax Amendments Act, 1997   for all Canadians. For example, an increase in personal income tax exemptions to $10,000 would immediately remove two million low income Canadians from the tax rolls and reward all hard working Canadians. Even though it is a Progressive Conservative idea we do not mind lending

Budget Implementation Act, 1998   will work. I would like to bring in another point of view. My riding, like many ridings in Canada, is made up of hard working Canadians, Canadians who, due to the high taxation of this government, are struggling to put food on the table. They do not have the money to send their children

Employment Insurance   wage gain. I ask the finance minister: Why does he not simply do the right thing, the thing he has promised but has not fulfilled, and promise today that some real tax breaks are going to come for hard working Canadians?