Judges Act   pay increase for federal judges, with salaries increasing from $159,000 to over $172,000. I would be hard pressed to think of any other public servant, or any hard-working Canadian for that matter, who received that kind of pay increase in 1998. According to Statistics Canada

The Budget   year, hard-working Canadians will take home $150 less on their paycheques because of the mismanagement of the government. That is not acceptable. Payroll taxes are undoubtedly the most destructive for job creation. Yet, the Liberals chose to increase these taxes by an average

Employment Insurance  Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Finance once said “We believe there is nothing more ludicrous than a tax on hiring, but that is what high payroll taxes are”. If the Minister of Finance still believes that, why are hard-working Canadians paying $610 more in payroll taxes than

Committees of the House   is the proper care and maintenance of the sanctity of tax dollars of hard-working Canadians, not what the public might or might not think about how the government puts its budget together.

Budget Implementation Act, 2001   and that I found it objectionable that he had used that kind of language. When people read this they probably thought it was the most progressive system in the world so the Liberals must be good. A former economist of a bank ought to know how punitive the tax system is to hard working

The Economy   so-called tax cuts. Canadians still face paying over 40% of their GDP in taxes, while in the United States it is only 30%, and it is our biggest competitor and our trading partner. How can the government claim to have offered tax relief when the tax burden for hard-working

Budget Implementation Act, 2001   on the opposite side do not want taxpayers to get those savings? A one earner family of four earning $40,000 would pay $1,100 less in taxes and by 2004 this family would pay almost $2,000 less in tax, a 59% reduction in the amount of taxation that those hard-working Canadians would have to pay

The Economy   they not look in the mirror to see who is really causing the problem? Who is at fault here? Hard working Canadian businessmen or the failed economic policies of the government?

Excise Act, 2001   and scope of the federal government in order to deliver meaningful tax relief to hard-working Canadians. As a small business owner, I have firsthand knowledge and experience in dealing with the difficulties inherent in complying with CCRA regulations and remittance schedules. I look

An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (Cruelty to Animals and Firearms) and the Firearms Act   and ranchers do not trust the legislation. They do not trust the former justice minister and they do not trust the current justice minister. If the bill were to pass I fear that honest hard-working Canadians would be charged and put in jail for the simple act of trying to make a living

Trade   to protect hard-working Canadian families. The Prime Minister has failed. It turns out he has no influence in Washington and no clout to protect Canadians. Will the acting prime minister explain to Canadian families why the government has failed to protect their interests from U.S

Supply   failed to protect hard-working Canadian families. Why would the Alliance Party attack another region by saying Quebecers were not hard workers? The opposition leader went on to say if it had been Bombardier and not hard-working families the government might have taken action

Supply   the federal government has neglected to say is that, as my hon. colleague has mentioned, there is only one taxpayer. Only one person bears the brunt and the burden of the government's actions, good or bad, in terms of money: the hard-working Canadian who slogs, is overtaxed and often

Government Contracts  . Forty million dollars may not matter to the Liberal government but it sure matters to hard working Canadians who have squeezed till they squeak to come up with the cash. My question for the minister of public works. How many millions of taxpayer dollars have to be wasted, lost

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply   be facets of the throne speech one can find pleasing, but the reality is that those most in need of the government, those producing the wealth in the country, hard-working Canadians, are those in rural, remote and northern Canada. They are all but forgotten in the member from