The Economy   countries like Greece is an insult to the hard-working Canadians and seniors who are worried about making ends meet. The time is now for the government to finally acknowledge the legitimate concerns of Canadians, act on the evidence and present a credible plan to safeguard Canadian jobs

Canada-U.S. Relations  . This government is focused on removing trade barriers, not erecting new ones. We are focused on building the economic prosperity of this country. We are standing up for ordinary, hard-working Canadians. Why are they not?

Restoring Mail Delivery for Canadians Act  Mr. Speaker, could the hon. member comment on how the proposed legislation would harm not only those hard-working Canadians who have union representation but also those who do not have union representation and are really struggling with a lot of part-time jobs and poor working

Restoring Mail Delivery for Canadians Act   with the member's implication that defending hard-working Canadians is somehow something not worth standing on. On this side of the House, and in this party, we support decent jobs, decent wages, and the hard work that Canadians do. We are proud to stand for that principle today and any day

Restoring Mail Delivery for Canadians Act  , as a constituent of mine, took the time to write. I have to ask myself, and it is a question really to the hon. members opposite on the government side: Why would they go after hard-working Canadians like Jody's aunt Diane? Why would they go after hard-working Canadians? What is behind

Restoring Mail Delivery for Canadians Act   a dozen or more of the people I see sitting in the House right now come from an organized labour background. That is okay, but what the members of the NDP should be truthful about in this debate is that they are not representing all of the millions of hard-working Canadians who

Restoring Mail Delivery for Canadians Act   to validate the desire for cheap portable labour; an economy that is not all about sweetheart deals for the business elite and nothing but concessions from hard-working Canadians. We have heard the government say that it wanted to have a stable government and that is why we went

Restoring Mail Delivery for Canadians Act   delaying tactics, millions of hard-working Canadians are concerned about their financial futures. In fact, they are concerned to the point that many seniors and many small business people have contacted us continuously over the last 27 hours imploring us to get this legislation passed

Restoring Mail Delivery for Canadians Act   the case. There is nothing happy about back-to-work legislation, and the piece we have before us now is among the worst this place has ever seen. It is a blatant attack on workers and pensions and is emblematic of the contempt that the Conservatives display for hard-working Canadians

Restoring Mail Delivery for Canadians Act   are now facing the most ideologically-driven government in the country's history. There is a labour relations chill emanating from the government as result of Bill C-6 that will be felt across this great country. It will be felt most in the homes and lives of good hard-working

Canada Post  Mr. Speaker, hard-working Canadians across the country are calling for an immediate restoration of mail services. I have heard from many of my constituents who are strongly supportive of the government's clear and decisive action to proceed with back to work legislation

House debate   through a strike or lockout has to be weighed against the rights of all Canadians in all provinces and territories. The losses caused by a shutdown of postal services are not borne only by Canada Post and its employees. They are borne by hard-working Canadians and their families

Resumption and Continuation of Postal Services Legislation   at the table. However, while all of this has been going on, small businesses have been worried about how they are going to survive. Could the minister please tell us why this legislation is so necessary to protect hard-working Canadians who are involved in small businesses?

Business of Supply   NDP tax hike would mean losing good Canadian jobs and jeopardizing the financial security of hard-working Canadians. Small businesses know that Canadians cannot afford that. They know they cannot afford higher taxes and cannot afford the job-killing policies of the NDP. Despite

Business of Supply   thinks that money grows on trees, not produced by hard-working Canadians and small businesses. A government can only deliver low taxes if it spends wisely. Unfortunately, the Conservative government has proven to do just the opposite. The Auditor General and now the RCMP have called