Supply   took $705 million out of the pockets of hard-working Canadians. The Canadian Alliance believes that taxes which are imposed for a specific purpose, like this deficit fighting tax, should be used for that purpose alone and removed when no longer required, as in this case. The former

Public Safety Act, 2002   of their privacy for additional security. I would say respectfully back to her that for a lot of hard-working Canadians that may in fact be a reality. However it is even more incumbent on those who Canadians elect to places and chambers, like the House of Commons, the legislators

Employment Insurance  Mr. Speaker, yesterday it was reported that the EI surplus has ballooned by $6.5 billion. The government is collecting a whopping 33% more in premiums than what is necessary. Payroll taxes hurt hard-working Canadians and businesses, yet the Liberals only moved to cut premiums

Employment Insurance   to government. Well, his idea of integrity has been to balance the books on the backs of hard-working Canadians who pay inflated EI premiums. Since the current finance minister is running against his old rival, will he undo the damage of the past 10 years to hard-working Canadians

Budget Implementation Act, 2003   all the help and benefits that a strong federal government should provide for them. There was certainly more than enough surplus to finally reward these hard working Canadian families by lowering the GST and personal income taxes. Instead, the government has ignored the priorities

Income Tax Act   of Canadians, for hard working Canadian families. I also have some sympathy for her ideas that copyright and patent law need to be protected. We are in agreement with that. Intellectual property is an important part of property. Property needs to be rewarded. When people have ideas and want

Budget Implementation Act, 2003  , Liberals have a philosophy, believe it or not. Liberals believe that every hard-working Canadian or Canadian family should be gouged to the max. Spare the rod and spoil the taxpayer is the Liberal mantra. Another question Canadians have is why the high cost of vehicle and heating fuels

The Budget  . This should have been the budget that propelled Canada to the forefront of the most innovative, the most productive nations on earth by substantially paying down our national debt, providing hard-working Canadians and businesses with some real tax relief and re-prioritizing spending from

The Budget   like to say regarding the deficit. First, it was not the government that eliminated the deficit, but hard working Canadian taxpayers. That is something that Liberal members should remember. It is not their own money they are spending, it is Canadian taxpayers' money. They forget

The Budget  . It fails because it spends too lavishly and banks on future economic success that is not guaranteed. It fails because it ignores hard-working Canadians, average Canadians who deserve real broad based tax breaks after all the years of Liberal tax hikes and half measures. The budget

Canada Elections Act   and donations are the way that political party is funded. We are, however, adamantly opposed to the enhanced public funding of political parties. In a democracy it is simply wrong to force hard-working Canadians or citizens to support certain political parties. Every voter in the country

Canada Elections Act   almost $8 million worth of taxpayer money which will replace about $6.5 million they received from corporations, unions and associations, not all of which I should add, will be lost. In a democracy it is simply wrong to force hard-working Canadians to support political parties

Export Development Canada  , workers in Mexico are doing more than half the work on this Pacific project. How can the federal government lend billions of dollars to create jobs in foreign countries while hard-working Canadians are losing their jobs at the same time?

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

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