Speech From The Throne   cuts will still leave Canada with the highest income tax to GDP ratio in the G-7, even while the U.S. is dramatically lowering its tax burden. We need to give hard working Canadians, businesses and entrepreneurs the same kinds of incentives and rewards that they could be achieving

Income Tax Act   have met and worked with many of these professionals. This sector contributes significantly to our gross domestic product and the large volume of exports contribute significantly to our balance of trade. This industry provides work to many hard working Canadians. However

Organized Crime   are a cancer to our society. They exploit the freedoms that we cherish so much in this great country. They exploit our honest young people and the quality of life that honest hard-working Canadians work to achieve and maintain. The public must recognize that gangs and organized criminals

Budget Implementation Act, 2000   courses which the government has subsidized. Sudbury is but one of a long list. What business is it of the government to take money from 21 hard-working Canadians, their full tax bills, to subsidize golf courses? How do the Liberals account for that type of spending

Budget Implementation Act, 2000   and there was still no admission from the finance minister. He said “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”. That was in the budget speech of February 24, 1998. By looking at these quotes, it proves that he

Budget Implementation Act, 2000  It was $316 million, and it is projected to exceed $1 billion. Just imagine the benefits taxpayers could reap if that money was left in their own pockets. It is very insulting for hard-working Canadian families to pay such high levels of tax and then to see that type of waste

Budget Implementation Act, 2000   of why the EI overpayment is unfair. It is an excessive tax on workers and employers. When the Canadian Alliance forms the government we will immediately lower EI premiums to the break-even point and stop that unfair taxation on property owners and hard-working Canadians. The Liberal

Budget Implementation Act, 2000   social programs that Canadians care about, such as our health care system, in favour of handing money to their political friends. That is tax money, I might add, paid by hard working Canadian families. I would also like to address the amendment to the Excise Tax Act to allow

Modernization Of Benefits And Obligations Act   in the bill? The fact is that most of the statutes in the bill dealing with benefits relate to pensions. We believe that hard working Canadians should be able to provide for and indeed be encouraged to provide for their common law partners, whether opposite sex or same sex. The bill has

Supply   working Canadians are desperately trying to raise public awareness to the serious problems facing their industry. I think most Canadians now understand the situation. Perhaps the only Canadians who were not moved by this public display are the members of the Liberal government who

Supply   as labour market information developed by the local HRDC offices. Decisions as to where transitional jobs funds were allocated were based on a real need to help hard-working Canadians adjust to the new EI program. After all, hon. members will agree that the goal of government programs

The Budget   of this letter to Finance Minister Paul Martin and the Prime Minister. They obviously don't live in the real world. I do and I don't like it. How do we pick a winner from all these? There are no real winners, only hard working Canadians who lose out to a finance minister who promises tax

Fuel Taxes  Mr. Speaker, I rise today on behalf of the people of Beauséjour—Petitcodiac who are irate at the high gas and fuel prices. It would seem that the federal government is once again turning its back on hard-working Canadians. Not only has the high fuel tax hurt the trucking

Veterans Health Care   businesses, but for hard working Canadians as well. We really hope that will be the case. We somehow doubt it, but we hope that will be the case. I am going to anticipate part of what the answer of my colleague will be: that we have low taxes, the minister has reduced taxes, everything

Shipbuilding Act, 1999  . The costs to the taxpayer are included in that. As I said at the beginning, given my present analysis I will be voting against the bill because of the very broad principle that I do not think the government should have the ability to take money out of the pockets of hard-working