Finance   that is ready to invest in the future, in middle-class Canadians so that they have more money in their pockets, and in families. These kinds of investments will create growth, which was neglected in Canada by the previous government for the past 10 years.

Finance  Mr. Speaker, we are moving forward with a plan that is going to make a real difference for Canadians. It starts by helping middle-class Canadians to have better lives. It started with tax cuts and a move forward with the Canada child benefit that will really improve Canadians

Finance   of middle-class Canadians.

Excise Act, 2001   on his work. However, sadly, many of us on this side will be unable to support this bill. The Government of Canada is focused on helping middle-class Canadians have more money in their pockets so they are able to save for retirement and provide for their families. We know

International Trade committee  I would tend to agree with you. I think the real risk is to quintessential middle-class Canadian jobs. When you're talking about entry-level, low-skilled employment, as we grow as an economy—and every economy as we industrialize—we stop doing the rudimentary things

International Trade committee  . If we're easing the restrictions, it stands to reason that it will be easier than it has been. That's why we're here before you today. There's a real impact on hard-working, middle-class Canadians. We need to protect against that.

International Trade committee   with a significantly laid-off workforce that's ready to take on those jobs. If we do anything to disrupt that.... Construction has one of the highest multipliers in the economy at about 1.7. Those dollars make a difference. When our middle-class Canadians are working, they can buy homes, they can

Instruction to Committee on Bill C-2   provide to the average so-called middle-class Canadian, it works out to about $540 annually. That is from the numbers that were provided by the government's own finance department. If we take that $540 and divide it by 365 days in a year, that ends up being about $1.25 a day. We all

Health committee   important to understand that many middle-class Canadians either don't have good drug coverage or are at risk of losing their drug coverage in the modern Canadian economy. That's the private drug plans. They're not working well for Canadians. Now let's talk about our public insurance

Health committee   I say middle-class Canadians, over the concentrated and thus powerful interests of specific actors. This is not to say that governments that take action won't find support from the Canadian public. On the contrary, the 2015 Angus Reid Institute survey mentioned earlier found

Small Business  , incubators, and accelerators, and the list goes on. All of it, absolutely all of it, supports small and medium-size businesses, their consumers, the middle-class Canadians who own them, and the people who work hard for small business.

International Trade committee  That's very fair. Dr. Green, you and I, and other members of Parliament here, might not be ordinary middle-class Canadians, but you and I can be a source of good in those middle-class Canadians' ways of life. Instead of outright objecting to this agreement, how can you

International Trade committee   middle-class Canadian. I'm associate faculty at Royal Roads University. I also prepared a written submission but didn't have time to get it to you to have it translated. You'll get that eventually. Ecological economics arose out of a collaboration between economists and ecologists

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, I would invite my hon. colleague to read the budget in its entirety, because actually this budget is a budget for middle-class Canadians and Canadian families. We are the government that reduced the taxes for the middle class. Nine million Canadians are paying less

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, we need to look at the budget as a whole, because we understand and we know that the budget focuses on the middle class, which is the key for small business. We know that middle-class Canadians are those who own and work in small businesses. They are also customers