Business of Supply   with automatic tellers and the main street Canadians who are having a hard time struggling to make ends meet, I think it is deplorable that the Conservatives choose their Bay Street buddies every single time rather than siding with real Canadians and standing up for Canada. That is deplorable.

Automobile Industry   in the automotive sector in Ontario”. Why did the Minister of Industry kill that program on December 31 just when auto workers needed it most? Why is he allowing his right-wing ideology to kill real Canadian jobs?

Business of Supply   change, ideas and policies that are making a difference in real Canadian women's lives. This government is committed to action in terms of women and justice issues. There are stories in the paper every day about repeat offenders, men who have abused their wives, children

Transfer Payments   in November last year? One can select from three sets of figures that the former government had about potential transfers to real Canadians. We prefer our solid numbers in budget 2006, which are all increases in transfers to the provinces.

Transfer Payments  Mr. Speaker, contrary to what the Prime Minister alleges, the provinces know that he needs to invest $6 billion just for them to get back to even. It is not governments we are talking about here; it is real Canadians who are being shortchanged and deprived. We are talking

Human Resources and Social Development  , $30,000 for an executive director to do 90 days of work. We are spending the money well. We are spending it on programs that will deliver real results for real Canadians.

Private Brent Ginther  Mr. Speaker, it is not every day that we have the opportunity to meet a real Canadian hero, but over the Thanksgiving weekend I did just that when I met Private Brent Ginther from the town of Coaldale in my riding. This quiet reserved young man had finally arrived home after

Finance committee   forward should first be broadened by challenging the roles of the federal government in the Canadian economy, as well as with the goods and services it provides. Since the federal government's expenditures and revenues account for close to 15% of real Canadian GDP, its impact

Human Resources committee   and Labrador is a direct testament to that. These are real Canadians with real Canadian jobs. Speaking to a real Canadian labour market, we know we have labour shortages in many parts of our country, even in Newfoundland and Labrador. The models of collaboration we have in our province

Business of Supply   Learning Association. Now he says that the literacy programs may end, or they will have to cut back on programs to help learners. This is a travesty. These are real Canadians who are looking for a hand up, not a push down. The government has misunderstood the generous nature

Literacy   energies and our dollars on programs that deliver real results, real results for real Canadians, not support for advocates. On the literacy program, we are going to focus on books, more books, not more bureaucrats.

Literacy  Mr. Speaker, by focusing our energies on adult learning and literacy skills, Canadians will have access to the best literacy training available. These will, for a change, be programs that run efficiently and deliver real results for real Canadians.

Government Programs   that every dollar went toward producing real results for real Canadians, for taxpayers. That is what we promised and that is what we are doing.

Softwood Lumber Products Export Charge Act, 2006   into northern Ontario or we do not want the trade committee to go to British Columbia because we do not want to hear from real Canadians. The Bloc just cancelled the sessions that were supposed to take place in Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean, even though everyone knows that this area is the most

Health committee  Maybe I'll start on the question around nutrition labelling—what impact it is having, whether people have the ability to understand the label. It's a fairly new regulation, and when we developed it we did a significant amount of focus testing with real Canadians to develop