The Budget   on borrowed money every single year for the last 30 years. I ask Canadians watching this debate did you as a regular Canadian run your family finances that way? Did you borrow more and more money every single year for the last 30 years? What if you had done that? What shape would you

Criminal Code   to be handcuffed by the inefficiencies of a pointless warrant process. I am fully aware of the mine field we walk through known as the charter of rights and freedoms, or should I call it the challenges to the charter, which test the patience of regular Canadians such as me. One of the only

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act  . Of course regular Canadians are out of luck. The fund's operations are not even subject to access to information. Yet this fund will soon have a massive proportion of Canada's total equity pool. The implications are staggering for its impact on the total economic structure of our

Income Tax Conventions Implementation Act, 1997  . The unfairness of that system is gone. Canadians who earn social security in the United States will have that social security come back to Canada and here in Canada they will be taxed at the regular Canadian rates. What it really means is that instead of being overtaxed in the United States

Speech From The Throne   little from the rest of society while some with substantial means receive too much. I speak for a party committed to a political process which reflects the views and interests of regular Canadians rather than the political elites, a party whose principles and policies are formulated

Budget Implementation Act, 1997   to paying attention to what the priorities are of regular Canadians. It is completely off track because way back when Canadians said-and I think they continue to say it-that they expect the government to provide opportunity. It has failed to do that. They also say they expect

Budget Implementation Act, 1997   in line with the priorities of regular Canadians. As someone who has been to many different provinces this past year I can say that the government simply does not understand the priorities of the Canadian people. I was in Moose Jaw and Saskatoon last week. I was in British Columbia

Income Tax Budget Amendments Act, 1996   scratch. The Income Tax Act is absolutely enormous. There are volumes and volumes to it. It does not seem that regular Canadians are able to fill out their income tax returns anymore because it has become so complex. It seems there are so many rules to follow and so many loopholes

Pensions   that taxpayer money could buy, a gold plated MP pension plan. Under the plan the Conservative leader would receive $53,000 a year for his 9.9 per cent premium; the Deputy Prime Minister, $49,000 a year. Meanwhile regular Canadians would get $9,000 a year for their 9.9 per cent premium

Employment   the captain of Exxon Valdez being proud of his driving record. Why will the Prime Minister not admit that he has clearly lost touch with regular Canadians who now suffer from his record of broken promises?

Canadian Census   reason that Lew, who just happens to be my husband and I think the greatest guy in the world, as a regular Canadian said: "Let me get my hands on this so I can tell this government exactly what I think about this kind of list making and categorization of people as if we were just

Finance   and people who have fallen on hard times. However, I did not see that in the Prime Minister's responses to questions from regular Canadians last night. Those people have fallen on hard times. I want to talk about these issues one by one. These issues are very important to Canadians

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, $7,000 may not be a lot of money to the millionaires of this world, but it is a lot of money to regular Canadians. Can the finance minister explain to Canadians why one form of child care is worthy of a tax credit while the other is not? Can he explain why his

Goods And Services Tax  Mr. Speaker, perhaps the Prime Minister, instead of referring to the red book, should look at the fourth edition of the blue book, Reform's way of running the country. The Prime Minister knew before the election that the GST was not going to go, yet he pawned it off on regular

The Economy  Mr. Speaker, maybe someone in the finance minister's position does not understand why regular Canadians are so fearful about their economic futures. Canadians want less taxes, not different taxes. I remind the finance minister of his statement in 1990 when he said: "I would