Employment Insurance Act   commitment to a social safety net to help regular Canadians through tough times and bring forward reforms to Employment Insurance rules to expand eligibility and improve benefits, including: (a) eliminate the two-week waiting period; (b) reduce the qualifying period to a minimum of 360

House debate   held true to our commitment. Now the CBC is obviously experiencing the same economic downturn that regular Canadians are facing. Everyday Canadians are saying that these are tough economic times. People are being forced to make tough choices. The CBC has seen its advertising

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, I will be sharing my time with the member for Burnaby—Douglas. We have had 20 years of studies. In 1990 the New Democrats said that the credit card companies were ripping off regular Canadians, consumers and small businesses. A study done by the standing

Business of Supply  moved: That, in the opinion of this House, the government must address the alarming growth in the number of unemployed Canadians and the increasing number of Employment Insurance claimants; confirm its commitment to a social safety net to help regular Canadians through tough

National Defence committee   year, I think, that a reserve member who was injured and lost a leg got less compensation than a member in the regular forces who had the identical injury. Have those kinds of issues of inequality between members of the regular Canadian Forces and members of the reserve forces

Canada Elections Act   deal, but if we go down to the riding level, where we have three, four or five parties running, not each of these parties running candidates at the local level are smooth-oiled machines. These are regular Canadians, some of them for the first time embarking on a run for office

Business of Supply   not happen under the Liberals and it is not happening under the Conservatives. Regular Canadians want leadership from their MPs, those in this House, and that is what we want to provide as well. I have been providing leadership to our people in the north of this country by working

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply   regular Canadians are cleaning up, they are changing their light bulbs, changing cars that they are driving and they are taking transit. Is that not exactly what the government has been encouraging? Is she not missing the point? Did the government not take the initiative to encourage

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply  . Regular Canadians across this country are concerned with the wrong-headed direction that regime is taking us in, by walking away from Kyoto and embarrassing us internationally in the process, by having no strategy whatsoever on child poverty and no real interest. There is a void

Income Trusts  . The thugs with CAITI are the ones who influence him. Regular Canadians, people who pay taxes and rely on the people in this House to do their jobs and stand up for them, are the ones who need tax fairness. The member should stand up for them. I would like to know why he does not.

Status of Women committee  Thank you. The suicide rate I was referring to is for teenage suicide. And I didn't say 18% or 17%; I said 17 times higher than the regular Canadian numbers. It's just outrageous. There are all sorts of theories. Most of them are boys. Hunting is changing in the north due

Status of Women committee   more...and this is an offer to help, if you're interested in getting the right stats out there. Everything you said about that absolutely resonates with us. I'll just give you one example: teenage suicide. People say aboriginal teenage suicide is seven times higher than regular

Citizenship and Immigration committee   a devastating experience, and their life starts falling apart. They are the ones left looking for the sorts of records that previous witnesses have been talking about. They're left with trying to do things no regular Canadian knows how to do. This needs to be fundamentally shifted. You're

Health  Mr. Speaker, skyrocketing drug costs hurt families, businesses and governments. Regular Canadians spend almost $4 billion a year out of their own pockets on prescription drugs, businesses spend about $7 billion and governments spend $9 billion. When drug costs go up, everybody

Committees of the House   governments have simply said, “No, we are not standing up for Canadian interests, unless it is corporate CEOs or corporate lawyers who are represented. We are not going to do anything to help the Canadian middle class”. Regular Canadians have seen their real income fall. The Conservative