Income Tax Amendments Act, 1998  Mr. Speaker, this is the third time I have risen to speak about the budget announced by the federal government. Bill C-72 reflects what has been brought in by the budget. It deals with what I would call piecemeal tax relief for Canadians. The government says it is giving a non-r

Income Tax Amendments Act, 1998  Mr. Speaker, I listened with great interest to what my colleague had to say and I would like to ask him a question. What is his view of the way the government actually does its accounting? Perhaps he could elaborate on that point.

Income Tax Amendments Act, 1998  Madam Speaker, I listened with interest to my colleague from the Conservative Party. He brought one point forward when he said an investment of $1 in early childhood would give dividends. He used the figure of $7 at age 25 as being the benefit to Canada, which is an extremely po

Budget Implementation Act, 1999  Mr. Speaker, talk about the hot air that just blew over from the other corner. He just stood to ask anything. He did not say a single word about what I was talking about. He talked about deficit reduction. The deficit was reduced on the backs of Canadians. Government did not cle

Budget Implementation Act, 1999  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for asking that question. It is a good question. Where did this deficit come from? Was it not started by a Liberal government? It initiated this business of deficit spending and the Tories followed. It started over there. Now the Conservative go

Budget Implementation Act, 1999  I will give the hon. member some tablets for his indigestion. The central theme of what I have been saying is that the federal government will have to address the issue of tax relief. It will have to address the issue of smaller government. Get off our backs. That is the bottom

Budget Implementation Act, 1999  Mr. Speaker, a member from British Columbia is talking about my leader while I am talking about taxes. Let us talk about taxes for a change. We have problems. We have a problem with education. Post-secondary education is a problem. Small business people are facing problems. CPP

Budget Implementation Act, 1999  Mr. Speaker, today I rise to speak to Bill C-71. This is the third time that I rise to speak to this bill. I rise to speak because I feel strongly about what is happening in our country, especially in the past couple of years when we have seen taxes going up, our financial house

Budget Implementation Act, 1999  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak on the motion by the Bloc party which says it would like to delete the component of clause 4 dealing with the provincial share of the cash contribution under the CHST from April 1, 1999 to March 31, 2004. At the outset I would like to say that

Kosovo  Mr. Speaker, over the past month and a half, the world has witnessed a human tragedy that few could have imagined happening at the dawn of the new millennium. A systematic ethnic cleansing has been taking place in Kosovo. It has turned children, women and the elderly into refugee

Criminal Code  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to participate in the debate on Bill C-374 introduced by the hon. member for Témiscamingue. I commend the member for this most worthwhile initiative and for bringing before the House an issue with such profound consequences for our children. At the outs

Trade  Mr. Speaker, the government was aware for quite some time that Canada's favoured nation status as a defence partner with the U.S.A. was at risk. With over 50,000 jobs in Canada potentially affected in every region of the country and $5 billion in trade at risk, why did the foreig

Trade  Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is the government had ample time to head off this potentially explosive situation. Frontec, an Alberta firm, risks losing over $100 million worth of U.S. defence contracts over the next 60 days. This is just one example of over 1,500 companies

Trade  Mr. Speaker, there is a crisis brewing in our backyard and once again the government seems to be paralyzed. The United States has stripped Canada of its favoured nation status on defence contracts. Is it not shameful that the minister of trade did not even know of this impending

Trade  Mr. Speaker, it is obvious that the minister of trade was asleep at the switch when $5 billion worth of trade was at stake. Now we have the Minister of Foreign Affairs off to Washington to try to repair the damage. How did the government allow $5 billion worth of business to sli