Child Care  Mr. Speaker, my point is that $5 billion is not enough. We need more options to be able to afford child care. There are also other ways to help Canadian families with young children. It is called tax relief. The Liberal tax system gouges families for every penny. This child car

Child Care  Mr. Speaker, the proposed Liberal child care system is not about children. It is about politics. This is a ludicrous approach to raising and educating children. Young Canadian families deserve more, and Canadians need to know that the Liberals have not and will not entertain choi

Child Care  Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Liberals voted against allowing parents to choose different child care options and voted against--

Child Care  --tax measures that support those child care options. Let us be clear. The Liberal plan does not even scratch the surface to address the child care crisis in the country and it does not address the needs and desires of parents for choice in child care. Will the Minister of Soci

Child Care  Mr. Speaker, almost 100% of young working moms and dads in Canada have said that if they could afford it, they would stay home part time to care for their own children. Today in the House the Minister of Social Development said that young working moms only say that because they f

Child Care  Mr. Speaker, my question for the minister is clear. Why is this minister so opposed to providing choices for working women?

Child Care  Mr. Speaker, we fought long and hard for the right to vote, the right to participate in universities and the workforce, and the right to make our own choices. Working women want to make their own choices. We do not need old white guys telling us what to do.

Questions on the Order Paper  Madam Speaker, the hon. member and I have discussed as colleagues on the finance committee the issue of eliminating the discrepancy or the discrimination in the taxation system between dual and single income families, and how this obviously would be a benefit not only to working

Questions on the Order Paper  Madam Speaker, as I alluded to, there have been discussions, actually on both sides of the House for years, but particularly in industry and among economists, about how the tax system is very unfair to families, and about how in particular it is unfair to working women and to wom

Questions on the Order Paper  Madam Speaker, quite a number of questions are wrapped up in those remarks. First, let me be clear that the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, the leader of the official opposition, has used and accessed all types of day care for his own young children, as he indicated

Questions on the Order Paper  Madam Speaker, I would like to thank the Leader of the Opposition for tackling this important issue. I would also like to commend my colleague, the member for Saskatoon--Rosetown--Biggar and the Conservative critic on social development, for her fine work on this issue. I would

Child Care  Mr. Speaker, this weekend it became clear that the Liberal vision of day care is not shared by Canadian women. Canada has the highest rate of working moms in the industrialized world. Close to 100% of these working moms have said that if they could afford it, they would stay home

Child Care  Mr. Speaker, Quebec already has its own child care program, and a federal program is only diverting funds that should be put into the hands of parents. Will the Liberal government stop invading Quebec's areas of jurisdiction and give the province full financial compensation with

Fiscal Arrangements Act  Madam Speaker, I think that most of the territories believe the territory financing formula does not meet their needs presently to build the infrastructure necessary to develop not only the human capital but the fiscal capability to develop those natural resources. Right now the

Fiscal Arrangements Act  Madam Speaker, my colleague rightly pointed out that there are 33 parts of the equalization formula, which, yes, is a very highly complex formula. In the preamble to his question, he answered it himself, which is the point about non-renewable resource revenues. I think the situa