Softwood Lumber   not mistaken, the current Prime Minister left the cozy confines of the private sector with the sole stated purpose of defeating free trade, with the Liberal Party. The minister mentioned our new ambassador, Frank McKenna. Our new ambassador made a statement just a few weeks ago indicating

Summit Of The Americas   they do not understand the issues. I want to mention something to the member from the Bloc for whom I have great respect. He mentioned the growing inequality, not only around the world but in this country. Since free trade, the wage, earning and social gaps between the poor

Summit Of The Americas  Mr. Speaker, I could not help but notice that the hon. member from Alberta, who I have a great respect for, mentioned the Mexican economy and the uplifting of that economy because of free trade. The reality is that post-NAFTA in Mexico free trade has created one new billionaire

Customs Tariff  Mr. Speaker, it is interesting to hear my esteemed colleague from St. John's West, from the island of Newfoundland, talking about the free trade deal and the hundreds of thousands of jobs it has created. I wonder how many people in Newfoundland are listening to his comments

An Act to Authorize the Minister of Finance to Make Certain Payments   that element of the economy. We have too many hardworking, overtaxed Canadians who again are being held back. Bill C-48 is but one page. It contains three clauses. It would spend $4.6 billion without any plan or detail. It would be an abysmal and irresponsible free-for-all spending orgy

Supply   in committee and its helpful contributions to the committee. If I may, I would like to refer to the committee's minority report as it was written in the larger report. I take the Reform Party at its word when it says that it is a free trade party and supports Canada's participation

Transportation Amendment Act   the entire mechanism that created port security and then says “Please give us a big round applause for putting just a tiny bit of it back in”. Regarding freight rail, the government needs to do something to ensure that we have all aspects of good free movement of grain for prairie

The Budget   but it is also a fact that the government has done its very best to deal with the matter of access to universities and colleges across the country. The extraordinary thing is that in the province of Quebec, the Cegep, going to college is actually free. Here is one jurisdiction, with whatever

Supply   it in one of its many campaign booklets as it did to abolish the GST or to get rid of free trade, and it did not happen. This is a marker firmly placed in the ground calling upon the government to fully fund a cancer strategy, fully fund a strategy around mental illness, and heart

Softwood Lumber  Mr. Speaker, of course we like free trade. We invented it, unlike the minister opposite. The Minister for International Trade is ignoring the representatives of the softwood lumber industry but listening to the handful of CEOs who donated in excess of $30,000 to the Liberal

Supply  Madam Speaker, I thank my friend for the question. It is something that I quite frankly had not contemplated because I do not see the drug trade as being directly related to free trade, although there are certainly implications whenever a country such as ours, which does so much

Department of Human Resources and Skills Development Act   the government, it seems, even if we were to oppose it, would declare, as it did with the foreign affairs and international trade departments, that it does not matter what this House says, it will divide it anyhow. While the government is focusing on that kind of bureaucratic shuffling

Business Of The House  . By the year 2000 this area will have a population of nearly 500 million and a gross domestic product of $2 trillion. Canadian business representatives are bullish on the region. The achievement of more open markets through the free trade area of the Americans, as we call it now the FTAA

Canada Co-Operatives Act  Mr. Speaker, if Canada has learned any lesson in the last 10 years, it is that having rules for trade and for interactions between countries have been to Canada's benefit. I should point out that the free trade agreement with the United States, which is 10 years old this year

Supply  . For that I will always be grateful to Canada and its young men and women who sacrificed so much so that we could be free. It is ironic and rather pleasing, actually, to see the defence minister of Canada stand up at a board of trade in a business meeting and say that the military