Finance committee  Sure. Thank you. You raised a question that I thought was in part directed to me in terms, the way I heard it anyway, of whether there are areas where labour, business, and other groups could work together. I'd like to identify two that I think are important. One is in the area

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. As you said, my name is Ian Johnson. I'm a policy analyst and researcher with NSGEU. I'm here on behalf of our president, who was unable to attend the meeting. Our president is Joan Jessome. I also want to let you know that we're part of the N

Finance committee  It would appear to be the case, except that the.... Our question from May 2005 on--and we met with a variety of party representatives and MPs and MLAs--is, where is the money? It never came forward. Now the first argument we heard was, “We have to make sure there is a surplus.” I

Finance committee  Yes, sure, I'll be very quick. As I tried to indicate, I agree with your point. It shouldn't be restricted to just post-secondary. In fact, we used the words “public education and training” so that it could be available. Certainly we, as an organization representing trades peopl

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, I can't speak for the government, obviously, but I think what they were telling us...in fact, they tried to sneak this into the budget legislation in this most recent session to try to change that. They said--and, if I understand your question, what you were saying--we

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and Mr. McCallum. No, we wouldn't support a further cut. We think it's not the best use of the money that's available. What we do see is the need to remove the GST from essentials—

Finance committee  Thank you. Mr. Chair, it was a broad question, as was suggested. What we are saying is not that there shouldn't be payments on the debt or attention to taxation levels, but balanced with that should be the social deficit and the cost of what's happened over the last ten to fift

Finance committee  Thank you very much for your question. There are several possible answers to that. I was involved personally in lobbying for the Canada Health Act, so I have some familiarity with how that works. You're right that there were problems in what happened under the Martin government

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and good morning. I'm here on behalf of our president, Joan Jessome, who is unable to attend. I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you this morning. We're following a letter that was sent by my friend Chris Parsons on behalf of our Post-Secondary Educa