Income Tax Act   not only to MPs, but also to all citizens. This process is a farce; next week we are going to listen to witnesses, while the report has already been written. What kind of influence are these people going to have? The committee must return to Toronto, at the insistence of the Liberal

Privilege   of Liberal friends in Quebec, or funnelled into the Liberal Party of Canada to fight election campaigns and shape the outcome of elections. It is shameful. The Liberal Party has said that it is going to clean up things. Let us look at whether it is cleaning things up. The Liberal MP

The Budget   Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the CBC, subsidies to business and of course the MP pension plan, among other things. The rise in tax deductibility for charitable donations is something with which I agree. It is a good move. Again, if we look at the taxpayers' budget, which

Department of Human Resources and Skills Development Act  , and its annual turnover was $55 million. It was delivering cash to 1,200 of the 6,000 automatic teller machines in Quebec. Since the labour dispute began, this work has been done by the bank employees and some 100 managers of the company. The situation deteriorated at the end

Code of Conduct   that was never actually acted upon in the past five years. If we ever have had an exercise in smoke and mirrors, it is today. Let us ask some hard questions about this exercise. Is it really the backbench legislators who have been violating rules of ethical conduct? Is it opposition MPs

Excise Tax Act   to this dreaded GST". For heaven's sake, what do you think happened next? Page 22 of the red book became absolutely famous. I would quote from it now, Mr. Speaker, but you know I do not have my copy any longer, but I certainly know what page 22 said. It said that the federal government

Budget Implementation Act, 1994   to members of Parliament that are out of line with standards the public expects. I refer specifically to the MP pension plan. Even the contribution levels of members of Parliament to that plan exceed normal contribution to a plan. On top of that, the government is now matching our

An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (Cruelty to Animals and Firearms) and the Firearms Act   of the riding I represent in Crowfoot in Alberta. As I stated during debate on Bill C-5, the endangered species act, farmers do not need any more Ottawa made laws to drive them further into the ground. Many of my constituents, like those of all rural MPs including members on the other side

Agriculture   are telling me that they are in big trouble. Craik is a very small town, actually a village, with a number of larger farms around the community. There were 22 producers who could not pay their chemical bill as of November 1 from the last crop year. Should an alarm bell not go off in terms

Symbol for the House of Commons   Party's wrongdoings: friends of the government, hired help on the payroll, the cash-stuffed envelopes, the $120,000 in dirty money for campaigns in ridings in eastern Quebec held by Bloc Québécois MPs. Do they think that the people shocked by the daily revelations from the Gomery

Proceeds Of Crime (Money Laundering) Act  Madam Speaker, as you said I am resuming debate. In the first half we had a few choice words about the way the government proceeded to bring Bill C-22 to the House and, indeed, the debacle that we have seen in that whole procedure, to the point where we had to shut down debate

An act to amend certain acts and instruments and to repeal the Fisheries Prices Support Act   Arrangements Act which I am sure would excite people watching live this afternoon, and Special Retirement Arrangements Act. The committee will have to get together to make sure there are no special arrangements for MPs pensions or senior bureaucrats. The bill also amends

Protection of the Unborn Child   to move within the womb, or when the baby is able to survive outside the womb. Mr. Speaker, a little over a year ago on March 22, 2001 we debated my Motion No. 228 to reword the definition of a human being in the Criminal Code of Canada. One Liberal MP and one Bloc MP refused my two

The Budget  , in particular Alberta, which has the cash, to implement a two tier system of health care. I remind the House that in the United States 48 million Americans are not insured for health care. They are mainly poor people, black people, people living in inner cities and people living in rural

Agriculture And Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Act   on page 22 states: "In the House of Commons a Liberal government will give MPs a greater role in drafting legislation through House of Commons committees". That is what it said but it is certainly not what it is doing. Last week when Bill C-61 was at report stage, the Liberals