Members Of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act   and that pension would be indexed for life and payable starting at age 55? This is early retirement by anyone's standards. In the private sector, only 22 per cent of the pension plans are adjusted automatically for inflation. It takes MPs only 19 years to qualify for a full pension. A person

Supply   argues that by doing this British Columbia has discharged any duty it owed to the aboriginal people. As well, the government could compensate the native people with a one time cash payment for loss of hunting, trapping and gathering rights over the lands. It is our intention

Administrative Tribunals (Remedial And Disciplinary Measures) Act  , was appointed a director of Marine Atlantic. Third, Richard Cashin, a longstanding member of the Liberal Party and MP from 1962 to 1965, was appointed a member of the Canadian Transport Harvesting Adjustment Board. Fourth, Dorothy Davey, wife of former Liberal Senator Keith Davey

Excise Tax Act   of the speech of the member for Wild Rose which was that there is an underlying issue here. Are MPs allowed to vote the wishes of their constituents or not? Are they allowed to get input from their constituents, especially on the government side of the House? He remarked that we are only

Members Of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act   that was on November 22, when I, the member for Beaver River, introduced the motion on our opposition day to talk about the MP pension plan. So it was hardly some great initiative on the government side. In fact I would love to quote reams out of Hansard of that day. People stood in their places

Borrowing Authority Act, 1994-95  . The Gazette of February 26, 1994 indicated: ``The Angus Reid-Southam News survey says that 55 per cent of respondents nationally believe the Liberals are on the right track with the February 22 budget''. How about the Canadian Medical Association news release or communique? It indicated

Finance   committee report the government does speak of the unemployed, but mostly it boasts about the job the government has done in creating an environment so that the economy can create jobs. Last night I think that claim was really challenged by reporters at CBC when they pointed out

Sales Tax   it at 50 per cent and it is now down to 22 per cent. There is a long legacy from successive Conservative and Liberal governments where they get us on board with taxpayer money and then leave us high and dry. It was the finance minister who, when running for the leadership

Main Estimates, 1999-2000   to be accountable to his constituents on how he votes. Is he going to vote for spending $60 million a year for that unelected undemocratic house? There was a request by a lot of MPs to have Senator Rompkey, who is the chair of the internal board of economy for the Senate, to appear before

Act To Revoke The Conviction Of Louis David Riel  moved that Bill C-288, an act to revoke the conviction of Louis David Riel, be read the second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. Mr. Speaker, on November 28, 1985, under Standing Order 22, better known today as Standing Order 31, the Deputy Prime

Foreign Publishers Advertising Services Act   legislation, the CBC reported Wednesday. John Mayberry, president of Hamilton based Dofasco, wrote to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and three of his key ministers saying he fears the legislation would damage his steel company. Steel exports to the U.S. account for 10% of Dofasco's sales

Agriculture And Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Act   pointed out that resources were being wasted as a result of the incredible confusion with respect to inspection standards. A document from the Food Production and Inspection Branch tells us that the government expects to cut $44 million in this sector over five years, including $22

Speech From The Throne   province of Nova Scotia spawn an explosion of cultural expression and cultural achievement, Acadian and Celtic music, Scottish dance, Atlantic humour—who among us does not both love and fear “This Hour has 22 Minutes”—our vibrant visual arts, award winning film making, dynamic theatre

Supply   to it, which has complicated things enormously. What happened? The matter was approved by the local human resources development administration on January 22, 1997. Six days later, on January 28, it was given approval by the regional Société québécoise du développement de la main-d'oeuvre

Excise Tax Act   the election campaign, all of a sudden the government did a complete 180 degree turn on those types of promises. Members across the way will say that on page 22 of the red book it states that the Liberals were only going to replace the GST. The Liberals said one thing in the red book