Speech From The Throne  , however, must be addressed. The voters told us that they would no longer settle for a plan that gives members of Parliament substantially more than average Canadians. The Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act must be overhauled, not just tinkered with. It must be brought

Speech From The Throne  Sounds good to me. My concept of Canada is a Canada economically strong and self-reliant. If we are ever to achieve self-reliance we must eliminate the federal deficit. This year alone the deficit could reach $46 billion. The national debt has topped the $500 billion mark

Speech From The Throne   parties, an idea I would like to applaud. However we heard the same message in the speech from the throne in 1984. It lasted about two weeks. Let us hope it lasts longer this time. What I wish to emphasize in the strongest possible terms is that if there is no true commitment to open

Speech From The Throne   will work toward the development of an appropriate marketing strategy which not only will reach out to attract visitors from across Canada, but which will work within initiatives of the federal government to bring back to our area the American tourists and to reach out to new markets

Speech From The Throne  , to pave the way for Quebec to attain full sovereignty to put to rest once and for all the constitutional issue. Quebec sovereignty is no longer a mere matter of the heart or patriotism. It has become a matter of practicality. Following the constitutional negotiations of recent years

Speech From The Throne   me remind him that he should not mix apples with oranges. As the Official Opposition we have been saying right from the beginning that in the area of public finances we were reaching out to the government to make a democratic effort to launch a thorough review of all Canadian

Young Offenders Act  Mr. Speaker, the hon. member will recall that during the course of the election campaign the Liberal Party made clear in its platform that it proposed specific changes to the Young Offenders Act. Those changes included longer sentences for violent crime, creating the category

Environment Industry   economic sectors, with some 4,500 firms employing 150,000 people. Its annual sales are now approximately $11 billion and this figure is expected to double by the year 2000. By that year the global market for environmental technology, products and services will reach over $500 billion

Environment Industry   by a prior Liberal government and ongoing regional development grants and special tax incentives that there is frequently abuse, pork barrelling and outright waste of resources that Canada no longer has. The Reform Party will therefore be watching very carefully what impact

Speech From The Throne   problem would no longer be upon us. For that reason I think the efforts the Canadian Chamber of Commerce has under way to identify how to create one million jobs in Canada is something we in government ought to encourage and support. It is the kinds of partnerships we can build

Speech From The Throne   businesslike stand with the Americans. We can no longer tolerate being pushed around. The Americans are our friends on a personal basis but I believe when it comes to country to country relations those have to be conducted in a businesslike manner. In fact during the campaign I asked

Speech From The Throne  . If it requires investment to bring that about then I think we have to do it. If we have to use bottom line then we have to look at it in longer terms. Consider the motion that was put forward about limiting the expenditures this coming fiscal year. Without thinking that through I have

Speech From The Throne   so important? Simply because the strength of any economy no longer resides in the possession, the processing or the transformation of raw material, as the Minister of Industry indicated this morning. Competitiveness lies mainly in a worker's ability to master new production

Speech From The Throne   cost-sharing basis. That position has declined to the point where I think it is something like 30 per cent coming from the federal government and is heading in an even lower direction to the point where the federal government in a few years time will no longer be participating

Speech From The Throne   the repeated calls for one by the Leader of the Opposition at the time, Antoine-Aimé Dorion, who also happened to be a Liberal. Over and over he introduced motions calling for a popular referendum to ratify the agreement reached by the Fathers of Confederation, but such a referendum