Finance committee   opinion on that. Mr. Barr, what's happening with Bill C-293? I know it's being held up in the Senate. Why is that happening? Amanda, just quickly, I know you've been talking about lowering fees and things, and access to grants and loans, but how do we increase enrolment? That's a big

Finance committee   $300 million at the provincial level. We contested those numbers, and in actual fact we were able to prove those numbers were significantly lower than that. Even if one took that to be the case, very shortly after that, as the income trusts started to fall one after the other

Food and Drugs Act   manufacturers to the negotiation table to lower U.S. drug prices. The real leading proposal is to allow the U.S. medicare program to negotiate drug prices directly with manufacturers, which it is currently prohibited from doing. We know and the U.S. Congress knows that the issue the U.S

Finance committee   public sector clients--governments--when we don't know sometimes six months out where the priorities will be. With respect to working in partnership with lower levels of government in municipalities and provinces, that's of even more importance. I know this government is trying

Tackling Violent Crime Act  -to-10 times as long as French prisoners, the report says. “Yet these countries' rates of violent crime are lower than ours.” Since the early 1990s, U.S. crime rates have fallen sharply and are now about 40 per cent below their peak. The report says it's “tempting” to conclude

Finance committee   publishers to lower their prices. Consumers must understand that prices are set by publishers, not retailers, and at least six months before the titles arrive in a store. Therefore, due to the rapid movement in exchange rates, current prices rarely reflect current rates. The CBA has also

Environment committee  That leads me to one recommendation I would bring to the Bali negotiating team, if they're open to suggestions. The aid budgets of the Japanese and three major European nations are tied to developing lower-cost and increasing offshore supplies of coal for them to burn

Environment committee   act now. What we're saying is, help us take the initiative right now so that we aren't condemned to a much lower standard of living that we will have if, when I'm your age, I start reducing emissions to the point that is already being called for by IPCC and others.

Finance committee   of confusion. Does your organization expect that the individual paying into it would never pay tax on that money, or would it be like a regular RRSP where, once you take it out, then you pay tax on it, assuming you're in a lower tax bracket?

Environment committee  . Now you have greenhouse gas emissions that are projected to increase in India, along with a lot of dangerous pollutants. But they need the electricity. There were a lot of options that were discussed. But the EU was quite proud that they had lowered their greenhouse gas emissions

Tackling Violent Crime Act   to lower the crime rate as much as possible, and that is something the members of the Bloc Québécois work on every day. However, we must also put all this crime into perspective. I will provide another statistic. In terms of violent crime, Quebec has the second lowest rate and is just

Finance committee  . The first point would be significantly lower corporate tax rates, and the government followed suit on that in the economic statement. I notice that Mr. Del Mastro dumped all over our proposal as pandering to Bay Street tycoons, but he may have realigned his view after the government

Finance committee  , Brazil, Germany, and France, where research and development costs are much lower than in Canada. I think the program in itself is good. But in order to make sure that Canadian companies have all the incentives to continue to do the R and D here, we have to help them out. Right now

Finance committee  —of the $75-a-tonne carbon price is that the GDP would be lower by only 1.1% by 2020 than it would be in the absence of a climate change policy. I think this raises an important question. Is Canada going to forego making a real reduction in greenhouse gas emissions because

Tackling Violent Crime Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to commend the previous speaker for his speech and his understanding when it comes to dealing with crime and how to actually lower the crime rates. I dare say that the scope of the bill is problematic. It troubles me, because instead of dealing