International Trade   and dense agenda. The SPP involves the giveaway of Canada's energy and water resources and the dumbing down, the worst thing, on lowering of regulatory standards in over 300 areas, including transportation safety, food safety, consumer and environmental standards. So much for jelly

Social Housing  Mr. Speaker, in Burnaby--New Westminster and across the lower mainland the lack of affordable housing is causing a crisis. Across Canada hundreds of thousands of Canadians are without homes and many more families are in a precarious state where keeping a roof over their heads

An Act to establish the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec   of leadership in its sector and paved the way for various promising economic development projects in many regions of Quebec. In the Lower St. Lawrence region, a marine biotechnology research centre was set up with a contribution of $7.6 million from Canada Economic Development. To carry out

Income Tax Amendments Act, 2000   find ourselves. At that time the finance minister was projecting a nominal GDP growth rate or real growth of 3.5%. It is now evident that given the downturn in which we now find ourselves, that economic growth for the current calendar year will be more like 2.5% or perhaps lower

Finance committee   high that people are starting to buy in other places, especially China, where the currencies are valued much lower than the Canadian dollar. Let me give you an example. I am chairman of the board of Goodfellow Inc. in Quebec. We are not so much a sawmill as wood sellers. We even

Finance committee   income tax rates, and that has to be recognized. I'm glad to see a cross-party consensus on the fact that high corporate tax rates don't pay and lower ones in fact are generating more income tax revenue for the federal government than ever before. So I think it's important to use

Finance committee   that, in Canada, we have raised interest rates by 0.5% while the Americans have lowered theirs by 0.75%. That kind of thing clearly causes our dollar to rise. The other solution is to impose a moratorium on the mass sale of the Canadian companies we have left. It is a certainty that people

Finance committee   to call the distribution companies in this country and tell them to look at the dollar's value and sell the products they're selling in Canada now for lower prices because of the impact of the dollar's value. The market itself is not able to correct what is happening. The finance

Finance committee  Just because producers are selling their products at a lower price does not mean that consumers get the benefit. This week, pork at the farm gate was 35¢ per pound. We have not seen that for 25 years. But consumers pay the same prices in the store because of the concentration

Youth Criminal Justice Act   that the percentage in our ridings is lower than in theirs because we have agencies, we invest in our youth and we love them. Extraordinary work is being done in our society and everyone is working together. That is very important. Rather than criminalizing a young person, let us try to help them

Finance committee   policy, where the companies could invest and invest in their equipment. Now we're saying with the higher cost of the Canadian dollar and the lower cost of the U.S. dollar, companies should probably take this opportunity to invest in equipment. Is this something your companies

Finance committee  We have a limited amount of time, Mr. Pellerin. Thank you again for coming. I would like to ask you a quick question. Let us take pork as an example. You said that pork is less affected by changes in the exchange rate. But a lower market price for pork is not related

Environment committee  In 1920 it was lower.

Finance committee  , and we have had to lower all of our prices to try to be competitive. We will not be profitable, as a result. I think we're going to see a lot of smaller, independent Canadian publishers suffer, if not go away, as a result of this.

Finance committee   being decreased by as much as 25% is that it's impacting our revenues. All of our budgets are done, obviously, at the beginning of our fiscal year, if not before that. So the impact is lower revenues. But again, our costs are all static, so it's having a devastating impact