Borrowing Authority Act, 1994-95   ago there was a comment in the editorial section of the Globe and Mail . It went something along the lines that sustained profligate borrowing by several generations of politicians is committing not only this generation but future generations of Canadians to a lower standard

Job Creation   on his election commitment by pursuing the same obsessive fight against inflation and refusing to make lowering unemployment the priority of the Bank of Canada?

Job Creation   we should not preserve what has been achieved in the fight against inflation, at the price of so much effort, as we know? Is the hon. member actually saying that we should not have low interest rates in this country? Should we not take advantage of these lower rates to stimulate

Government's Credit Rating  Mr. Speaker, there are many areas and the minister knows it. Let us think about the family trusts he is protecting in a rather special fashion. I am convinced that the reason the financial community lowered Canada's credit rating is not because we cut too much, but because we

Government's Credit Rating  Yes, I am looking at you, Mr. Speaker. It is much better than looking elsewhere. First of all, interest rates even today are much lower than they were three months, six months or a year ago. Second, as you know full well, the increase in interest rates is due to international

Government's Credit Rating  Mr. Speaker, the financial community does not go in for the florid speeches and noises we sometimes hear in this House, which take the place of monetary and fiscal policies. They spoke very toughly and very eloquently this week by lowering Canada's credit rating. There are also

Government's Credit Rating   look at what we did by lowering unemployment insurance premiums, everything we did for small and medium-sized businesses, the high-tech networks, when we look at the action plan to create jobs, it must be said that this government is doing the right thing.

Average Income Of Francophones  Mr. Speaker, this morning's Globe and Mail reported on a Statistics Canada study which found that the median income of francophone Canadians was more than 10 per cent lower in 1992 than that of anglophones. The gap has more than doubled since 1977 and it is growing wider every

Income Tax Act  . Female lone parents remain consistently less likely than other parents to be employed and there have been sharp drops in employment levels of lone parent women during the recessions in the early 1980s and the 1990s. Lone parent families have lower incomes than two parent families

Income Tax Act   as possible was going to children of single parent families. By taxing the custodial parent who is generally in a lower tax bracket rather than the child support payer, more money was left over in those times to meet the needs of the children. However much has changed since 1942. We must

Income Tax Act  . The number of tax brackets has been considerably reduced, and creditors and debtors may be subject to the same tax rates, although one may have a higher income than the other. Finally, if the non-custodial parent has a lower tax rate that the custodial parent, the total amount of taxes

Government's Credit Rating  Mr. Speaker, in lowering this rating, the DBRS was following the lead taken by another agency last year, that is to say before our budget. So, no connection can possibly be made between our budget and what has just happened. Second, this rating relates to only 2 per cent

Government's Credit Rating  Mr. Speaker, the Dominion Bond Rating Service quotes explicitly the budget as the reason for lowering the credit rating. Does the Minister of Finance not recognize that failing to take seriously our proposal, the Bloc Quebecois proposal, to review and cut the fat in federal

Supply   have reduced our spending in this area, our goal is to provide improved service to the unemployed who have lower incomes. Getting back to another point, the hon. member said we failed to control spending. Now, he is criticizing one of our spending control initiatives. Again, I ask

Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Suspension Act  Mr. Speaker, I will be very brief. At first blush, looking at the riding boundary map for the lower mainland, one questions the rational sense of how the reconfiguration of some of the boundaries will cross waterways and there is no natural geographical sense