The Budget   point is that spending should be targeted to those in the lower income areas. We say that in virtually every social spending envelope. Significant amounts of dollars can be saved by doing it.

The Budget   and that is why I resigned. I would like to know the position of the leader of the Reform Party on this. Does he think that a big decentralization, giving much more power to the provinces, would lead to better manage- ment and more efficiency, so that expenditures would be lower

The Budget   of cuts to people who are making lower than $20,000 to $25,000. He would cut subsidies to business by $800 million. That is $200 million more than in fact is given to business through the regional agencies and basic subsidies. His arithmetic is fundamentally wrong or his understanding

The Budget   to be another billion dollars thrown at the P.E.I. bridge. Would the minister comment on whether that is the best use of taxpayers' money. Would it be better to lower taxes, thereby helping these small and medium sized businesses?

National Debt  Mr. Speaker, I might have to check some of those facts. The minister has seen interest rates in the United States begin to climb. In fact he recently mused that interest rates in Canada could soon be lower than in the United States. If the minister believes that Canadian

The Economy   tax states has been 65 per cent higher than in high tax states. There is a tradeoff however. Cutting taxes lowers the tax haul. The resultant faster growth still does not quite compensate for lost revenue and that is where the other necessary step comes in. Politicians must also

Supply   they address women. On the specific issue, if men would accept lower salaries by a global amount equal to the one that is needed to raise women's salaries until we reach it mid way, would the member accept that? I would.

Supply   members imagine who was making the lower pay. My background is education. A woman as qualified as I was when I was teaching with the same years of experience was guaranteed the exact salary. I would not have it any other way. Unfortunately it is not that way in many cases still

Supply  . Another interesting point is it seems to me when all these commissions come up with their findings they never ever say the wages in a particular category are too high and should be lowered. It is always the other way around. It is remarkable there has never been an instance in my

Supply   beyond our lower paycheques. Women still make 69 cents on the dollar of men in our society. We see it as well in the lack of commitment to women's health care needs and the controversies over breast implants, breast cancer and the overmedication of women. We see it in continued

Supply   to push women back, whereas they still have substantial gains to make. In their day-to-day lives, women are still confined to job ghettos where, of course, they earn lower wages. According to the report of the Canadian committee on the status of women, one in seven women, or 71 per

Supply  . We must not think that it is a present-day problem. Let us remind ourselves of the suffragettes who fought for the formal recognition of women's political rights. In 1931 and 1964, successive reforms to the Lower Canada civil code guaranteed full legal capacity to the married

Supply   in terms of finding real answers to it. The member also commented on the fact that women are in lower paying jobs generally. We have seen all the studies. We have looked at both sides of the issues. Let me just sum this up by saying the following. I am a high school teacher by trade. I

Petitions   their laws concerning young offenders, empowering the courts to prosecute and punish the young lawbreakers who are terrorizing our society by releasing their names and lowering the age limit to allow prosecution to meet with the severity of the crime.

Borrowing Authority Act, 1994-95   familiar must not be inflicted on another generation. We are well aware that smoking is already responsible for approximately 40,000 preventable deaths in Canada each year. We realize that with lower tobacco prices additional work very seriously needs to be done now. I am pleased