Borrowing Authority Act, 1994-95   are better than any other arrangement they have been able to work out with a senior level government. The infrastructure program is one of the first concrete examples we have seen in many years of a recognition of federal government responsibility to lower tier governments. In many

Borrowing Authority Act, 1994-95   she is talking about will have lower priority, so there is little hope for them. She also mentioned that women earn only 72 cents for every dollar men earn. I do not doubt it. What we would be entitled to expect is specific legislation and measures requiring businesses to correct

Borrowing Authority Act, 1994-95   in the workplace and their lifelong earning potential. The budget begins to address the fact that low income earners with dependants, primarily women, need a fairer system and that women live longer and have lower incomes in old age. The proposed changes to the Unemployment Insurance Act

Borrowing Authority Act, 1994-95   not jeopardize existing employees. To simply train our youth to replace at a lower wage present workers would only increase conflicts within the workforce. It is estimated that 60 per cent of youth go directly from high school to the job market. Our experience shows a high school education

Borrowing Authority Act, 1994-95   a deterrent to job creation. We have therefore decided to solve this problem by lowering these premiums to create jobs now. This measure will translate into $300 million savings for industry; $300 millions which they will be able to invest in job creation. Various measures are geared

Borrowing Authority Act, 1994-95   a positive effect on the health of the occupants. Health care costs are therefore reduced. People who live in co-operative housing are not isolated. In the long run, social housing helps to lower the cost of social services. Social housing provides senior citizens with the sense

Reorganization Of The College In Kingston   is not a report of the department. It is a report which was commissioned by the former minister who had a fixation about Quebec getting its fair share of the pie. It is true there has been a lower proportion of expenditures on defence in Quebec as a result of historical trends. However, we

The Budget   a price and that price is in investment. I believe that we need to retrain our work force in Canada. I indicated in my speech that we have to give training to the lower echelon of Canadians, those who do not currently participate in the situation. We have to give them the opportunity

The Budget   a need for it to be raised in the first place so that it can be lowered at budget time. I think that should probably suffice the hon. member.

The Budget  . The unemployment insurance program changes announced in the budget begin to target social benefits to lower income Canadians, as the minister has said, to target those most in need. This as well is a positive step. The Canadian unemployment insurance plan has become an inefficient income

The Budget   not deliver the goods. Here was your opportunity to lower the deficit to a point at which you could leave money in the hands of private enterprise so it could create long-term, meaningful jobs and it is equity capital. In the previous speech I heard the Minister of Human Resources

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, I am glad to hear the hon. member agrees with the number of jobs we will create by lowering unemployment insurance premiums, after the increase we had to introduce as soon as we came to power because of the deficit inherited from the previous government. If you look

The Budget   expenditures and increasing taxes they could lower the deficit. It did not work. This year, we have a dreadful $40 billion deficit. If we want to tackle this problem, we will have to reduce government spending. That we have already acknowledged. But we must also limit tax increases

The Budget   and seen the impact of cuts, of lower unemployment insurance premiums, of the increase in the number of weeks of work for UI eligibility and of other reform measures which have either been announced or are being planned for them by the Minister of Human Resources Development. We

The Budget   confident that the Minister of Agriculture will be quite capable of negotiating with them a bilateral agreement which will satisfy our Canadian dairy producers. However, we will have to be very careful not to give in to the constant pressures of the Americans who are asking us to lower