Supply   and lower the annual deficit. The Bloc Quebecois appeals once more to this government to scrutinize all budgetary items. First of all, we should eliminate duplication, consolidate administrative units and bring about the decentralization of powers. Second, we should implement

Supply   the government is to the people, the better the program that can be delivered and the lower the costs. I have the honour of serving on the Standing Committee on Human Resources Development. I will make sure that the issue of duplication between federal programs administered by the department

Supply   a systemic unemployment rate of about 3 per cent lower than ours. Their cost of unemployment insurance as a percentage of their gross domestic product is significantly lower than ours. That is the way we are going to balance the budget. It is not going to be through trying to save

Supply   and poorer since our debt keeps on growing. If Quebec ever gains sovereignty, which I truly hope will happen, we will have to take over our share of that debt. That is why we are anxious to see the federal government lower its expenditures, so as not to keep on growing poorer every day

Income Tax Act   complicated and that is the reason why very often new tax measures bear more heavily on the middle-class since it is having a difficult time adapting rapidly to changes or even understanding quickly the tax system. Those who can benefit fully from it are the most wealthy, which causes

Income Tax Act   and, most of all, that he will not touch middle-class income, social programs or those people who have been carrying an ever-increasing tax burden since 1984, that he will not copy the previous government which, need I remind you, was erased from the federal map. Contrary to what

Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements And Federal Post-Secondary Education And Health Contributions Act   for a minority. At that time, the only university for all of the Gaspé Peninsula, the North Shore and the Lower St. Lawrence was Laval in Quebec city. The ordinary people of our regions, whom we called the poor, did not have access to that institution. It meant that only some people, part

Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements And Federal Post-Secondary Education And Health Contributions Act  Madam Speaker, I appreciated the hon. member's presentation, but I am particularly puzzled by some points in it. First, he says that if transfer payments had not been so high, people would have emigrated because of the lower payments. Perhaps they would have tried something else

Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements And Federal Post-Secondary Education And Health Contributions Act   that underlies high personal incomes. In these centres, the proximity of people lowers transportation and communication costs, allows increased specialization and creates other productivity increasing benefits like competition in markets for labour and goods and services. For this reason

Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements And Federal Post-Secondary Education And Health Contributions Act   and the neighbouring province. This is a tremendous difference. I have looked at statistics from Statistics Canada and I see that Saskatchewan residents have a lower personal income per capita than Manitoba. This seems to me to be a bizarre result and one that is in favour of his province. Does he

Equalization Payments   and Ontario are subsidizing businesses in Quebec. Could the Prime Minister confirm that equalization payments to Quebec would be much lower if corporations in Quebec paid their fair share of corporation income taxes?

West Coast Ports Operations Act, 1994   the parties. For the benefit of hon. members, let me remind you that the employer added 5 cents an hour to his initial offer, taking it to 65 cents, and the union lowered its initial demand to 75 cents, which is a big effort on their part under the circumstances. That is where matters

Lowering Of Taxes On Cigarettes  Mr. Speaker, this morning the Prime Minister said in his statement here in the House, and I quote: "Along with these resources are new strategies to crack down on organized smuggling groups and to increase surveillance of these groups". Could the Prime Minister tell us whether o

Lowering Of Taxes On Cigarettes  Mr. Speaker, we have told the RCMP officers we would support them in this difficult endeavour. We intend to do what has to be done to help them. As far as day to day strategy is concerned, that is the RCMP's responsibility, and in situations like this, it is no use giving away th

Lowering Of Taxes On Cigarettes  Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Prime Minister. On January 20 last, the Prime Minister said: "If both levels of government cannot co-operate, if one acts and the other does not, then we will not get the hoped-for results". Fifteen days later, does the Prime Minister still a