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The guy who is holding the purse strings is the Minister of Finance.

When I met with alliance representatives they said that the minister should have access through a voluntary retirement program and should make sure they have the same regulations.

Participants to the book launch were entertained by guest speakers and local performances, including bag piping, gospel singing, solo violin and theatrical performances.

We have to remind the member as well that primary health care is the responsibility of the provinces.

We are building on the success of our temporary worker program by expanding that program through regulation, for example, for sectors such as both the high tech and construction industries which are experiencing a shortage of skilled workers.

We in the NDP feel the government has strongly ignored aid and assistance to our senior citizens in its budget.

Mr. Speaker, when it comes to visiting a certain area of Jerusalem, I am informed that when Prime Minister Blair and United States President Clinton were in Israel and in that region they did not visit that area either.

There is no new program, no new measure for the shipbuilding industry.

Mr. Speaker, as you know, bank service charges are set by the private sector.

In the province of British Columbia we have two level two intensive care units for children in all of B.C.

This option, unfortunately, is becoming increasingly appealing to many young Canadians, particularly those in the high tech sector.

Special needs students are those who are psychologically disadvantaged or who have learning disabilities.

It is the cornerstone on which we should be focusing but the government is dropping the ball and doing nothing.

It has therefore developed training and awareness activities for health professionals, and it provides cancer patients and their families with information, support, documentation, and accommodation while they are receiving treatment.

Our highway system is deplorable.

Unfortunately, the fact that the federal government is contributing so little to the health care system compared with what it contributed years back is indeed something that has caused a lot of problems, long waiting lines, a lot of difficulties with our health care system.

We know that the ethics counsellor has copies of the CDC, CDC Life Sciences and the Connaught board minute meetings.

Furthermore, since 1990 American net disposable income per capita has climbed over 10%, while Canadian real disposable income has fallen by 8%.

The petitioners call upon parliament to take all measures necessary to ensure that possession of child pornography remains a serious criminal offence and that federal police forces be directed to give priority to enforcing that law.

The member will probably know that in 1997, the last year Revenue Canada reported on it, 14 million Canadian taxpayers filed income tax returns and actually paid income taxes.

I think it would be wonderful if Canadians would take the time to actually get on the Internet site and look at these budget documents and see what it is that they really say.

The foundation has been in existence for 20 years now and has taken on a lead role in the battle against cancer, with decision makers, the media, the health system and the general public.

Under Canadian heritage, grants have gone out for hanging dead rabbits in trees, for setting up a call centre for prostitution or phone sex or something like that as an art exhibit in Paris.

The bill deals with important measures, such as increasing the Canada health and social transfers, reinstating full indexation of the personal tax system, increasing the Canada child tax benefit amounts, increasing the foreign content amount for RRSPs and amending the Employment Insurance Act, among other things.

How can the Prime Minister just turn a blind eye to these activities and approve his friends' blatant abuse of spending taxpayers' money?

One can move money around in the blink of an eye.

In the province of British Columbia we have two level two intensive care units for children in all of B.C.

Behind the counter they had these little plastic shopping bags full of the standard purchase of cigarettes, so that when somebody was buying cigarettes they would get their $130 worth, which to you and me, Mr. Speaker, or anybody else who would have been buying the cigarettes, might have been worth $300.

Mr. Roy Bailey (Souris-Moose Mountain, Canadian Alliance):
Mr. Speaker, the member knows that I am from a rural area in southern Saskatchewan.

Too few to even register, according to the defence minister's own advisory board.

As these cigarettes are purchased on the reserve by status natives, the transaction is legal, according to our laws, but the second transaction, if they sell them on the street at more or less the going price for others, then that is illegal and the Minister of Finance is losing out on his tax collection, if that is happening.

That is what someone did from the Strathroy Community Resource Centre, an organization that is supposed to be ``a proactive support system for adolescents''.

Bracket creep is something that has already put one million low income workers on the tax rolls and pushed another 2.5 million taxpayers into higher tax brackets.

We have seen all of the wasteful spending, the spending not accounted for, all the grants and contributions, the political slush funds.

We cannot find out how this motorhome generated jobs because our access request is past the legal due date.

He is a class act.

A forward thinking government would certainly be moving in the direction to try to promote some of those things, rather than waiting for a crisis, waiting for an election and tossing out a few tidbits around election time.

Government revenue has increased by $40 billion since 1993, including a hike of $24 billion in personal income tax revenue.

One of them dealt with elementary and secondary education by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

It sets a sense of direction.

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Mr. Pierre de Savoye (Portneuf, BQ):
Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday, the Bloc Quebecois asked the solicitor general to launch a police investigation into the Option Canada affair.

It was the compound interest on the debt that strangled the government.

It is better to tune out what the finance minister is saying than to listen and ask where is the tax break he is talking about.

Another issue was the announcement by the government that it was going to provide assistance to professional hockey teams.

It seems the government has not had the opportunity to talk to the people in places where they have a tendency to be, the hockey games, the coffee shops in our constituencies.

Native people watch the television ads which sell everything from soup to nuts, cars, TVs, television programs and so on, but they cannot have those things.

I believe their taxes payable should be even less and that benefits for people who are in dire straits should be there.

In fact, it was 20 years ago because in February 1980 when Mr. Clark was campaigning on an 18 cent a gallon tax, he was roundly defeated by the government that then went on a spending spree for the next five years.

We know that this must be more than window dressing.

Our seniors have contributed a lot to their communities and when they get to their golden years, they should not have to be concerned or worried about their next meal.

We hope that the comments of Canadians, such as the comments that I read earlier, will be taken to heart and the government will look at those things in a meaningful way and try to do what is best for our country.

Mrs. Marlene Jennings:
Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order.

Government revenue has increased by $40 billion since 1993, including a hike of $24 billion in personal income tax revenue.

If someone wanted to trade some fresh fish from the Athabaska Lake or Great Slave Lake, they could hook up on the Internet and trade with Hong Kong, Germany or wherever.

At one point, the Minister of Canadian Heritage was forced to run in a by-election as a sort of validation of the change of direction, but the Prime Minister carries on as before.

The minister kept the study under wraps.

For 21 years my signature went on forms to extract money from taxes and government grants for special education students.

On the subject, the next day, of the lake of Tiberias where Christ walked on the waters, this tireless blunderer, tiptoeing on the eggs of an ultra sensitive matter, went in up to his neck, this time offending Syria before the dumbfounded gaze of international opinion, which did not really consider him capable of such a singular hat trick.

An example that comes to mind is the TAGS program.

Canada continues to be an active member of committees promoting peace and the peace process in that region.

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Mr. Pierre de Savoye (Portneuf, BQ):
Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday, the Bloc Quebecois asked the solicitor general to launch a police investigation into the Option Canada affair.

I read in the paper yesterday that it may give the city of Montreal $300 million to $100 million because it has traffic jams.

I recall the letter written by the present Prime Minister to minister Valcourt protesting the way he had begun to make cuts to employment insurance and to tighten up the eligibility requirements.

Again this is arithmetic that a grade school student could understand.

It relates to two families, the Irimie and Kutas families who suffered persecution in their country of origin and who fear that will happen to them again if they return home.

We have seen the provincial health ministers band together in perhaps an unprecedented fashion.

Time after time the phone calls I receive have one theme, that people's take home pay is dwindling.

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Mr. Stéphane Bergeron (Verchères-Les-Patriotes, BQ):
Mr. Speaker, the Income Tax Act gives the Minister of National Revenue all the powers necessary to shed light on allegations of tax evasion.

While the minister is correct in stating that trains helped build the country, we need to remind him that train travel has changed over the last 120 years.

They did not choose to focus on any disadvantaged group, but rather to choose a holistic approach and encourage volunteers to help all social groups and all ages.

The petitioners say that this is an inappropriate intrusion and it is discriminatory for the federal government to extend benefits based on a person's private sexual activity.

I am requesting the consent of the House of Commons to deem Bill C-388 votable, to deem it adopted at second reading and to refer it to the Standing Committee on Health.

We hope that these programs will not be focused only on major infrastructure projects like highways, but that the programs will reach into the communities to assist them with the goals and objectives which are meaningful to them, such as community centres and structures to assist our young people and our children, the real heartthrob of our country, to give them the recreational and educational opportunities that are needed.

Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36 many petitioners from the province of Ontario state that since Canada has the second highest incidence rate of breast cancer in the world, they call upon parliament to enact legislation to establish an independent governing body to develop, implement and enforce uniform mandatory mammography quality assurance and quality control standards in Canada.

Many of our university students are coming out of university with a debt load of anywhere from $25,000 upward.

What dreams do the high school students and the junior high school students have when they see that only a selected few will be able to continue their journey to higher education?

The petitioners call upon the government to make it illegal for any company operating passenger trains to dump waste water along the tracks in our country.

It is hard to get a hospital bed.

Mr. Deepak Obhrai:
Mr. Speaker, what my hon. colleague has said is just one example of the waste of money that has been going on.

Ms. Val Meredith (South Surrey-White Rock-Langley, Canadian Alliance):
Before the Prime Minister goes any further in destroying diplomatic relations, perhaps his deputy would tell the House, just how many years will the Prime Minister set back diplomatic relations in the Middle East?

Some 226 teams will be taking part in these provincial ice hockey championships in 13 cities in the region.

I hope the members on the other side have taken note.

It seems the government has not had the opportunity to talk to the people in places where they have a tendency to be, the hockey games, the coffee shops in our constituencies.

We ought to get some people running the government who act like business people, whose objectives and primary goals are to do what is right for the people, to manage the economic affairs of the country properly.

By law, the employment insurance program is a flow-through, break even program, an insurance program.

I had an occasion to stop at a gas station on a first nations reserve.

With respect to the debt, it says ``Net public debt''.