Regan, Geoff (L--Halifax West)

>>Aboriginal peoples, 8956-9
>>Air pollution, 16859
>>Airline industry, o.q., 16611
>>Airports, 223
>>Atlantic Groundfish Strategy (TAGS), 13402
>>Atlantic provinces, 223
>>Atlantic Venture Capital Fund, o.q., 15405
>>Auditor General Act (amdt.)(Bill C-83), 14567-70, 16756-7
>>Bloc Québécois, S.O. 31, 8242
>>Budget Implementation Act, 1995 (Bill C-76), 13330-2
>>Business, 6155, 13330
>>Cabinet ministers, 224
>>Canada Employment Centres, 16523
>>Canada Health and Social Transfer, 13330-1
>>Canada Student Financial Assistance Act (Bill C-28), 4351-4
>>Canada Student Loans Program, M. (Manning), 7056-7
>>Canadian Armed Forces, 13332
>>>o.q., 12375
>>Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, S.O. 31, 7307
>>Child care, 16523
>>Child support payments, M. (Gaffney), 3555-7
>>Consumers, 6154-5
>>Criminal Code (amdt.--sentencing)(Bill C-41), 13795
>>Criminal Code (amdt.--violent crimes)(Bill C-301), 13504-5
>>Defence policy, M. (Collenette), 1534
>>Deficit, 13330
>>Department of Human Resources Development Act (Bill C-96), 16522-4
>>Department of Industry Act (Bill C-46), 6154-5
>>Earth Day, S.O. 31, 11804
>>Economic G-7 Summit (1995), S.O. 31, 13717
>>Economy, 13331
>>Education, 4353
>>Education, post-secondary, 4352
>>Employment, 4353
>>Environment, 14567-8, 16756-7
>>Estimates, M. (Eggleton), 13402-3
>>Exports, 13331
>>Federal-provincial relations, S.O. 31, 16829
>>Fiscal policy, 13330
>>Fisheries, Atlantic, 223
>>Food banks, 3556
>>>S.O. 31, 2120
>>Foreign Affairs and International Trade Standing Committee, reports, 13443
>>Gasoline/automotive fuels, 16859-60
>>Government departments, boards, agencies and commissions, 14568-70
>>Government expenditures, 13330
>>Government programs and services, 13330
>>Grain transportation, 13332
>>Haiti, 16293
>>Halifax, N.S., S.O. 31, 9942
>>Halifax West constituency, 222-3
>>>S.O. 31, 6329, 6977
>>House of Commons, o.q., 10005
>>Housing, 16291
>>Human Resources Development Department, 16522
>>Human Resources Investment Fund, 16523
>>Income tax, 3556, 13331
>>Industry, 6155
>>Industry Department, 6154
>>Infrastructure program, 223, 236-7
>>Interest rates, 13330
>>International development assistance, 15326-7
>>>o.q., 15294, 16327
>>Job creation, 223, 13331
>>>S.O. 31, 7031
>>Justice system, 13504-5, 13795
>>Kilgour, references, 222
>>Knowles, Hon. Stanley, 222
>>Legislation, 236
>>Manganese-based Fuel Additives Act (Bill C-94), 16859-60
>>Manpower, M. on supply (Lalonde), 17227-8, 17241-2
>>Mortgages, 16289-93
>>Municipal infrastructure, M. (Gilmour), 16648-9
>>National Defence Department, petition, 14933
>>National Housing Act (amdt.)(Bill C-108), 16289-93
>>Nordic Challenger, S.O. 31, 5721
>>Pictou Landing Indian Band Agreement Act (Bill C-60), 8956-9
>>Pornography, S.O. 31, 17701
>>Poverty, 3556
>>Private family trusts, 13331
>>Procedure
>>>Decorum, 16291
>>>Speeches, 13330, 17241
>>Public Service, 13330
>>Quebec, M. (J. Chrétien), 17330-1
>>Quebec sovereignty referendum (1995), S.O. 31, 16021
>>Railways, o.q., 10903
>>References, maiden speech, 222
>>Search and rescue, S.O. 31, 17230
>>Sexual orientation, 13795
>>>Petitions, 8887, 12544
>>Small business, 13331
>>Social security system, 16522
>>South Africa, S.O. 31, 3699
>>Sustainable development, 14568-70, 16756-7
>>Throne Speech, Address in Reply, M. (Jackson), 222-4, 236-7
>>TOUGHLOVE, S.O. 31, 9597
>>Trade, o.q., 9280
>>Training programs, 16522
>>Unemployment insurance, 16523, 17227-8, 17241-2
>>Witness Protection Program Act (Bill C-78), 15266-9
>>Women, M. (Finestone), 8717
>>Young offenders, petitions, 13055
>>Youth Service Corp, 16523

Régie des télécommunications see Telecommunications

Regina--Lumsden constituency

>>Described, etc., 534

Regina NewGrade Upgrader see Energy--Megaprojects

Regina Rams see Football

Regina riot (1935) see "On to Ottawa" Trek

Regina, Sask. see Football--Grey Cup 1995

Regina v. Lithium see Sexual offenders

Regina--Wascana constituency

>>Described, etc., 72
>>Social security system, 223

Regional development

>>Agencies
>>>Rationalization, 11398, 11827
>>>Role, 12646
>>Atlantic provinces
>>>Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency/Atlantic Groundfish Strategy/Federal Office of Regional Development-Quebec, complimentary roles, 5556-7
>>>Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, role, success, o.q., 15105
>>>See also Atlantic provinces--Economic development--Regional development; Economic development--Atlantic provinces
>>Auditor General's report, 1994-1995, 16606
>>British Columbia, history, 4781-2
>>Co-ordination
>>>Federal government agencies, 4734
>>>Federal government departments, refusal/failure, 4736
>>>Federal, provincial governments, 4786
>>>Regional Industrial Expansion Department, failure, 4734
>>Competition, unfair, creating, 4796
>>Definition, 4752
>>Federal government, intervention, 46, 86, 90, 8763, 8773-4, 13135-6
>>"Granterpreneurship", 4790, 4794-5
>>Grants
>>>Elimination, 8508-10, 8534-5
>>>>Canadian Federation of Independent Business, position, S.O. 31, 8628
>>>>o.q., 8635-6
>>>>Reform Party position, 4738, 4741
>>>>>S.O. 31, 8629
>>>Regional distribution, equality, 4744-5
>>>Replacing with loans, 11288
>>>Transfer to municipalities or regions directly, 4754
>>Infrastructure in place, maintaining, importance, 4735, 4780
>>Infrastructure program, role, 4739, 4757
>>Investment, tax deductible venture capital, need, 4752-3
>>Jurisdiction, federal-provincial dispute, 4735, 4765, 4789, 4791, 6151, 6166, 6764, 7245
>>>Federal government withdrawal, 13135-6
>>>>o.q., 9728
>>Liberal government (Trudeau), project, 4791
>>Liberal Party, election promises, 4795-6
>>Loans Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Federal Office of Regional Development-Quebec, WEstern Economic Diversification Program, national small business loans program alternative, 15912-3, 15938
>>>Repayable policy, enforcement, o.q., 16667
>>>See also Regional development--Grants
>>Montreal, Que., 4755-6
>>>$150 million fund, 4754
>>>CDECs, federal funding, o.q., 10661
>>>Pichette Task Force report, 4755
>>>See also Economic development--Montreal, Que.
>>National, equitable basis, 6125
>>Ontario, 6232
>>Patronage, opportunites, 6792
>>Programs/policies
>>>Approach, change, harmonization, 4764-5, 4786, 4789, 4798
>>>Centralization, 4737-8, 4765, 4789, 13429
>>>Consultation, planning, inadequate, 4764, 4793, 4799
>>>Decentralization, 4753, 4765-6, 4779-80, 4789-90, 10314
>>>Discriminatory, 4744
>>>Effectiveness, 15993
>>>Elimination, cost-savings, 1812
>>>Expenditures
>>>>$560 million reduction, Feb. 27/95 budget measures, 11395, 11827
>>>>Increase, 4753
>>>Failure, 4752, 4765, 4787, 4796, 6165
>>>Federal-provincial co-operation, 4752-3, 4756, 4757-8, 4785
>>>Federal-provincial overlap, 4739, 4758, 4761, 4764-5, 4785-6, 4789, 4795, 4798
>>>Inefficiencies, condemning, 4759, 4799, 4912
>>>>M. on supply (Crête), 4734-67, 4779-801
>>>>o.q., 5214
>>>>S.O. 31, 4769
>>>Job creation purpose, 4752, 4786, 4792-3, 4797, 4800, 12084
>>>Maintaining, strengthening, 17688
>>>Marketplace, distorting, 16770-1
>>>Rationale, flaws, 1119-20
>>>Regional control, 4734, 4737, 4752-4, 4784
>>>Regional priorities, 4184, 4735, 4737
>>Quebec, 4744, 4752, 4761-2, 4796-7, 4799-4800, 6160, 6165-6, 6232, 6761-4, 6793-4, 7245, 7513, 8533, 10456, 16721-2
>>>Budget, Feb. 27/95, impact, 12048-9
>>>Eastern Quebec Development Plan, 4735, 13342
>>>Eastern Quebec, funding, 3692
>>>>S.O. 31, 5094
>>>Emigration, 4792-3, 4798
>>>Federal government interference/withdrawal, Bloc Québécois position, 12049-50, 13089-91, 13109
>>>>Industry Department reorganization, relationship, 13090-1
>>>>o.q., 13047
>>>Federal Office for Regional Development (Quebec), role, 5556, 12049-50, 13109, 13111, 13113, 13143-5
>>>>o.q., 7371, 9949
>>>>S.O. 31, 8994
>>>Gaspé Peninsula and Lower St. Lawrence region, tourism development, 4736
>>>Government programs, 85-7, 8764-7
>>>Idée-PME loan program, Federal Office of Regional Development-Quebec (FORD-Q)-Business Development Bank of Canada program, S.O. 31, 16959
>>>Innovation, market development and entrepreneurship focus, S.O. 31, 13122
>>>Interprovincial trade barriers, impact, 4738, 14119
>>>Jurisdiction, 86, 6120-1, 6128-30, 6158-61, 8528-33, 8763-7, 8771-5
>>>>o.q., 5152-3, 7371
>>>>S.O. 31, 714, 1229, 7309
>>>Kamouraska--Rivière-du-Loup constituency, drill hall construction/Gros-Cacouna harbour development, priority, 4734-5
>>>Laurentian region, 4763-4
>>>North Shore, 4756
>>>Regional consultation and development councils, Federal Office of Regional Development, duplication, 4735-6, 4764-5
>>>Saguenay--Lac Saint-Jean region, 4009
>>>Urban areas, Corporations de développement économique et communautaires
>>>>Role, Pichette Task Force recommendation, 4755
>>>See also Regional development--Montreal
>>Railway branch line abandonment, impact, o.q., 9062
>>Reform Party position, 4912, 6767, 6791
>>Regional needs, responding to, inadequacies, 4734
>>Tax credits, use, failure, 8561-2
>>United States, comparison, 4784
>>See also Air transportation--Economic benefits; Atlantic provinces; Canada Post Corporation; Canadian National Railways--Privatization/commercialization; Corporations--Income tax; Defence equipment--Procurement policy; Economic development; Hyundai Auto Canada; Job creation; Post offices; Rail passenger service--Gaspé Peninsula; Railways; Social security system--Reform, Transfer payments to provinces; Trade--Interprovincial trade, Internal trade agreement; VIA Rail Canada Inc.--Mandate

Regional differences

>>Accommodating, 3092
>>Diversity, 17548

Regional disparities

>>Budget, Feb. 22/94, impact, 1788
>>Eliminating, 4752, 6172-3
>>Equalization payments, reducing, 1044, 1120-2
>>See also Social security program

Regional Industrial Expansion Department see Regional development--Co-ordination

Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton see Infrastructure program

Regional representation see Electoral boundaries

Regionalism see Government

Registered personal security plan (RPSP)

>>Unemployment insurance and retirement savings plans replacement, establishing, Reform Party proposal, 11440, 16452, 17211
>>>M. on supply (Ablonczy), 10647-55, 10671-82

Registered Retirement Income Funds see RRIFs

Registered Retirement Savings Plans see RRSPs

Registration number see Business--Single government registration number

Regulations

>>1986, recommendations, 14914
>>Deregulation see Railways
>>Development process, public input, 8658
>>Economic Council of Canada, 1978, recommendations, 14913-4
>>Legislation, Bill C-62
>>>o.q., 11677-8
>>>Standard substitution bill, 15124-5
>>>See also Regulatory Efficiency Act (Bill C-62)
>>Legislation, Bill C-84, repealing Statutory Instruments Act, 15119-33
>>>See also Regulations Act (Bill C-84)
>>Ministerial task force review, 1984, recommendations, 14914
>>Review process, Senate, excluding, Bloc Québécois position, 8656-7
>>"Waiving Compliance with Regulatory Requirements", S.O. 31, 4577
>>See also Air pollution; Atomic Energy Control Board; Canadian National Railways--Privatization/commercialization; Customs Tariff; Energy sector; Environment; Farmers; Financial institutions; Gun control/guns; Housing; Income tax--Conventions/protocols with other countries; Insurance companies; Mining industry; National Energy Board; Oceans--Canadian jurisdiction; Railways--Branch line abandonment; Referendum Act; Small business; Small Business Loans Act; Transportation

Regulations Act (Bill C-84)--Minister of Justice (Rock)

>>First reading, 11815
>>Government Operations Standing Committee, referral forthwith, notice, 11815, M. (Rock), 15119-33, agreed to, on recorded division, 15138
>>See also Oceans--Canadian jurisdiction; Regulations--Registration and review

Regulatory Efficiency Act (Bill C-62)--President of the Treasury Board (Eggleton)

>>First reading, 8662
>>See also Environment--Protection; Oceans--Canadian jurisdiction; Regulations--Legislation

Regulatory impact analysis statements see Environment Department

Rehabilitation see Alcohol abuse/addiction; Criminals; Drug abuse; Young offenders

Reid, Angus see Multiculturalism

Reilly, Eric

>>Reform Party organizer, death, tribute, S.O. 31, 15519

Religious leaders

>>Tribute, S.O. 31, 5423

Remembrance Day

>>Poppies, symbol, S.O. 31, 7500
>>Public Service designated holiday, legislation, Bill C-251, 4305, 6886-94
>>>Remembrance Day Act (Bill C-289)(3rd Sess., 34th Parl.), relationship, 4305, 6886
>>>See also Remembrance Day Act (Bill C-251)
>>Tributes to veterans of World War I, World War II, Korean War, and peacekeeping operations, moment of silence, 16443-5
>>Veterans, World War I, World War II and Korean War, honouring, 7696-7
>>>S.O. 31, 7552, 7626, 7681, 7683, 16358, 16432, 16477-8, 16480
>>Women, war efforts, commemorating, S.O. 31, 7625
>>See also National Veterans Week

Remembrance Day Act (Bill C-251)--MacDonald

>>First reading, 4305
>>Second reading, 6886-94
>>>Dropped from Order Paper, 6894
>>See also Remembrance Day--Public Service designated holiday

Remembrance Day Act (Bill C-289)(3rd Sess., 34th Parl.) see Remembrance Day--Public Service designated holiday

Remembrance Week see National Veterans Week

Renewable energy see Alternative and renewable energy

Renovations see RRAP

Rent control see Employment equity

Rental housing see Housing

Réparaction see Housing--Renovations

Replacement workers see Labour disputes

Report of the Future of Lighthouse Stations in British Columbia see Lighthouses--Destaffing

Representation by population see Electoral boundaries

Reproductive technologies

>>Legislation, regulatory
>>>o.q., 1107, 3879, 6716-7, 8479, 8753, 8998, 10665-6
>>>S.O. 31, 9649, 14220
>>Research, Criminal Code amendments addressing, o.q., 1107, 3573-4, 3878-9
>>Royal Commission recommendations, action, request
>>>o.q., 8479
>>>S.O. 31, 8423
>>See also Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies

Resch, Jason see Rodeo--Canadian high school championships

Research and development

>>Business/private sector participation, 1149, 1776, 8058
>>Canadian subsidiaries, foreign-owned corporations, 2155-6, 6161
>>Centres of excellence program, 16600
>>>Phase II, funding, 1777
>>Commercialization of Research in Canada, The, report, 16600
>>Education, post-secondary, relationship, voucher system proposal, 16600
>>Engineers and Scientists Program, establishing, 1710, 2241, 2245
>>>Small and medium sized business, access, 2241
>>Entrepreneurship, venture capital, role, 16599
>>>Digital Equipment Corporation example, 16599
>>Expenditures, 1152, 6768
>>>Distribution, equitable, ensuring, 696
>>>>o.q., 388-9
>>>Increasing, 16601
>>>>o.q., 388
>>>Ontario, 1041, 2077-8
>>>Provincial comparisons, 1113-4
>>>Quebec, 176-7, 696, 1041, 1043-4, 1050, 1052, 1115, 1820, 1848, 2077-8, 2106, 4762, 11578, 13246
>>>>o.q., 7373, 15100-1, 15103-4, 15106, 15294-5, 15346
>>Federal funding
>>>Cut-backs, 8051, 10449, 11578
>>>S.O. 31, 1499
>>>Withdrawal, Feb. 22/94 budget measure, 1710, 1788, 1932, 2116-8, 2156, 2644, 3109
>>Government commitment, 1928-9, 3909-10, 6147, 6164
>>>o.q., 13479
>>Government contracts
>>>Information, R & D Bulletin, 4804
>>>Quebec share, o.q., 13130-1
>>Importance, 175, 1871, 1938, 6148, 6163, 6168
>>>S.O. 31, 381
>>KAON particle accelerator project, University of British Columbia facility, 88, 841
>>Montreal, Que., funding, S.O. 31, 224
>>National Research Council role, 2155, 6162
>>New product creation, 1776, 3063
>>>Technology Partnership Program, role, 1777
>>Partnerships, universities/research institutions/private sector, government encouraging, 2105, 6125, 8643
>>>Throne Speech proposal, 10, 1198
>>Private sector
>>>Expenditures, 2330
>>>See also Research and development--Universities-private sector co-operation
>>Production creation/export, Newfoundland companies participation, 2053-5
>>Research support programs, small business accessibility, o.q., 1240
>>Science and engineering infrastructure, development, relationship, 16525
>>Scientific research and experimental development tax credit, 1779, 4411, 15492
>>>Expenditure limits, 8555, 8589
>>>Legislation, Bill C-9, implementing, 1277, 1286, 1289, 3194-5
>>>o.q., 8295, 12111
>>>Quebec benefits, lack, 1286-7
>>>Rate, reducing to 20%, 8561, 9766, 9768
>>>Rebates, retroactive repayment demands, National Revenue Department action
>>>>o.q., 13323-4
>>>>S.O. 31, 13319
>>>Regional component, eliminating, 8555, 8589, 9768
>>Small business participation, increasing, 1776
>>Strategy, Budget, Feb. 22/94, measures, 1710, 1737
>>Superconductors, TRIUMF project, University of British Columbia facility, 88, 841
>>Tax credits, 14029
>>>See also Research and development--Scientific research and experimental development tax credit; Scientific Research Tax Credit
>>Tax incentive programs, review, Feb. 27/95 budget statement, 10101, 11275-6, 11578
>>Tax incentives, 17727-8
>>Technological innovations, small business role, 2156
>>Technology Partnership Program, university-government, establishing, 1710, 1767, 1816
>>Training, funding, o.q., 9536
>>University-private sector co-operation, 16600-1, 16608
>>>Innovation Place, Saskatoon, Sask., example, 16600
>>See also Aerospace industry; Agricultural research; Alternative and renewable energy; Canada Investment Fund; Defence equipment--Cruise missiles; Defence industry; Defence Industry Productivity Program; Defence research; Drugs and pharmaceuticals; Economic development; Environment; Ericsson Communications; Fisheries, Atlantic--Groundfish, Resource depletion; Housing; Industrial Research and Development Institute; Maple syrup industry; Natural resources; Nuclear energy; Oceans--Canadian jurisdiction; Science and technology; Taxation; Transportation; University research