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Small business loans

    >>Limits, increase, 8763

Small Business Loans Act

    >>Lending ceiling, raising to $12 billion, 7399

Small business tax rate see Small and medium business

Small Business Week see Small and medium business> Smallwood, Clara Isabelle

    >>Death, tribute, S.O. 31, 1838-9

Smallwood, Hon. Joey see Fisheries

SMBs see Small and medium business

Smelter upgrades see Mining industry--Job creation

Smirl, Lisa see Universities/colleges--University of Manitoba, Students

Smith, Arnold see Fire-fighters--Volunteer fire-fighters

Smith Pte Smokey see Veterans--Victoria Cross recipients

Smith, Tanya see Murder

Smoking see Health--Cardiovascular disease; Tobacco products--Use

Smuggling

    >>Anti-smuggling strategy, 6865
    >>>Extending, co-ordinating with United States, S.O. 31, 7882
    >>Customs officers seizing contraband, S.O. 31, 8648
    >>South Asian human smuggling trade, petition, 8870
    >>St. Lawrence River, Akwesasne Indian Reserve and Cornwall Island, o.q., 5110-1
    >>See also Excise taxes; Gun control/guns; Immigration/immigrants--Illegal; Refugees--Criminals, Iranian cases

SNC Lavalin see Defence equipment--Ships, Minesweepers

Snow crab fishery see Fisheries, Atlantic--Fish stock management

Snow, David see Kidnapping

Snow Geese see Migratory birds--Canada-United States convention

Snow, Kevin Barry see Prime Minister's residences

Snowy Owl Foundation, S.O. 31, 6902

Social assistance see Refugees--Claimants/claims; Welfare

Social conservatism

    >>Debate, Laissez Faire Club of Ottawa, S.O. 31, 6954

Social contract see Justice system

Social development see Crime prevention

Social engineering

    >>Liberal government (Chrétien) policies, 2412, 6281

Social housing see Housing--Social

Social Insurance numbers see Family violence--Assault by estranged husbands

Social policy

    >>Principles, federal government, provinces, developing, 5, 6278
    >>Social union
    >>>Defining, promoting, preserving, 56-7, 197, 350
    >>>Ministerial council on the social union, federal-provincial, 9153-4

Social programs

    >>Affordability, 829
    >>Allmand position, 335-6
    >>Costs, 439
    >>>Taxation, future generations, impact, 341
    >>Cut-backs, 349, 2270-1, 5537
    >>>Western Premiers' Conference agenda, S.O. 31, 3310
    >>>See also Crime--Rate; Deficit--Reduction; Violence--Women
    >>Delivery, decentralization, Reform Party position, 2991
    >>Dependence on, reducing, Liberal government (Chrétien) election promise, "red book", 5844
    >>Economic policy, relationship, 7271
    >>Education and health care, priority, Reform Party position, 5861
    >>Expenditures
    >>>$4.5 billion cutback, 8323-4, 10045, 10047
    >>>>o.q., 9649
    >>>$11 billion minimum, o.q., 8445
    >>>Cutbacks, S.O. 31, 8305
    >>>Federal government transfers, $7 billion reduction, Budget 1996 proposals, 381, 801, 843, 1532, 1669, 6254, 6288, 8327
    >>>>Fortin report, 1669
    >>>>o.q., 424
    >>>>Restoring, o.q., 7237
    >>>National debt interest charges, impact, 7411
    >>>Reform Party proposals, 6734
    >>>>S.O. 31, 1704
    >>>Spending levels, public input, 7412
    >>>See also Budget--Balanced; Poverty--Government combatting
    >>Government commitment, 287, 346
    >>Government dismantling, 330
    >>Human Resources Development Department, funding, continuing, petition, 569
    >>Improvements, Budget 1996 measures, lack, 401
    >>International comparison, decline, 8790
    >>Mobility, promoting, Throne Speech proposal, 5
    >>National debt interest charges/deficit, impact, 418, 802, 1480, 1483, 1509, 1538, 2989-90, 3033, 6021, 8061, 8768, 8787, 8968, 9145, 10089
    >>>See also Social programs--Protection/sustaining
    >>National standards, 308
    >>>Federal-provincial jurisdiction, Quebec, compliance, o.q., 4071-3
    >>>Maintaining while withdrawing federal funding, 10045
    >>Priority over tax reductions, 5839
    >>Protection/sustaining, 1474, 1480, 1901
    >>>Federal government commitment, Budget 1996 statement, 373-5, 403, 411, 457, 810, 830, 841, 847-8, 1443, 1506, 1508-9, 1528, 1536-7, 1931, 9921
    >>>Liberal government (Chrétien) policies, impacts, 8334
    >>>National debt, deficit, relationship, 1473, 6284
    >>>o.q., 314
    >>>Public opinion, 456
    >>>Safety net, review, 437, 439-40
    >>>S.O. 31, 5729-30
    >>>Throne Speech statement, 1532
    >>Provincial taxation policies, relationship, 7757
    >>Reform, 829, 1509
    >>>Provinces, consultations, 6325
    >>>Unemployment insurance, reform, relationship, 2734-5
    >>>See also Social policy--Safety net
    >>Reform Party proposals, 1995 alternative taxpayers budget, impact, 293, 447, 515-6, 781-3, 1555, 2991
    >>>o.q., 425-6
    >>Safety net
    >>>Liberal government (Chrétien) policies, destroying, 1491, 8768, 8772
    >>>Preserving, 1537
    >>>Progressive Conservative government (Mulroney, Cambell), dismantling, 8766
    >>>Reforming, modernizing, 6016, 6252-3, 8341-2
    >>Universality
    >>>Ending, Budget 1996 measures, o.q., 425
    >>>Maintaining, Liberal government (Chrétien) election promise, 2989-90
    >>>Targetting to those in need, Reform Party position, 340-1
    >>Unsustainable, 2114
    >>See also Defence expenditures--Reduction; Government programs and services--Expenditures; National debt--Health and social programs; Penitentiaries--Inmates; Unemployment--Rate; Women

Social reconstruction see Sexual orientation--Canadian Human Rights Act

Social security agreements see Chile; Colombia

Social security payments see Income tax--United States

Social services

    >>Government cutback, charitable/volunteer organizations, impact, o.q., 9486-7
    >>See also Victims of crime--Services

Social union see Social policy

Social workers see Child prostitution--Training

Société de développement économique de Roussillon see Economic development--Business contacts

Société nationale des communications du Québec see Telecommunications--Call centres

Société québécoise de developpement de la main-d'oeuvre see Training programs--Jurisdiction, Quebec

Society

    >>Basic values, returning to, 4900-1

Socioeconomic Summit see Economic development/renewal--Quebec; Quebec

Socks see Economic development/renewal--Montreal, Que.; Iris Inc.

Softwear see Computers

Softwood lumber industry

    >>Exports, Canada-United States five year agreement, 282, 1438, 4517, 5303, 7302
    >>>British Columbia quota system, North American Free Trade Agreement violation, o.q., 1106
    >>>Cancellation, o.q., 6859-60
    >>>Impact, S.O. 31, 4069
    >>>Industry support, o.q., 7242
    >>>Job losses, o.q., 6860
    >>>>See also Softwood lumber industry--Exports, Small mills
    >>>o.q., 3259, 6183-4, 6908-9
    >>>Quota system, 5208, 5303
    >>>>o.q., 3873, 6063, 6188, 6264-6, 6313, 6612, 6859, 6909, 7241-2
    >>>>S.O. 31, 6182, 7137, 7305-6
    >>>Review, advisory committee, establishing, o.q., 6909
    >>>Sawmill industry position, o.q., 7241
    >>>Signing instead of filing North American Free Trade Agreement challenge, reasons, 677-8, 8155
    >>>>o.q., 138
    >>>Signing instead of filing World Trade Organization challenge, 6276
    >>>Small mills, closing, job losses, 7302
    >>>>o.q., 6266, 6313
    >>>>S.O. 31, 6179-80
    >>Exports, Canada-United States dispute, World Trade Organization referral
    >>>o.q., 3927, 6264, 6908-9
    >>>S.O. 31, 7137

Solberg, Monte (REF--Medicine Hat)

Solicitor General see Gangs--Motorcycle gangs, Annual statement

Solidarité-emploi Laurentien see Employment

Solomon, John (NDP--Regina--Lumsden)