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Wage subsidies see Employment insurance--Parents returning to workforce

Wagemaker, Tony see Canadian Executive Services Overseas--International services

Wages and salaries

    >>Minimum wage, 3754-7
    >>>Federal
    >>>>Aligning with provinces, 5895-6, 5902, 5904, 6047, 6075
    >>>>Increasing, 3752-3, 3756, 5780, 5893-4, 5901-2
    >>>>Jurisdiction, 5782, 5894, 5900-1
    >>>Poverty line, relationship, 5777, 5781, 5897
    >>>>National Council of Welfare, report, 3755-6
    >>>Provinces, rates, variation, 5777-8, 5781, 5986
    >>>>Harmonizing, 5895
    >>>>Labour mobility, impact, 5778-9, 5896-7
    >>>See also Canada Labour Code (amdt.--minimum wage)(Bill C-35)
    >>Real wages, decline, 349
    >>See also Bankruptcy and insolvency; Canadian Armed Forces--Salaries; Judges--Salaries; Labour unions--mandate; Members of Parliament--Salaries; Poverty--Working poor; Women

Wages Liability Act (amdt.--definition of adult)(Bill C-436)--Harb

Wainwright, Alta. see Peregrine falcons

Wal-Mart see Trade--Cuba, United States aircraft shot down

Walden, Ont. see Science and technology--Neutrino observatory

Walker, David (L--Winnipeg North Centre)

    >>Canada Pension Plan, M. on supply (Manning), 8678
    >>Industry Standing Committee, reports, 3497, 7088, 8017, 10143
    >>Procedure, Committee reports, 7974
    >>Standards Council of Canada Act (amdt.)(Bill C-4), 3497
    >>Throne Speech, Address in Reply M. (Sheridan), 64-6

Walker, Michael see Newfoundland

Walker, Roy see Canadian Executive Service Organization

Walt Disney World see Postage stamps--Winnie the Pooh

Wampum see Indians/First Nations

Wappel, Tom (L--Scarborough West)

    >>Abortion, 95
    >>>Petitions, 2315, 3141
    >>Budget 1996, M. (P. Martin), 1576-9
    >>Canada Elections Act (amdt.--review of nomination papers)(Bill C-210), 95-6
    >>Canadian Human Rights Act (amdt.)(Bill C-33), 2396-7, 2400, 2421, 2545-8, 2550, 2576, 2580
    >>Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act (amdt.--recommendations of the Review Committee)(Bill C-207), 95
    >>Capital punishment, 4586
    >>Child sexual abuse/assault/exploitation, 95
    >>Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act (amdt.--nutritional value of food)(Bill C-209), 95
    >>Crime, 94, 2840-3
    >>>Petitions, 4349, 4570-1, 8956
    >>Criminal Code (amdt.--human being)(Bill C-208), 95
    >>Criminal Code (amdt.--judicial review of parole ineligibility)(Bill C-45), 4572-3, 4581-6
    >>Criminal Code (amdt.--offence committed outside Canada)(Bill C-206), 95
    >>Criminal Code and Copyright Act (amdt.--profit from authorship respecting a crime)(Bill C-205), 94, 2840-3, 4660-1, 9580
    >>Discrimination and racism, 2576
    >>Divorce, petition, 8956
    >>Elections, 95-6
    >>Hungarians, petition, 883
    >>Hungary, S.O. 31, 3815
    >>Marriage (Prohibited Degrees) Act and Interpretation Act (amdt.)(Bill C-340), 5609
    >>Murder, 4572, 4583
    >>Parole, 4572-3, 4581-6
    >>Procedure
    >>>Bills, Government, 2400, 2421
    >>>Bills, Private Members' Public, 9579-80
    >>>Divisions, recorded, 6816
    >>>Language, inappropriate/improper, 2547
    >>>Members' remarks, 2546
    >>>Speeches, 2580
    >>Same-sex couples, 2397, 2550
    >>Security Intelligence Review Committee, 95
    >>Sexual orientation, 2397, 2545-6, 2548
    >>>Petitions, 883, 2315
    >>Suicide, petitions, 97, 4570
    >>Young Offenders Act, petition, 883
    >>Young offenders, petition, 4570

War

    >>Definition, "when a parent buries a child", 1870

War crimes

    >>Bosnian war criminals in Canada, refugee claimants, deportation, etc., o.q., 9746-7
    >>Deportation of alleged Nazi war criminals, trials, etc.
    >>>Dueck, Johann, Helmut Oberlander, Erichs Tobiass, Justice Department Assistant Deputy Minister Ted Thompson meeting with Federal Court of Canada Chief Justice Julius Isaac, judicial independence factor, etc., 4034-5
    >>>>Canadian Judicial Council role, holding inquiry, 3139-40
    >>>>>o.q., 3087, 3128, 3204, 3256
    >>>>Cases, impact on, motion for stay of proceedings, 3137-8
    >>>>>o.q., 3316
    >>>>Inquiry, Charles Dubin, former Ontario Chief Justice conducting, making report public, etc., 3138-9
    >>>>>o.q., 3204-6, 3255-6, 3316, 4941-2
    >>>>Jerome, Associate Chief Justice James, role, 3139
    >>>>>o.q., 3087, 3204, 3255
    >>>>Law Society of Upper Canada, role, 3138
    >>>>Leave of absence, Ted Thompson taking, 3138-9
    >>>>o.q., 3087-8, 3128, 3204-6, 3255-6, 3315-6, 4941-2
    >>>>Reed, Justice Barbara, letters to Justice MInister Rock and Toronto Star re fear of making decision unfavourable to government, o.q., 4940-1
    >>>>Rock, Justice Minister, knowledge, 3139-40
    >>>>>o.q., 3205-6, 3256, 3315-6
    >>>>Statement by Minister (Rock), 3137-40
    >>>>Supreme Court of Canada referral factor, 3138-9, 4942
    >>>>>o.q., 3255-6
    >>>Finta, Imre, case, Supreme Court of Canada decision, o.q., 7579, 9218
    >>>Government commitment, o.q., 7579, 9218-9
    >>>Kalejs, Konrads, delays, o.q., 714-5
    >>Deschenes Commission report, o.q., 9218-9
    >>Prosecuting alleged war criminals in Canada
    >>>o.q., 9218
    >>>Trudeau, former Prime Minister Pierre refusal, o.q., 7579
    >>Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation of alleged war criminals, laxity
    >>>o.q., 9218
    >>>S.O. 31, 9211-2
    >>Strategy, January 1995 announcement, 6865
    >>War criminals, suspects, refugee status, claiming, denial, government action, lack, o.q., 7887
    >>See also Bosnia and Herzegovina--Civil war; Holocaust--Nuremberg international war crimes tribunal; International criminal court; Rwanda--Civil war; Sexual assault/offences--Degrading nature; United Nations International Commission on War Crimes for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda

War dead see Veterans

War disability pensions see Veterans benefits

War Measures Act

    >>Liberal government responsibility, peacetime use, 5079
    >>See also Grain marketing--Canadian Wheat Board monopoly

War veterans see Veterans

War veterans allowances see Veterans benefits

Warkentin, Peter see Parole--Murderers, Repealing

Warrants see Justice system--Accused's failure to appear--Documents; Police

Washington, D.C. see Canada-United States relations--Chrétien; Developing countries--Microcredit; Manning--References; Members of Parliament--Travel; Quebec--International role

Water

    >>Canada-United States Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909, International Joint Commission, 518
    >>Export, interbasin transfers, prohibiting, legislation, 9829-39
    >>>See also Canada Water Export Prohibition Act (Bill C-232)
    >>Fluoridation, petition, 5173
    >>Fresh water science, Freshwater Institute, Canadian Centre for Inland Waters, budget cuts, 2469-70
    >>>o.q., 1662-3
    >>>S.O. 31, 3814
    >>Management, Nunavut Territory, Nunavut water board, membership, mandate, 5464-5, 5469-71, 5486-7
    >>World fresh water supply, 20% in Canada, 18% in Great Lakes, 322, 324-5
    >>See also Drinking Water Materials Safety Act (Bill C-76); Great Lakes--Canada-United States water quality agreement; Middle East--Peace process

Water pollution see Great Lakes; Harbours, wharves and breakwaters--Sorel, Que.; Humber River--Black Creek; St. Lawrence River--Clean-up

Watergate see Somalia--Canadian Armed Forces peacekeeping operation, Documents

Waterhen Indian Reserve

    >>Dispute between factions, S.O. 31, 9443

Waterloo, Ont.

    >>Waterloo, Que, twinning, national unity, promoting, S.O. 31, 4172
    >>See also Municipalities--International exchanges; Sexual assault offences--Victims; Victims of crime--Services; Young offenders--Youth in Conflict with the Law program

Waterloo Region Community Safety and Crime Prevention Council see Crime prevention

Waters, Hon. Senator Stan

Watson, Darren see Break and enter

Wayne, Allan see Dangerous/high-risk offenders

Wayne, Allen Jr., Allen and Debbie see Victims of crime

Wayne, Elsie (PC--Saint John)

    >>Bell, Tom, 6374-5
    >>Bourque, James W., 5566
    >>Canada Marine Act (Bill C-44), 9699
    >>Canada, petition, 1899
    >>Canada Transportation Act (Bill C-14), 1085-8
    >>Canadian Armed Forces, S.O. 31, 2754
    >>Canadian Executive Services Overseas, S.O. 31, 1884
    >>Canadian International Development Agency, qu., 1471
    >>Canadian War Museum
    >>>o.q., 8736
    >>>S.O. 31, 3123
    >>Cape Breton Development Corporation, S.O. 31, 2135
    >>Caron, André, references, 7582-3
    >>Children, petition, 10147
    >>Constitution, M. (Rock), 3370
    >>Copyright, S.O. 31, 5593-4
    >>Dairy products, petition, 3324
    >>Education, 3370
    >>Employment insurance, S.O. 31, 4978, 7653
    >>Excise Tax Act, Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act, Income Tax Act and Debt Servicing and Reduction Account Act (amdt.)(Bill C-70), 7896-8, 7976-7, 7982
    >>Fawcett. Norman, 7721
    >>Ferry service, S.O. 31, 10112
    >>Fire-fighters, S.O. 31, 2428-9
    >>Fisheries, S.O. 31, 354
    >>Ghiz, Hon. Joseph, 6376
    >>Gillis, Carl, 3090
    >>Goods and Services Tax, 6517-8, 7896-8, 7976-7, 7982
    >>>o.q., 6064
    >>>Petition, 7927
    >>>S.O. 31, 1584, 7232-3
    >>Government expenditures, S.O. 31, 8189
    >>Health care system, S.O. 31, 8006
    >>Highways and roads, petition, 7927
    >>Infrastructure program, S.O. 31, 6786
    >>Irish Canadians, S.O. 31, 704
    >>Job creation, S.O. 31, 6786
    >>Justice system, S.O. 31, 8267-8
    >>Nuclear reactors, S.O. 31, 1952
    >>Nuclear weapons, petition, 8201
    >>Ports, S.O. 31, 9078
    >>Prince Edward Island, S.O. 31, 6554
    >>Privilege, Clancy (language, inappropriate/improper), 2763
    >>Procedure
    >>>Bills, Government, 1085, 9092
    >>>Divisions, recorded, 2789, 3449, 3665, 3743-4, 3747, 3749-50, 5629, 6157-8, 6161-2, 6164, 6166, 6168, 6171, 6506-7, 7919-20, 7922, 7992-3, 9119-20, 9122-5. 9127-9
    >>>Minister's/Prime Minister's remarks, 8737
    >>>Oral questions, 2567
    >>>Questions on the Order Paper, 10148
    >>Rail transportation/railways, 1087-8
    >>References see Goods and Services Tax--Harmonization
    >>Sexual orientation, petitions, 2484, 5297
    >>Shipbuilding, S.O. 31, 5879
    >>Statistics Canada, o.q., 1592
    >>Sugar industry, S.O. 31, 5677
    >>Tips/gratuities, S.O. 31, 8901
    >>Transportation, S.O. 31, 3417-8
    >>Unemployment insurance, S.O. 31, 32, 1044
    >>Unemployment, S.O. 31, 5285
    >>Veterans
    >>>o.q., 8736
    >>>S.O. 31, 3706, 6123-4
    >>>Statement by Minister (MacAulay), 5965
    >>Veterans benefits
    >>>Petition, 2103
    >>>qu., 1776, 6617

Ways and Means motions

    >>Concurrence
    >>>M. (P. Martin), 6937, agreed to, on recorded division, 6946-7; 6938, agreed to, on recorded division, 6947-8
    >>>M. (Peters), agreed to, on recorded division, 2817-8, 9453-4
    >>Notice, tabled, 372, 1378, 1803, 4183, 4992, 6376, 6495, 6843, 6912, 7149, 7390, 8512, 10029
    >>See also Budget 1996; Budget 1997; Budget Implementation Act, 1997 (Bill C-93); Customs Tariff; Excise Tax Act; Excise Tax Act, Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act, Income Tax Act and Debt Servicing and Reduction Account Act (amdt.)(Bill C-70); Income Tax Act; Income Tax Amendments Act, 1996 (Bill C-69); Income Tax Budget Amendments Act, 1996 (Bill C-92); Procedure--Orders of the Day

Wealth

    >>Concentration, redistribution, government role, 6290, 9140-1

Weapons/arms

    >>Export controls, international security, preserving, Security Impact Assessment requirement, M. (Blaikie), 6508-17, dropped from Order Paper, 6516
    >>International proliferation, etc., 3983-4, 3988
    >>>Foreign aid, relationship, Canadian policy, etc., 3984-5
    >>>United Nations Security Council members manufacturing 80%, 7362
    >>See also Africa--Great Lakes region; Defence equipment; International conflicts--Prevention; North American Aerospace Defence Command; Nuclear weapons

Weather services see Air navigation services--Automated weather observation system; Airports--Regional airports

Weatherill, Ted see Canada Labour Relations Board

Webbco West Industries Inc. see Entrepreneurs

Weight see Discrimination and racism--Appearance

Welfare

    >>Recipients
    >>>British Columbia, 1524
    >>>Increase, 330
    >>>>Federal government off-loading to provinces factor, 284, 1552
    >>>>Quebec 301, 412, 796, 8768
    >>>Indians on reserves, 43%, 9636
    >>>Ontario, payment cutbacks, impact, 436
    >>>Residency requirements
    >>>>British Columbia, $30 million federal fine, 6753, 7294
    >>>>Federal government opposing, Budget 1996 statement, 375
    >>>Single parent families, 4956
    >>>Youth
    >>>>Increase, unemployment insurance cuts factor, 348
    >>>>Quebec, 301
    >>System, federal government support, stabilizing, 1536
    >>See also Canada Health and Social Transfer--Quebec share; Child tax benefit--Child poverty; Employment insurance--Benefits, Reduction--Forcing; Government expenditures--Reduction; Unemployment--Newfoundland

Welland Canal see Canals

Wells, Derek (L--South Shore)

    >>Borrowing Authority Act 1996-97 (Bill C-10), 1031-3
    >>Budget 1996, M. (P. Martin), 464
    >>Canadian Food Inspection Agency, 6994-5
    >>>o.q., 6267
    >>Canadian heritage, S.O. 31, 1286
    >>Constitution Act, 1982, 3338
    >>Constitution, M. (Rock), 3336-8
    >>Criminal Code (amdt.--operation while impaired)(Bill C-201), 2916-8
    >>Deficit, 464
    >>Economic development/renewal, o.q., 7787
    >>Education, 3337-8
    >>Employment, 464
    >>Fisheries, 5328-9
    >>>o.q., 2946, 3871
    >>>S.O. 31, 7831
    >>Fisheries, Atlantic
    >>>o.q., 481, 4459
    >>>S.O. 31, 129, 520
    >>Goods and Services Tax, S.O. 31, 8946
    >>Government contracts, qu., 4237, 5485
    >>Heritage sites, buildings and monuments, S.O. 31
    >>Job creation, 464
    >>Special Olympics, S.O. 31, 10062-3
    >>Taxation, 464

Werbecky, Kim see Sexual assault/offences

West Bank see Foreign aid--Middle East; Middle East

West coast grain handlers strike see Grain transportation

West St. Paul, Man. see Veterans--Veterans Park

Westbank First Nation see Tobacco products--Taxes

Western Beaches tunnel and boardwalk see Infrastructure program--Projects

Western Canada see Canadian Coast Guard--Federal government; Liberal government (Trudeau); Oil and gas industry--Borden line; Rail transportation/railways--Rail lines, Abandonment

Western Canada Wilderness Committee see Job creation--Youth

Western Canadian Midget Women's Volleyball Championships see Volleyball

Western Economic Diversification Program

    >>Expenditures, increase, 416-7
    >>Funded projects
    >>>Failures, 416
    >>>Winnipeg, Man., disproportionate share, L. Axworthy influence, 416
    >>See also Lobbyists

Western Grain Marketing Panel see Canadian Wheat Board--Mandate--Modernizing; Grain marketing--Canadian Wheat Board monopoly--Procedures--Producers/farmers controlling

Western Grain Transition Payments Act see Income Tax Amendments Act, 1996 (Bill C-69)

Western Grain Transition Payments Program see Grain transportation--Freight rates

Western Grain Transportation Act see Grain transportation--Freight rates

Western Grain Transportation Adjustment Fund see Grain transportation--Freight rates

Western Hockey League see Hockey

Western Premiers' Conference see Social programs--Cutbacks

Westfort, Ont.

    >>Neighbourhood Outreach Development Project, federal-provincial project, S.O. 31, 2998

WestJet see Air transportation--Safety

Westray coal mine disaster

    >>May 9/92, commemoration, S.O. 31, 2557

Wetaskiwin Composite High School vocal jazz band ensemble see Music--JazScats

Wetston, Judge Howard see Elections--Right to vote

Whales see St. Lawrence River--Clean-up

What Does Quebec Want see Quebec--Financial Post article

Wheat see Grain; Grain marketing; Grain transportation

Whelan, Hon. Eugene

    >>Former Agriculture minister see Agriculture--Non-democratic socialist system

Whelan, Susan (L--Essex--Windsor)

    >>Budget, 1536, 1538
    >>Budget 1996, M. (P. Martin), 1536-8
    >>Business Development Bank of Canada, 1537
    >>Canada Assistance Plan, 1536
    >>Canada Health and Social Transfer, 1536
    >>Child care, 6566-7
    >>>M. on supply (Hayes), 6565-8, 6570
    >>Child poverty, 6565-6, 6568
    >>Child tax benefit, 6566, 6568
    >>Crime prevention, S.O. 31, 6002
    >>Deficit, 1537-8
    >>Discrimination and racism, S.O. 31, 9271
    >>Economy, 1536
    >>Education, post-secondary, 1536-7
    >>Employment insurance, 6566-8
    >>Export Development Corporation, 1537
    >>Finance Standing Committee, report, 3719
    >>Gasoline/automotive fuels, 4694-5
    >>Government, 1536
    >>Government borrowing, 1536
    >>Government expenditures, 1536
    >>Health care system, 1536
    >>>Petition, 4158
    >>>S.O. 31, 8945
    >>Hemp, petition, 4158
    >>Income tax
    >>>o.q., 9485
    >>>Petition, 5891-2, 7525
    >>Income Tax Budget Amendment Act (Bill C-36), 3719
    >>Information highway, 1537
    >>Job creation, 1536-7, 6566
    >>Manganese-based Fuel Additives Act (Bill C-29), 4694-5
    >>Multiculturalism, 1536, 1538
    >>>S.O. 31, 4016
    >>Old age security, 1536
    >>Registered education savings plan, 1537
    >>Registered Retirement Savings Plans, o.q., 5168
    >>Seniors Benefit, o.q., 5168
    >>Social programs, 1536-7
    >>Taxation, 1536
    >>Technology Partnership Canada, 1537
    >>Trade, 1537
    >>>o.q., 2437
    >>Unemployment, 1536
    >>Welfare, 1536