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Budget 1996 (Mar. 6/96)

    >>Balanced approach, 1511
    >>Bloc Québécois position, 403, 413-5, 841, 1441
    >>Budget documents, tabled, 372, 1439
    >>Business community reaction, 449-50, 2990
    >>Date, announcing, o.q., 42
    >>Debate, delays, 802
    >>Economic statement, 1483
    >>Focus, 1474
    >>Forecasts, confusing, 6014
    >>Fraser Institute reaction, 806, 835, 2990
    >>Implementation, legislation (Bill C-31), 1900-1, 1903-4, 1906-7, 2982
    >>Income tax measures, implementation, 7149
    >>M. for approval (P. Martin), 371-83, 395-419, 432-64, 791-814, 828-53, 1433-57, 1471-97, 1506-39, 1551-79, agreed to, on recorded division, 1579-80
    >>>Amdt. (Loubier), 399, negatived, on recorded division, 1497-8
    >>>>Amdt. to amdt. (Grubel), 400, negatived, on recorded division, 853-4
    >>>Debate, adjournment, M. (Loubier), 383
    >>Macroeconomic/microeconomic view, 1440
    >>Manitoba provincial budget, comparison, 1554-5
    >>McClelland position, 807
    >>Measures, delayed implementation, 452
    >>Media reaction, reports, 413, 797, 811, 834-5, 1443, 1487, 1493-4, 2990
    >>New Democratic Party position, 413
    >>Nunziata voting against see Nunziata--References
    >>Ontario economic policies, comparison, 1441
    >>Pre-budget consultations, Reform Party proposals, lack, o.q., 314
    >>Priorities, goals, 1508, 1524, 1528, 1536
    >>Progressive Conservative Party position, 413
    >>Public support/opposition, 413, 445, 851, 1443, 1488, 1491, 2989
    >>>Etobicoke--Lakeshore constituency, 456-8
    >>>o.q., 425
    >>References
    >>>A lot of hot air, 401
    >>>Balanced, 1487
    >>>Cosmetic, 383
    >>>Failure, 834
    >>>Fair, realistic and compassionate, 445, 447-8, 1435, 1443
    >>>Illusion, delaying bad news, o.q., 425
    >>>Messages, 1447-8
    >>>Middle class, ignoring needs, S.O. 31, 522-3
    >>>Re-election budget, 2988
    >>>Shift from deficit fighting to election mode, 400
    >>>Staying the course, 372
    >>>Torture of a thousand small cuts, 419
    >>Reform Party position, 400, 403, 413, 803
    >>Reform Party taxpayers alternate budget proposals, comparison, 2991
    >>Themes, 414, 437, 1488, 1538
    >>Ways and Means motions, notice, tabled, 372
    >>See also Aboriginal peoples--Programs; Aerospace industry--Technological development; Biotechnology--Development; Budget--Balanced; Business Development Bank of Canada--$50 million equity increase; Canada--National challenge; Canada Health and Social Transfer; Canada Pension Plan--Sustainability; Canada Revenue Commission--Establishing; Canadian Broadcasting Corporations--Funding; Charitable donations; Child support payments; Child tax benefit; Corporations--Taxation; Dairy products--Milk, Subsidies; Defence equipment--Expenditures; Defence expenditures--Reducing; Disabled and handicapped persons--Disability tax credit--In-home care--Tax system; Economic development/renewal; Economy--Future--Growth; Education, post-secondary--Women; Employment--Youth; Energy industries--Canadian renewable energy and conservation expenses deduction--Renewable energy and energy conservation projects; Environmental technologies--Development; Export Development Corporation; Financial institutions--Large deposit taking institutions--Legislation; Foreign aid--International assistance; Goods and Services Tax--Abolition/replacement--Harmonization; Government--Role; Government borrowing--Requirements; Government departments, boards, agencies and commissions--1998-99 expenditures; Government expenditures--Controlling--Reduction; Government programs and services--Duplication--Expenditures--New initiatives; Government revenues; Health care system--Efficiency--Preserving; Income tax--Personal; Information highway--School Net Program--Small business access; Job creation; Labour sponsored venture capital corporations; Mining industry--Flow-through shares--New mines; National debt--Reduction; National Film Board--Funding; Natural resource industries--Flow-through shares--Resource allowance; Natural resources; Oil and gas industry--Oil sands recovery projects; Parks Canada Agency; Pensions--System; Postal service--Subsidy program; Registered education savings plans--Contributions; Registered retirement savings plans; Seniors Benefit; Small and medium business--Export and knowledge-based business; Social programs--Improvements--Protection--Universality; Taxation--No increase--Tax relief; Technology--Innovative; Technology Partnerships Canada; Telefilm Canada--Funding; Throne speech; Trade--Trade Team Canada; Unemployment--Rate; Welfare--Recipients; Women--Opportunities

Budget 1997 (Feb. 18/97)

    >>Alternative budget, Reform Party "fresh start" proposals, 7408-11, 8326-8
    >>>See also Budget--Balanced, 1999 target--Surplus; Canada Pension Plan--Reform; Government expenditures--$91 billion; Government programs and services--Elimination; Income tax--1.2 million low income earners; National debt--Reducing; Registered Retirement Savings Plans--Death; Taxation--Reduction, $15 billion relief; Transfer payments to provinces--Health and education
    >>Alternatives, Bloc Québécois proposals, 8338
    >>Benefits, lack, 8326
    >>Budget 1995, relationship, 9137
    >>Date, announcing, o.q., 7579
    >>Focus, S.O. 31, 7962, 8303
    >>Goals and objectives, 8289-90, 8298-9, 9555
    >>M. for approval (P. Martin), 8289-301, 8318-42, 8360-85, 8397-429, 9134-67, 9179-205, 9312-9, 9333-50, agreed to, on recorded division, 9411
    >>>Debate be now adjourned, M. (Loubier), agreed to, 8301
    >>>Amdt. (Loubier), 8326, negatived, on recorded division, 9232-3
    >>>>Amdt. to amdt. (Manning), 8328-9, negatived, on recorded division, 8428-9
    >>Legislation Budget Implementation Act, 1997 (Bill C-93)
    >>>Finance Standing Committee referral prior to second reading, 9555, 9566, 9634
    >>>See also Air transportation--Aviation fuel tax; Bank for International Settlements--Bridge loans; Budget Implementation Act, 1997 (Bill C-93); Canadian Foundation for Innovation--Establishing; Child poverty--Elimination, National child benefit; Employment insurance--Premiums, Small business; Tobacco products--Taxes
    >>Pre-budget consultations, 7258, 7406, 8289, 9563, 9628-30
    >>>Bloc Québécois proposals, 7267
    >>>Finance Standing Committee hearings, process, flaws, 7272-3
    >>>Finance Standing Committee recommendations, 7217-20
    >>>>Public response, 7407
    >>>Fredericton--York--Sunbury constituency forum, 7405
    >>>o.q., 6010
    >>>York North Town Hall meeting, S.O. 31, 8080
    >>>See also Finance Standing Committee--Reports, Fifth
    >>Public support, 9628-9
    >>>o.q., 8308
    >>References
    >>>Election oriented, 8299-301, 8326, 8335, 8337, 8365, 8369, 9139, 9147, 9149, 9630, 10045-6, 10079
    >>>Fudge-it budget, 8360-1
    >>>Hocus-pocus, slight of hand, S.O. 31, 8270
    >>>Hope, lack, 10085-7
    >>>Light at end of the tunnel, 9151-2, 9154-5
    >>>Neutral, lazy, 9568
    >>>Tax and spend, 8326
    >>Secrecy, breach, 8313-5
    >>S.O. 31, 8007
    >>Staying the course, 9633
    >>>S.O. 31, 8269
    >>Union leaders position, 9139-40
    >>Ways and Means motions, notice, tabled, 8289, 9331
    >>>Concurrence, M. (Peters), agreed to, on recorded division, 9454-5
    >>See also Agriculture; Canada Foundation for Innovation; Canada Health and Social Transfer--1997-1998 transfers--1998-2003 transfers; Canadian Tourism Commission--Funding; Charitable donations--Tax credit; Child poverty--Combatting--Eliminating, National child benefit; Child tax benefit; Children--Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program--Community Action Program for Children--Future--Government expenditures; Deficit passim; Disabled and handicapped persons passim; Economic development/renewal; Education, post-secondary--Investment priority--Tax assistance; Employment insurance--Premiums, Reduction--Premiums, Small business; Exports--Increase; Family; Farm Credit Corporation; Federal-provincial jurisdiction--Federal government intrusion; Foreign aid--International assistance; Gender equality--Government departments; Government expenditures; Government programs and services--No further cuts; Health care system passim; Income--Generated in Canada; Inflation--Rate, Controlling; Information highway--Internet, Rural areas; Infrastructure program--Continuation; Job creation; Literacy--Government support; National debt--Gross Domestic Product ratio; Pensions--Public system; Poverty--Government combatting; Quebec; Quebec distinct society status--Resolution (1st Sess., 35th Parl.); Registered education savings plans--Contributions--Unused portions; Rural Canada; Senior citizens; Small and medium business; Student loans--Repayment terms; Taxation--No new taxes--Reduction--Revenues; Tourism--Budget 1997 expenditure--$500 million--Job creation--Prince Edward Island; Trade--Trade Team Canada approach--Success; Transfer payments to provinces--Reduction, No further reductions; Unemployment--Level; Universities/colleges; Youth; Youth Internship Program--Continuation

Budget Implementation Act, 1996 (Bill C-31)--Minister of Finance (P. Martin)

    >>First reading, 1813-4
    >>Second reading, 1900-14, 1925-50, 1961-82, 1993-2000, 2018-26, agreed to, on recorded division, 2099-100
    >>>Time allocation under S.O. 78(3), notice, 1913
    >>>>M. (Manley), agreed to, on recorded division, 1924-5
    >>>Amdt. (Silye), 1937, negatived, on recorded division, 2099
    >>>>Amdt. to amdt. (N. Leblanc), 1982, negatived, on recorded division, 2098-9
    >>Finance Standing Committee
    >>>Referral, 2100
    >>>Report, 2815
    >>Report stage, concurrence, agreed to, on division, 2981
    >>Third reading, 2981-93
    >>>Agreed to, on recorded division, 3040-1, passed.
    >>Royal Assent, 4196, Chap. 18, S.C. 1996

Budget Implementation Act, 1997 (Bill C-93)--Minister of Finance (P. Martin)

    >>First reading, 9489
    >>Finance Standing Committee referral, forthwith, prior to second reading
    >>>Notice, 9489
    >>>M. (P. Martin), 9542, 9555-70, 9628-39, agreed to, on recorded division, 9726
    >>>Reported, without amdt., 9824
    >>Report stage concurrence and second reading, 9968, agreed to, on recorded division, 10025
    >>Third reading, 10043-60, 10074-94, agreed to, on recorded division, 10094-5, passed.
    >>Royal Assent, 10252. Chap. 26, S.C. 1997
    >>See also Budget 1997 (Feb. 18/97)--Legislation

Bulgaria see Foreign aid

Buonamici, Maj Vincent see Canadian Armed Forces

Burke, Harry

    >>Artist, veterans' portraits, honouring, S.O. 31, 8267

Burkhart, Karl see Canadian Executive Service Organization

Burlington constituency see National unity--Toonie for Canada

Burlington, Ont. see Citizenship--Youth; Ports--Commercialization, Hamilton Harbour; Volunteers--Telecare Burlington Distress Line

Burma see Myanmar (Burma)

"Burn your boats" see Fisheries--Smallwood

Burnaby, B.C.

    >>1996 Communities in Bloom prize and Simon Fraser University pipe band second world championship, S.O. 31, 4625-6

Burundi

    >>Peace process, Canadian role, o.q., 3321
    >>See also Africa--Great Lakes region

Bus transportation system

    >>Companies, Canadian ownership, percentage, 1449
    >>See also Rail passenger service--Fares

Business

    >>Competitiveness, encouraging, 7871, 10221-2, 10243
    >>Direct government loans and subsidies
    >>>Eliminating, 415, 418, 1490
    >>>>Reform Party position, 6019, 10092
    >>>Reducing from $3.8 billion to $1.5 billion by 1997-98, 3023, 7801
    >>>See also Government expenditures
    >>Merger tansactions, regulations, 10241-2
    >>New Brunswick, new businesses, expansions, etc., 6284-5
    >>"Partners in Your Success" seminar, S.O. 31, 2301-2
    >>Regulations and taxation, impact, 834, 10219, 10245-6
    >>See also Liberal government (Chrétien)--Big business; Small and medium business

Business Connections 96 see Economic development/renewal--Rural Canada

Business Development Bank of Canada

    >>$50 million equity increase, providing $350 million in loans to knowledge-based, exporting and growth business, Budget 1996 measure, 379, 406, 438, 447, 449, 811, 840, 848, 1438, 1472, 1508, 1537, 6016
    >>Asset base, expansion to $15 billion, 7246
    >>Debt ceiling, raising to $12 billion, 333
    >>Loans, 1995, benefits, S.O. 31, 178
    >>Quebec role, interference in provincial jurisdiction, 8958
    >>See also Economic development/renewal--Regional agencies, Co-operation; Small and medium business--Loans; Tourism--$500 million

Business Finance Program see Small and medium business--Loans

Business Improvement Associations see Small and medium business

Business innovation and technological transfer service see Education--Beauce constituency

Business input tax credit see Goods and Services Tax

Business of the House

Butler, Paul see Murder--Fichtenberg, Dennis

Butter see Dairy products

By-elections see Elections

Byrne, Gerry (L--Humber--St. Barbe--Baie Verte; elected in by-election March 25, 1996)

    >>Canada Games, S.O. 31, 5052
    >>Canada Marine Act (Bill C-44), 9699
    >>Constitution, 6981-2
    >>>M. (Rock), 3358-9, 3371
    >>>M. (Rock), 6981-2, 6992-4
    >>Education, 3371, 6981-2, 6993-4
    >>Fisheries, Atlantic, o.q., 1711, 4457
    >>Fisheries, S.O. 31, 3080-1
    >>Heritage Day, S.O. 31, 8190
    >>Information highway, S.O. 31, 6556
    >>Marshall, Hon. Jack, S.O. 31, 2706
    >>Medal of Bravery, S.O., 31, 7235
    >>Newfoundland, S.O. 31, 3708
    >>References, introduction in House, 1461
    >>Small and medium business, S.O. 31, 5676
    >>Violence, o.q., 7193
    >>Volunteers, S.O. 31, 6850-1