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Government funding

    >>Organizations, Planned Parenthood of Canada, Planned Parenthood International, Legal Education and Action Fund, National Action Committee on the Status of Women, Campaign Life Coalition, REAL (Realistic, Equal, Active, for Life) Women, qu., 7589

Government grants/loans

    >>Burnaby-Kingsway constituency, ro., 10148
    >>Deficit, relationship, 5579
    >>Edmonton Northwest constituent, $40,000 request, McClelland communication to Copps, o.q., 10067,
    >>Portneuf constituency, Liberal Party riding president announcing, confidential information, releasing, o.q., 9022
    >>Regional development, 9952-3
    >>See also Bombardier Inc.; China--Tzt Tzu dynasty; Hebco International--Sorel, Que.; Industry Department--Loans

Government investments

    >>Quebec share, decline, $7 billion shortfall over 15 years, o.q., 5734-5, 5804-6
    >>>See also Defence equipment; Government contracts; Nuclear energy--Research and development funding; Research and development--Funding

Government motions see Motions, government (special debates)

Government Operations Standing Committee

    >>Reports, presented
    >>>First (Senate main estimates, 1996-1997, study, Senate Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration Standing Committee Chair appearance request), 2524
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Guarnieri), 2525, agreed to
    >>>Second (Government contracts), 9513
    >>>Third (Public Service renewal), 10142
    >>>>Dissenting report (Bloc Quebecois), 10142
    >>Seized Property Management Act, designated committee, M. (Zed), agreed to, 5644
    >>See also Canada Post Corporation--Radwanski report; Government contracts, procurement process; Senate--Expenditures

Government policy see Cabinet

Government procurement see Government contracts--Procurement process

Government programs and services

    >>Adjustment assistance, 7132-3
    >>>See also Goods and Services Tax--Harmonization, Atlantic provinces
    >>British Columbia share, 1552
    >>Budget 1996 measures, $1.9 billion savings, 798, 1901, 2993
    >>Contracting out, 328, 1177-8
    >>>Architecture and engineering projects, viability, 1176
    >>>Guidelines, need, 1178, 1190-1, 1195, 1262-3, 1265
    >>>Private sector, competing against, 1176, 1180
    >>Cost, accountability, 6212-21
    >>Cost-shared programs, 1175
    >>>Federal government establishing through use of spending power, prior provincial consent, Throne Speech statement, 4, 831
    >>>>o.q., 36
    >>>Non-participatory provinces, financial compensation if instituting similar program, Throne Speech statement, 4
    >>Delivery
    >>>Affordable and efficient manner, 385-6, 793, 1175-6, 5510-2, 6014, 6581
    >>>Alternate methods, 1902, 2982
    >>>Improvements, cost savings, 389
    >>>Private sector, partnership agreements, 1175-6
    >>>Provincial, municipal levels, effectiveness, 389
    >>Duplication, overlap, waste, elimination, 374, 389, 395, 409, 793, 1175, 1185-6, 1538-9, 1752, 1902, 4382-3, 4725, 6201-2, 6500
    >>>Budget 1996 measures, lack, 382, 846
    >>>Cost savings, 437
    >>>>o.q., 424
    >>>Office des personnes handicapées du Quebec, federal government initiative, example, 1747-8, 1755
    >>>Quebec, $3 billion cost, Belanger-Campeau Commission report, 1531, 1535
    >>>Quebec sovereignty, relationship, 1539
    >>Elimination
    >>>Cost savings, 7296
    >>>Options, Reform Party alternative "fresh start" budget proposal, 7410
    >>Expenditures
    >>>1997-98, $106 billion, 1490, 1901
    >>>Increase, 1479, 7219
    >>>Priorities, o.q., 4864
    >>>Reallocation, 373
    >>>Reduction, 1175, 1526-7, 1539, 1901, 3023, 4366-8, 4400-2, 7246, 7249
    >>>>12% of Gross Domestic Product by 1998-99, Budget 1996 statement, 372, 408, 446, 799, 847, 1481, 1910, 2994
    >>>>Burden on disadvantaged, 7222-3
    >>>>Bureaucracy side not program delivery side, 436
    >>>>Failure to meet targets, using unemployment insurance account surplus to offset, 9941-2
    >>>>Government program review action, $16.9 billion, 2994
    >>>>Redefining program spending, 10085, 10092
    >>>Reform Party proposal, $94 billion, 9151
    >>>Salaries and payments, direct deposit, cost savings, 1175, 1183
    >>>>o.q., 1469
    >>>Transfer payments to provinces, reduction, portion, 849
    >>>>S.O. 31, 5239
    >>Management, decentralization, 1538
    >>National debt/deficit, impact, 793
    >>National standards, maintaining, 1439
    >>New initiatives
    >>>Cost, estimating, legislation, 244, 6212-5, 9045-51
    >>>>See also Program Cost Declaration Act (Bill C-214)
    >>>Reallocation not new money
    >>>>Budget 1996 statement, 378, 1537
    >>>>Liberal government (Chrétien) election promise, "red book", 5822
    >>No further cuts, Budget 1997 statement, 8290
    >>Privatization/commercialization, 386-7, 6244
    >>>Reform Party position, 1359-62
    >>Program review, 8963
    >>Provincial jurisdiction, federal government intrusion, Budget 1996 measures, 841-2
    >>Public Service, employee commercial/private projects, contracting out, government policy, o.q., 186
    >>Review, 1902, 5488-9, 7228
    >>>Bloc Quebecois position, 5490
    >>>Budget 1995 statement, 9952
    >>>Comprehensive, o.q., 6744
    >>>Deficit reduction, relationship, 388-9, 459, 5511-2
    >>>Government commitment, 5501-3
    >>>On-going, 793
    >>>Reform Party, position, 389-90
    >>Social programs, percentage, 1490
    >>Stability and sustainability, Budget 1996 measures, impact, 411
    >>Tax and spend programs, Liberal government specialty, 7770
    >>Taxpayers paying for, 9566
    >>User fees, 7271
    >>Waste and extravagance, elimination, 1478, 1529, 4753

Government revenues

    >>Collection, administration, consolidation, cost-savings, 1481
    >>Increase, 7228-9, 7248, 9521, 9942, 9949, 9951
    >>>$20 billion since 1994, 447
    >>>$24 billion since 1993, 9517
    >>>$700 million, Budget 1996 measures, 812
    >>>Economic activity increase, relationship, 9533, 9535-6, 9921
    >>>>o.q., 8310, 9020
    >>>o.q., 6448
    >>>Progressive Conservative (Mulroney) government, overprojection, 9941
    >>>Taxation increases, relationship, 7257, 8318-9, 9523
    >>>>o.q., 8310
    >>>See also Deficit--Reduction
    >>Individual taxpayer portion, 17% increase, 7223
    >>Stable source, moving from income tax revenue to other methods, 9526
    >>User fees, 6377, 9533
    >>See also Excise taxes--Evasion; Taxation--Tax havens, Revenue loss

Government subsidies

    >>Announcements, coming of election, vote buying, condemning, S.O. 31, 6003
    >>Elimination/reduction, Reform Party position, 7943

Government telephone directory see Public Works and Government Services Department

Government travel see Public Service--Travel

Governor General

    >>Expenditures, 1996-97, $9.8 million, 813
    >>Salary and expenses, tax-free status, eliminating, Bloc Québécois position, 7949
    >>>o.q., 9938
    >>See also Chrétien, Jean--References; Parliament--35th Parl., 2nd Sess.; Royal Assent--Communication

Governor General's Performing Arts Awards see Artists

Gowling, Strathy & Henderson see Financial institutions--Legislation Financial Institutions Laws Amendment Act (Bill C-82)

Grace, John see Information Commissioner

Gradual Civilization of the Indian Tribes in Canada Act of 1857 see Indians/First Nations

Gradual Enfranchisement Act of 1869 see Indians/First Nations

Graffiti

Graham, Bill (L--Rosedale)

    >>Africa, M. (L. Axworthy), 6393-6
    >>AIDS, petition, 10144
    >>Armenia, M. on supply (Daviault), 1856-8
    >>Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1856-7, 5639, 6395
    >>>o.q., 4309
    >>Budget 1996, M. (P. Martin), 1506-8, 1510
    >>Budget 1997, 9633
    >>Budget Implementation Act, 1997 (Bill C-93), 9633-4
    >>Business Development Bank of Canada, 1508
    >>Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement, 6781
    >>>o.q., 6369
    >>Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (Bill C-81), 8561
    >>Canada Foundation for Innovation, 9633-4
    >>Canada Health and Social Transfer, 1507
    >>Canada Pension Plan, 4703-4, 9633
    >>>o.q., 3319
    >>Canada-United States relations, S.O. 31, 9545-6
    >>Canadian Armed Forces, 6394
    >>>M. (B. Mills), 8981-3
    >>Canadian Human Rights Act (amdt.)(Bill C-33), 2122-6, 2129
    >>Charitable donations, 9634
    >>Child poverty, 9633
    >>Child tax benefit, 9633
    >>Children, petition, 2315
    >>Constitution Act, 1996 (amdt.--balanced budget and spending limit)(Bill C-213), 2331-3
    >>Crimes against humanity, 1852-3
    >>Cuba, 5211
    >>Deficit, 1507, 9633-4
    >>Developing countries, S.O. 31, 7653
    >>Discrimination and racism, 2123, 2129
    >>>S.O. 31, 2303
    >>Economic conditions, 1507
    >>Education, post-secondary, 1508, 9634
    >>Excise Tax Act, Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act, Income Tax Act and Debt Servicing and Reduction Account Act (amdt.)(Bill C-70), 7987-90
    >>Export Development Corporation, 1508
    >>Exports, 1508, 4085, 8346
    >>>o.q., 5602
    >>Foreign Affairs and International Trade Standing Committee, reports, 4085, 4899, 6012, 8561, 10035
    >>Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act (amdt.)(Bill C-54), 5210-1
    >>Genocide, 2123
    >>Goods and Services Tax, 7987-90
    >>>Petition, 9806
    >>Government borrowing, 1507
    >>Grain transportation, 8100-1
    >>Gun control/guns, 8807
    >>Haiti, 1856
    >>>M. (L. Axworthy), 92
    >>Highways and roads, petition, 9806
    >>HIV/AIDS, o.q., 9220
    >>Holocaust, 1856
    >>Hospitals, S.O. 31, 6954
    >>Housing, 1507-8
    >>Human rights, 1857-8
    >>Interest rates, 1507, 9633
    >>International criminal court, 1856-7
    >>Israel, S.O. 31, 308-9
    >>Job creation, 1507-8, 9633
    >>Justice system, 8821
    >>Metropolitan Toronto, Ont., S.O. 31, 8647
    >>Multiculturalism, o.q., 5962
    >>National debt, 1507
    >>Nuclear energy, 9634
    >>Nuclear reactors, petition, 9806
    >>Nuclear weapons, petitions, 9659, 9806
    >>Old age pensions, 9633
    >>Parole, M. on supply (Ramsay), 8807, 8821-3
    >>Procedure, committee reports, 10035
    >>Refugees, 6394
    >>Research and development, 9634
    >>Rosedale constituency, 9633
    >>Schools, S.O. 31, 7078
    >>Securities industry, 1510
    >>Senate, M., 3291-2
    >>Senior citizens, 9633
    >>Seniors Benefit, 1507
    >>Sexual orientation, 2122-6, 2129
    >>>Petition, 2315
    >>Social programs, 1506
    >>Technology, 1508
    >>Trade, 1508, 5210-1, 6781, 8346
    >>Transfer payments to provinces, 1507
    >>Transportation, M. on supply (Gouk), 8100-1
    >>United Nations, 6394
    >>United States, 5210
    >>Universities/colleges, 9633-4
    >>>S.O. 31, 1363-4

Graham, Phil see Olympics, 1996 Summer Games--Canadian team, Newfoundland

Grain

    >>1996 harvest, S.O. 31, 5236
    >>Crop failures, weather conditions, government assistance/compensation, contingency plans, 5094-5
    >>>o.q., 4867
    >>Grandin wheat illegally imported from United States, 9864
    >>Value added products, production, Canadian Wheat Board roadblocks, o.q., 3639

Grain exports see Grain marketing--Exports

Grain hopper cars see Grain transportation

Grain marketing

    >>Barley
    >>>Canadian Wheat Board monopoly, producers/farmers plebiscite/poll, 5280-1, 8238-9, 8245-6, 8252-3
    >>>>o.q., 5116, 5243-4, 5374
    >>>>S.O. 31, 7080, 8081, 8386
    >>>Canadian Wheat Board sales, decline, o.q., 4987
    >>>Dual marketing system, producers/farmers position, o.q., 4308, 4987
    >>>Hulless waxy barley, markets lacking, Canadian Wheat Board position, Alberta and Saskatchewan Wheat Pool selling in United States, farmers self-marketing, relationship, o.q., 7315
    >>>See also Grain marketing--Canadian Wheat Board monopoly
    >>Canadian Wheat Board monopoly (wheat and barley), 9874, 10151
    >>>Cash purchases of grain, allowing, 8248, 10150
    >>>Continuing, support, petition, 277, 1899
    >>>Court cases challenging Canadian Wheat Board authority, 8240
    >>>Crops, adding to monopoly, canola, corn, etc., 8254 , 10150
    >>>Dual marketing system, choice, allowing producers to sell outside Canadian Wheat Board, 4092-3, 8242, 8244-5, 8249-52, 9868-72, 9890, 10150, 10153-5
    >>>Enhancing, 5280
    >>>Errors, $180 million loss, judicial inquiry, requesting, o.q., 3873
    >>>Farmers/producers avoiding by growing other crops, etc., 9869-70
    >>>Farmers/producers, self-marketing, 1614-8, 1621-2, 6575
    >>>>Government harassing, arresting, imprisonment, 5814, 9428, 9861, 9863-4, 9871, 9898
    >>>>>o.q., 5110
    >>>>>S.O. 31, 6257
    >>>>Millers importing grain from United States, comparison, 9861, 9863
    >>>>o.q., 317, 4987
    >>>>S.O. 31, 1953, 3627, 4496-7, 5055, 7829
    >>>Historical background, 8251
    >>>M. on supply (Hermanson), 4092-102, 4107-38
    >>>M. (Thompson), 6337-44
    >>>Marketing costs, minimal, 8236, 8239
    >>>McMechan, Andy, charges, conviction, sentence, 6575, 7760
    >>>>S.O. 31, 5106
    >>>Operating costs, Wheat Board Kraft study/Carter report, differences, 1615-6, 4095, 4126, 4136
    >>>>o.q., 317
    >>>o.q., 3486, 3639
    >>>Plebiscite, Liberal government (Chrétien) election promise/Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Goodale promise, 4722, 5814, 9898
    >>>>o.q., 2361, 2894-5, 4121, 4346
    >>>>S.O. 31, 4548, 5055
    >>>Plebiscite results, $1 purchase/sell-back plan, Alberta government proposal
    >>>>o.q., 2710-1, 2762
    >>>>S.O. 31, 3001
    >>>Provinces outside prairies, application to, Ontario, Quebec, etc., 8251, 10151
    >>>Reforms, lack, 8238
    >>>Sales, $5 billion per year, 8236-8, 8248
    >>>S.O. 31, 3123, 3419
    >>>Survey results, releasing, o.q., 4346
    >>>War Measures Act, relationship, 8244-5, 8251
    >>>Western Grain Marketing Panel review, report, 4098-100, 4115-8, 4123-4, 4131-2, 4136, 9869-70, 10149-50, 10153
    >>>>o.q., 2711, 3007, 3486, 3639, 4987
    >>>See also Canadian Wheat Board Act (amdt.)(Bill C-72); Grain marketing--Exports--Feed grain
    >>Condo storage facilities, 8249
    >>Exports
    >>>Canadian Wheat Board monopoly
    >>>>Desrochers, Norman, truck seizure, S.O. 31, 1657
    >>>>Export permits, issuing, 8236
    >>>>Farmers/producers trucks, seizure by Canada Customs, Sawatzky decision, return of property, 3961
    >>>>>o.q., 4076-7, 7520
    >>>>Illegal sales, penalties, etc., 3961-2
    >>>>International reputation, 8236, 8239, 8248
    >>>Customs regulations, amending, 8064
    >>>Decline, 6287
    >>>>Reversal, government action plan, o.q., 139
    >>>Durum wheat
    >>>>Cap, 5843
    >>>>United States quotas, 8064
    >>>Exports to United States, capping, 1994 agreement, 1996 crop, 4493, 5208, 5303
    >>>Protests, Farmers for Justice, 4094
    >>>Wheat and corn, United States subsidies, impact, 1083
    >>>See also Grain marketing--Wheat
    >>Feed grain, Canadian Wheat Board role, etc., 8239, 8253
    >>Final payments, Canadian Wheat Board making before January, 8248
    >>Prices, 5921
    >>>Canadian Wheat Board buy back prices, calculation method, improving, o.q., 3007
    >>Procedures, reform, Western Grain Marketing Panel report, recommendations, o.q., 4308-9
    >>Producers/farmers controlling, Western Grain Marketing Panel report, government ignoring, S.O. 31, 4301
    >>Transferable producer certificates, 8248-9
    >>United States export enhancement program, impact, 9889
    >>Wheat
    >>>Exports to Chile, tariff elimination, 8157
    >>>Exports to United States, 1.5 million tonnes, limit, agreement, o.q., 9887
    >>>Initial price, increase, S.O. 31, 10114
    >>>Single desk marketing system, producers/farmers position, o.q., 4308

Grain transportation

    >>Barley, shipped to California via Thunder Bay, Ont., rather than Vancouver, B.C., Hoeppner refused information by Canadian Wheat Board, 9865
    >>Canadian Wheat Board role, 1932, 8913-4
    >>>See also Grain transportation--Barley
    >>Competition, providing, 9867, 9890
    >>Delivery to elevator system and port terminals, delays, 621-2, 8888-9, 10155-6
    >>>Costs to producers, lost revenues, responsibility, solutions, etc., 7796, 7923-5, 8063-9, 8099-101, 8250, 8541-2, 8888-9, 8893-7, 8913-4, 9475-6, 9862-3, 9867
    >>>>Interim price paid, increase, o.q., 9995
    >>>>M. to adjourn under S.O. 52 (Hermanson), emergency requirements not met, not accepted, 7927-8
    >>>>o.q., 7787-8, 7838, 7971, 8197-8, 9087-8, 9936-7
    >>>>Performance guarantee from railways, 9476, 10109-10
    >>>>>o.q., 9087
    >>>>S.O. 31, 7962, 8081-2
    >>>Winter of 1993-1994, comparison, 8067
    >>Feed industry, importance, 8539-40
    >>Freight rates
    >>>Capital formula, 1.5% increase, railways imposing
    >>>>o.q., 8910
    >>>>S.O. 31, 8828-9
    >>>Increases
    >>>>>Approval, 9475-6
    >>>>Keeping to minimum, 1932-3
    >>>Subsidies, Western Grain Transportation Act, Crow rate, elimination, compensation,1238-9, 1609, 1932, 8064, 8108, 8250-2, 9856, 9859-60, 9862-3, 9867, 9875, 9892-4, 10074-6
    >>>>Forage and alfalfa producers, 1238-9, 1492
    >>>>>Including, petition, 568
    >>>>Livestock producers, exclusion, 847
    >>>>Renter/landowner receiving, 1492
    >>>>Western Grain Transition Payments Program, 8069
    >>>>>Accelerated time frame, 411-2
    >>>>>Farm groups/organizations, consultations, qu., 2315-6
    >>>>>o.q., 6962
    >>>>Western Grain Transportation Adjustment Fund, 8070
    >>>>Western grain transportation system, review, 1151
    >>>>See also Dairy products--Milk, Subsidies
    >>>Vancouver and Prince Rupert, B.C., differences, 5921
    >>Grain hopper cars
    >>>13,000, disposal/sale, 412, 846, 1442-3, 1491-2, 1904, 1912, 1932-3, 2798-9, 2982
    >>>>o.q., 479, 967, 2312, 4025-6
    >>>>qu., 3045-6
    >>>>S.O. 31, 2245
    >>>1993 operating agreements between Grain Transportation Agency Administrator, Canadian National Railways and Canadian Pacific Ltd., M. for Papers (Easter), called, withdrawn, 5612-3
    >>>Availability, 621
    >>>>Peace River region, shortage, 5921
    >>>Car Allocation Policy Group, 8064, 8067
    >>Grain Transportation Commissioner, appointing, 10124
    >>>See also Canada Transportation Act (amdt.)(Bill C-437)
    >>Inefficiency, 8238
    >>Infrastructure, deterioration, S.O. 31, 7829-30
    >>Labour disputes, 8543-4, 8550, 8871, 8879, 8898-9, 9492-3
    >>>Grain handling disputes only, not third-party disputes, allowed to stop shipments, Canada Labour Code (Part I)(amdt.)(Bill C-66), provisions, 6292, 8066, 8241, 8253-4, 8534-5, 8537-8, 88798918, 8929-30
    >>>>Other commodities, including, 8535-6, 8538, 8878-80, 8914-5, 8917-9
    >>>Producers, impact, 8887-91, 8914, 9492
    >>Legislation
    >>>Canada Transportation Act (Bill C-12), impact, 1230
    >>>Farmer/producer proposed amendments, Liberal government (Chrétien) not accepting, S.O. 31, 9480
    >>Marine transport, pilotage fees, impact, 9861-2
    >>Prince Rupert, B.C. terminal, operations
    >>>Closure, 4839
    >>>>o.q., 3490
    >>>Effectiveness, not utilized, 8062
    >>Rail transportation improvements, impact, 8053, 8066-7, 8096
    >>>Short line operations, role, 8099-100
    >>>>o.q., 8511-2
    >>St. Lawrence Seaway, dependence on, 9865
    >>West coast ports, labour-management disputes, 8888, 8891, 8916
    >>>Final offer arbitration alternative, 8064-5
    >>>Grain handlers strike, 2490
    >>>>1994 strike, back ot work legislation, 8897-9, 9493
    >>>Industrial inquiry commission, 6021, 6416-7
    >>>Settlement mechanism reducing impact, 6413, 6426
    >>>>S.O. 31, 2245