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Martin, Hon. Paul (L--LaSalle--Émard; Minister of Finance and Minister responsible for the Federal Office of Regional Development-Quebec; Minister of Finance as of January 25, 1996)

    >>Aboriginal Head-Start Program, 1710
    >>Aerospace industry, Montreal, Que., o.q., 16613
    >>Agricultural products, sale to non-sovereign foreign buyers, 10097
    >>Agricultural research, 3618-21
    >>Agriculture
    >>>Changes, government inaction, M. on supply (Marchand), 3617-22
    >>>Government initiatives, 10097
    >>Agriculture and Agri-Food Department, expenditures, 10096
    >>Air traffic control, commercialization, 10098
    >>Airline industry, taxation, o.q., 490
    >>Alberta, deficit reduction measures, o.q., 9473
    >>Atlantic Groundfish Strategy, 1711
    >>Bank of Canada, mandate, o.q., 9064
    >>Banks and banking
    >>>Chartered banks, o.q., 15295
    >>>International banking centres, o.q., 4989
    >>>"International casinos", o.q., 10667
    >>>Profits, o.q., 8754
    >>>Taxation, o.q., 8754, 9146, 10468
    >>Bloc Québécois, mandate, 12034-6
    >>Border crossings, United States, o.q., 9201
    >>Borrowing Authority Act, 1994-95 (Bill C-14), 1729, 1841
    >>Borrowing Authority Act, 1995-96 (Bill C-73), 10103
    >>>M., 10705
    >>Budget
    >>>Balanced, o.q., 10147, 14611, 17039, 17581-2
    >>>Finance Department economic forecasts, o.q., 1856
    >>>Pre-Budget consultations, 678-80, 1714
    >>>>M., 678-81
    >>>>o.q., 27-8, 231-2, 640, 717, 5894, 6136-8, 6144, 6259, 7033, 8878-80, 9901-2
    >>>Presentation date, Feb. 22/94, 1235
    >>>Progressive Conservative government (Mulroney), o.q., 1721
    >>Budget (1996), pre-budget consultations, o.q., 14611-2
    >>Budget, Feb. 22/94
    >>>Budget documents, tabled, 1708
    >>>Details, o.q., 1306
    >>>M. for approval, 1708-14, 2059-60
    >>>Ways and Means motions, notice, tabled, 1708
    >>Budget, Feb. 27/95, 10094, 10102
    >>>Bloc Québécois position, 12037
    >>>Budget documents, tabled, 10094
    >>>Date, o.q., 9776, 9901
    >>>Financial institutions/analysts, o.q., 9277, 9420
    >>>Financial update, fall, 1995, o.q., 14611-2
    >>>M. for approval, 10094-102
    >>>Road to fundamental reform, o.q., 10615
    >>>Success, o.q., 11489
    >>>Ways and Means motion
    >>>>Concurrence, M., 10548
    >>>>Notice, tabled, 10094, 10475
    >>Budget Implementation Act, 1994 (Bill C-17), 2364, 2775, 4618, 4621
    >>Budget Implementation Act, 1995 (Bill C-76), 10722, 11257, 13220-1
    >>Business, subsidies, 1713, 2059, 10097-8
    >>>o.q., 4659
    >>Canada Assistance Plan
    >>>Established Programs Financing, 1712
    >>>Funding, 10099
    >>>>o.q., 10188
    >>Canada Business Services Centres, 1709
    >>Canada Communications Group, divesting, 10098
    >>Canada Health Act
    >>>Enforcing, o.q., 12725
    >>>Five principles, 10099, 12035-6
    >>Canada Health and Social Transfer
    >>>Funding, 10100
    >>>>o.q., 13803-4, 14645, 15768, 17499
    >>>Health care, post-secondary education and Canada Assistance Plan funding, amalgamation, 10099
    >>>>o.q., 10189-90
    >>>Programs, national standards, 10099, 12034-5
    >>>>M. on supply (Bouchard), 12034-7
    >>>>o.q., 11060, 13807, 15769, 17708, 17711
    >>>Provinces, transfer of powers to, 12034-5
    >>>>o.q., 12418-9, 13803, 13806
    >>>Quebec sovereignty referendum (1995), o.q., 15768-9
    >>>Tax points, transfer to provinces, 12035
    >>Canada-Hungary, Canada-Argentina, Canada-Netherlands Income Tax Convention, Canada-Nigeria, Canada-Zimbabwe Income Tax Agreement Act (Bill S-2), 2678, 3312, 4570
    >>Canada Investment Fund, creating, 1710
    >>Canada Pension Plan
    >>>Actuarial soundness, o.q., 15218, 16783
    >>>Reform, o.q., 15218
    >>>Sustainability, 10100
    >>>>o.q., 10148
    >>Canada Savings Bonds, RRSP option, o.q., 14768
    >>Canada-United States Tax Convention Act, 1984 (amdt)(Bill S-9), 13812, 14705, 15507, 15538
    >>Canadian Armed Forces, bases, closures, 1712
    >>Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto Broadcast Centre, o.q., 1066
    >>Canadian National Railways, privatization, 10098
    >>Canadian Race Relations Foundation Act (Bill C-63) (3rd Sess., 34th Parl.), proclamation, 1710-1
    >>Canadian Space Agency, research and development, o.q., 15103
    >>Capital gains tax
    >>>Fairness, o.q., 9783
    >>>Lifetime $100,000 exemption, 1713
    >>>>o.q., 2128, 6138, 6899, 7182
    >>>Lifetime $500,000 exemption, 1713, 10098
    >>Carbon tax, government instituting, 2059
    >>>o.q., 790
    >>Centre of Excellence for Women's Health, 1710
    >>Child care, government commitment, o.q., 2540, 17704
    >>Child support payments, income for recipient, o.q., 3830, 3834, 13009
    >>Corporations
    >>>Income tax, 1712-3, 10101
    >>>>o.q., 1724, 4203, 7182, 9651-2, 12110 , 14648
    >>>Profits, o.q., 17392
    >>Court Challenges Program, restoring, 1710
    >>Crown corporations
    >>>Financial Administration Act, o.q., 1067
    >>>Privatization, 10098
    >>>Subsidies, 2059
    >>Customs Act and Customs Tariff (amdt.)(Bill C-102), 14410, 14726, 15990
    >>Customs Tariff (amdt.)(Bill C-5), 645, 2165
    >>Customs Tariff, duty deferral program, o.q., 16246
    >>Dairy industry, subsidies, o.q., 10151
    >>Defence equipment, helicopters, EH-101s, 1712
    >>Defence expenditures, reduction, 1712
    >>Defence industry, industrial reconversion program, o.q., 4828, 6516
    >>Defence policy, review, 1712
    >>Deficit
    >>>1993-94, 10095
    >>>>o.q., 4275
    >>>1994-1995, o.q., 16484-5
    >>>Controlling, 680
    >>>Eliminating, o.q., 9902, 9906, 10146-7, 10787-8, 10830, 10897-8, 14453, 14611, 15292, 16196, 16483
    >>>Forecasts, 10095
    >>>>o.q., 1239, 1855, 1857, 2668, 6899-901, 13723-4
    >>>GDP percentage, o.q., 2669, 3276, 4655, 5895, 6900, 7034-5, 8427-8, 9143, 9777-80, 10096, 16070, 17039-40
    >>>Progressive Conservative government (Mulroney) responsibility, 17388
    >>>Public opinion, 679
    >>>Reduction, 1708-9, 1712, 2059
    >>>>o.q., 23, 230, 387, 1180-1, 1234, 1721-4, 1799, 2042, 2175, 3996, 4275, 4696, 5341, 5893, 6331-2, 6560, 6773, 6775, 6900-2, 7096-7, 7181, 8173-4, 8347-8, 8936-7, 9057, 9144-58, 9726, 9776, 9900, 9906, 10787-8, 15292, 15295, 16070, 16192-3, 17386-8, 17499, 17581-2
    >>>Social security system expenditures, o.q., 9907, 17387
    >>>Taxation, o.q., 5341-2, 6560
    >>Dingwall, references, o.q., 643
    >>Dollar, exchange rate, decline, o.q., 2787, 15699-700
    >>Drugs and pharmaceuticals, industry, o.q., 166130
    >>Economic and Regional Development Agreement, Quebec, o.q., 12899
    >>Economic conditions
    >>>Deficit/national debt, o.q., 15767
    >>>Economic statement, o.q., 5727
    >>>Quebec separation threat, o.q., 15765, 15767
    >>Economic development
    >>>Montreal, Que., o.q., 16613-4
    >>>National debt/deficit, impact, 10094-5
    >>>Quebec independence question, impact, 10094
    >>Economic G-7 Summit (1995), Halifax, N.S.
    >>>Final communiqué, o.q.. 13328
    >>>International financial institutions/transactions, o.q., 10716
    >>Economic G-7 Summits (1994), employment/job creation, o.q., 2537
    >>Economic recovery
    >>>Consumer confidence, o.q., 10793
    >>>Interest rates, rise, impact, o.q., 5727
    >>>Montreal, Que., o.q., 718
    >>>Small business, o.q., 7510-1
    >>Economy
    >>>Decline, slowdown, o.q., 13808
    >>>Government role, 10096
    >>>Growth, 10094
    >>>>o.q., 3831, 4275, 4523, 4952, 5820, 9058, 10618, 10787, 13596-7, 14453, 15043
    >>Education, post-secondary, Established Programs Financing, 1712
    >>Employment, increasing
    >>>Budget, Feb. 22/94 role, 1708-9, 1713
    >>>>o.q., 1861
    >>>Quebec, o.q., 2788
    >>>Target, o.q., 6906
    >>Energy conservation, equipment, 1710
    >>Environment, economy, relationship, 1710
    >>Environmental industry, 1710
    >>Equalization payments
    >>>Formula, o.q., 2787
    >>>Quebec, o.q., 3275, 12411, 15341
    >>Estimates
    >>>1994-1995, supplementary (A), 4526
    >>>>M., 4527
    >>>Scrutiny, o.q., 235
    >>Excise Act, Excise Tax Act and Income Tax Act (amdt.)(Bill C-32), 4527, 4602, 5600, 5624
    >>Excise Act, Ways and Means motions, notice, tabled, 10094
    >>Excise Tax Act (amdt.)(Bill C-13), 1617, 3285, 3291
    >>Excise Tax Act and Excise Act (amdt.)(Bill C-90), 12544, 14737, 15472
    >>Excise Tax Act and Income Tax Act (amdt.)(Bill C-103), 14410
    >>Excise Tax Act, Ways and Means motions, notice, 1312, 1708, 9784, 10094, 11353
    >>Farm income, 3619
    >>>"Whole farm concept", 10097
    >>Farms, 3619
    >>>Debt settlement sales, o.q., 7691-2
    >>Federal Office of Regional Development-Quebec (FORD-Q)
    >>>Effectiveness, o.q., 16615-6
    >>>Expenditures, o.q., 6904
    >>>Financial assistance per riding, qu., 11573-4
    >>>Loans, o.q., 16667
    >>>Ministerial responsibility, o.q., 3763
    >>Federal-provincial fiscal arrangements, jurisdiction, o.q., 10467
    >>Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements and Federal Post-Secondary Education and Health Contributions Act (amdt.)(Bill C-3), 259, 2076-7
    >>Film and video industry, development tax incentives, 10101
    >>>o.q., 17500-1
    >>Financial institutions
    >>>Income tax, 1713
    >>>Information technology, 10101
    >>>Large deposit taking institutions, 10101
    >>Financial Institutions Laws Amendment Act (Bill C-100), 14187-8, 16763
    >>Fiscal policy
    >>>Budget, Feb. 22/94, statement, 1708-9, 1712
    >>>o.q., 9198
    >>Fisheries and Oceans Department, expenditures, 10096
    >>Foreign investments
    >>>Attracting, o.q., 12419
    >>>Canadian bond holdings, o.q., 3275
    >>>Deficit reduction, o.q., 3276
    >>Freight rates, subsidies, 10097
    >>Gasoline/automotive fuels
    >>>Ethanol, o.q., 2543, 10150
    >>>Excise tax, 10101
    >>>>o.q., 10150
    >>GATT, Article XI, 3622
    >>Goodale, references, 3617
    >>Government accommodation/buildings, Sault Ste. Marie, o.q., 9529-30
    >>Government borrowing
    >>>1996-97 requirements, 10095
    >>>Borrowing authority legislation, 1708
    >>Government credit rating
    >>>Downgrading, o.q., 10897-8
    >>>Foreign currency debt, o.q., 2621, 2666, 4823-4
    >>>Moody's Investors Service reviews, o.q., 9725-6, 9776-7, 9779
    >>>Triple-A level, o.q., 2621, 10829-30
    >>Government departments, boards, agencies and commissions
    >>>Administration, reducing, 3621-2
    >>>Operating budgets, reducing, 1712
    >>>Regional agencies, 10096
    >>>Review, 1712, 10098
    >>>Service delivery standards, 1709
    >>Government expenditures
    >>>6% cut-backs, o.q., 490
    >>>Budget, Feb. 22/94, 1709, 1712-4
    >>>>o.q., 1722-6, 1917, 5098-9
    >>>Budget, Feb. 27/95, 10095, 10101
    >>>>o.q., 9198
    >>>Capital expenditures, o.q., 9529-30
    >>>Contingency reserves, 4137, 10095
    >>>Controlling, o.q., 15806
    >>>Management, 10098
    >>>Reduction, 1709, 1712-4, 2059, 10095-6
    >>>>o.q., 1181, 1803, 1917, 2669, 3239, 4272, 5574, 5893, 6515, 6773-4, 6904, 7033-5, 8879, 9059, 9276, 9903-4, 10148, 16483, 17580
    >>>Reforms, structural, o.q., 4137
    >>>Waste and duplication, o.q., 4272
    >>Government programs and services
    >>>Duplication and overlap, o.q., 5941, 15806-7
    >>>Expenditures, 10095, 10098
    >>>>o.q., 10147
    >>>Federal-provincial duplication, 10102
    >>>>o.q., 15806-7
    >>>o.q., 1918-9
    >>>Privatization and commercialization, 10098
    >>Government revenues
    >>>Growth, 2059
    >>>Increasing, o.q., 945
    >>Governor General, income tax, o.q., 384
    >>Grain, farm-stored, cash advances, 3619
    >>Grain handling, system, 10097
    >>Grain transportation
    >>>Freight rates, 10097
    >>>>o.q., 10151
    >>>System, 10097
    >>GST
    >>>Abolition, o.q., 5575, 5724, 5729, 6219, 6775, 13050, 16029, 17443
    >>>Credits, o.q., 4135
    >>>Food items, o.q., 2126
    >>>Harmonization, o.q., 4860, 5724, 6039, 13724
    >>>Provincial and federal consumption taxes, merging, o.q., 5658-9
    >>>Reform, 1709
    >>>>o.q., 6217
    >>>Replacing, o.q., 717, 1503, 2126, 4056, 4201-2, 4276, 4695, 5575, 5723, 6038-9, 7183, 8344, 9651
    >>Health care
    >>>Funding, o.q., 9535-6, 13803-4, 14615
    >>>Prenatal nutrition programs, 1710
    >>>System, o.q., 9535-6
    >>Health insurance (Medicare)
    >>>Canada Health Act principles, 1711
    >>>Established Programs Financing, 1711
    >>Home Buyers Plan, RRSP funds use, 1710
    >>Human Resources Development Department, expenditures, 10096
    >>Human Resources Investment Fund, employment and job creation, 10098-9
    >>Human rights, funding, o.q., 11063-4
    >>Hyundai Auto Canada, Bromont, Que., plant, o.q., 2539-40, 2624, 2668-9, 2794
    >>Immigrants, financial guarantees, 10097
    >>Immigration, policy, 10097
    >>Income tax
    >>>Business and professional income, 10101
    >>>>o.q., 10617, 10663-4
    >>>Charitable donations tax credit, 1711
    >>>Child support payments, 1711
    >>>Entertainment expense deduction, o.q., 940
    >>>Exemptions, senior citizens, o.q., 637-8
    >>>Gambling, lotteries, winnings, o.q., 940
    >>>High income earners, o.q., 12110
    >>>Increase, budget measure, o.q., 1235, 1502
    >>>Life insurance premiums, 1713
    >>>Overdue accounts, 10101
    >>>Payroll tax deduction, o.q., 1182
    >>>Personal, 10101
    >>>Provincial taxes on capital and payroll, o.q., 17582
    >>>Senior citizens age credit, 1713
    >>>>o.q., 1799
    >>>Tax shelters/loopholes, 1713
    >>>>o.q., 25, 231, 384, 939-40, 1180-1, 2128, 6332, 9144, 9777, 9901
    >>>United States estate taxes paid, equivalent credit, o.q., 9201
    >>>Unpaid taxes, o.q., 8936, 9143
    >>Income Tax Act (amdt.)(Bill C-9), 946, 1137, 3194
    >>Income Tax Act and Income Tax Application Rules (amdt.)(Bill C-59), 8210
    >>Income Tax Act and Income Tax Application Rules (amdt.)(Bill C-70), 13907
    >>Income Tax Act, Income Tax Application Rules, Canada Pension Plan, Canada Business Corporations Act, Excise Tax Act, Unemployment Insurance Act (amdt.)(Bill C-27), 3916, 4411, 4416
    >>Income Tax Act, Ways and Means motion, notice, 1708
    >>Income Tax Conventions Implementation Act, 1995 (Bill C-105), 15584, 15611
    >>Industrial park museum, theme park, o.q., 3394-5
    >>Industry Department, expenditures, 10096
    >>Inflation
    >>>Dollar, exchange rate, o.q., 11345
    >>>Government policy, o.q., 2622, 2667
    >>>Reduction, 1708
    >>>Targets, o.q., 2788
    >>Information highway
    >>>Financial markets, o.q., 10389
    >>>Government paper, 1710
    >>Infrastructure program
    >>>Implementing, 1709
    >>>Job creation component, o.q., 3395, 16613, 16740
    >>>Provinces, o.q., 2738
    >>>Quebec, o.q., 5898
    >>>Women, o.q., 1993-4
    >>Inheritance/estate tax, re-imposing, o.q., 9731
    >>Interest rates
    >>>Bank of Canada rate, o.q., 8122, 9900
    >>>Bloc Québécois policies, o.q., 4696, 5574, 9057-8
    >>>Decline, o.q., 13597
    >>>Increase, o.q., 2175, 2666, 2668, 2739, 2788-9, 4137, 4696, 5574, 9198, 16320-1
    >>>Policy, o.q., 9064
    >>>United States rate, o.q., 2042, 9058
    >>International development assistance, funding, 1712-3, 10096
    >>International financial institutions
    >>>Capital flow, o.q., 10667
    >>>Electronic transfer, o.q. 10389
    >>International Maritime Organization, housing allowances paid, o.q., 491
    >>Job creation
    >>>400,000 in 1994, 10094
    >>>>o.q., 9194-5
    >>>Budget, Feb. 27/95 measures, o.q., 10149, 13721-2
    >>>Deficit, relationship, o.q., 12492
    >>>Government initiatives, o.q., 1721, 2537-8, 13808, 15043
    >>>Interest rates increase, relationship, o.q., 16320-1
    >>>Private sector, o.q., 2540, 13808
    >>>Quebec, o.q., 13596, 16613
    >>>Rate, o.q., 2667, 13596-7
    >>>Regional development projects, o.q., 2539, 2794
    >>>Social security system reform, o.q., 9195
    >>>Statistics, o.q., 2176, 3159, 6773, 9058
    >>>Tax credit, o.q., 2537
    >>>Taxation, o.q., 2125, 3831
    >>>Unemployment insurance premiums reduction, o.q., 1798, 7684
    >>Job creation, regional development projects, o.q., 16616
    >>Justice system, public safety, 10097
    >>Labour, provincial jurisdiction, o.q,, 13807
    >>Law Reform Commission of Canada, restoring, 1710
    >>Liberal Party, election promises, o.q., 642
    >>Livestock Feed Bureau, disbanding, 10097
    >>Livestock, feed-freight assistance subsidies, 10097
    >>Magdalen Islands, ferry service, o.q., 2543
    >>Megaprojects, funding, 10098
    >>Members of Parliament, pensions, o.q., 4860
    >>Mentally disabled persons, 1711
    >>MIL Davie Inc., Lauzon, Que., shipyard, o.q., 3763
    >>Military colleges, Collège militaire royal, Saint-Jean, Que., o.q., 2737, 6561
    >>Milk
    >>>Bovine somatotropin, o.q., 11530
    >>>Industrial milk producers, subsidies, 10097
    >>Mining industry
    >>>Reclamation funds, 1710
    >>>Resource allowances, 10101
    >>Monetary policy
    >>>Bank of Canada policy, o.q., 9901, 11187
    >>>Progressive Conservative government (Mulroney) policy, o.q., 2737, 12286, 12899-900
    >>Municipalities, grants in lieu of taxes, statement by Minister, 4870
    >>NAFTA, opportunities, 3618
    >>National debt
    >>>Foreign holdings, o.q., 14768, 15295
    >>>GDP percentage, 10095
    >>>>o.q., 490, 10148
    >>>Increase, 10095
    >>>>o.q., 5817, 10467
    >>>Interest payments, o.q., 9058, 9907
    >>>Level, o.q., 16483
    >>>Other countries, o.q., 7734
    >>>Reduction, o.q., 15292, 16483
    >>National Defence Department, budget, 10096
    >>National Forum on Health, 1711
    >>>Health care expenditures, o.q., 6982
    >>National Literacy Program, 1709
    >>National Research Council, funding, 1710
    >>Natural Resources Department, expenditures, 10096
    >>Old age pensions
    >>>Benefits, o.q., 638, 10384, 17385
    >>>Canadians living abroad, 10100
    >>>High-income recipients, 2059, 10100
    >>>>o.q., 10189
    >>>Reduction, o.q., 15769
    >>>Review, o.q., 14723-4
    >>Pensions
    >>>Aging society, impact, 1711
    >>>Public system, affordability, 10100
    >>>Taxation, o.q., 6136-8
    >>Petro Canada, privatization, 10098
    >>>o.q., 1070, 14769
    >>Petroleum industry, resource allowances, 10101
    >>Poverty, Montreal, Que., o.q., 16613
    >>Private family trusts, 1713
    >>>Foreign holdings, 10101
    >>>Income splitting, 10101
    >>>Income tax exemption, 10101
    >>>>o.q., 21, 384, 643, 1721, 1724, 1799, 4654-5, 6557, 6899, 9656, 9731
    >>Procedure
    >>>Documents, 1804
    >>>Language, inappropriate/improper, 2737, 4702, 10904
    >>>Minister's remarks, 16743
    >>>Orders of the Day, 1312, 9784, 10094, 10475, 11353
    >>Public Accounts, accounting practices, o.q, 235
    >>Public Service
    >>>Downsizing, 10097
    >>>>o.q., 16736-7
    >>>Salaries, 1712
    >>Public Utilities Income Tax Transfer Act, eliminating, 10098
    >>>o.q., 10193, 10793
    >>Quebec
    >>>Budget, provincial, May 9/95, 12037
    >>>Credit rating, o.q., 9058
    >>>Separation/sovereignty, o.q., 10148, 10832, 14814, 14921-4 14925-7, 15292, 15700-1, 15766
    >>References, 3089, 3113, 4094, 4645
    >>>See also Budget Pre-Budget consultations; Budget (1996)--Pre-budget consultations; Canada Steamship Lines; Conflict of interest; Deficit--Forecasts, 1996-97--Reduction; Economy--Conference--Growth; Economic policy--Economic and fiscal update; Federal Office of Regional Development for Quebec--Ministerial responsibility; Federalism--"Flexible federalism"; Finance Department; Government expenditures--Reduction, Interest rate increase; Housing--Social, Programs; Infrastructure program--Quebec; Job creation--Tax credit; Military colleges--Collège militaire royal, Saint-Jean, Que.--Bloc Québécois; National debt--Quebec share; Ontario--Provincial election (1995); Quebec--Separation/sovereignty, Economic and political association--Separation/sovereignty, National debt; Sustainable development--Tax barriers; Taxation--Increase; Tobacco/cigarette smuggling--Export tax
    >>Regional development
    >>>Jurisdiction, o.q., 9728
    >>>Loans, o.q., 16667
    >>>Montreal, o.q., 10661
    >>>Programs, o.q., 5214
    >>>Quebec, o.q., 13047
    >>Research and development, 1710
    >>>Expenditures, o.q., 15103-4
    >>>Government commitment, o.q., 13479
    >>>KAON particle accelerator project, 1710
    >>>Tax incentives, 10101
    >>RRAP, reintroducing, 1710
    >>RRSPs
    >>>Contributions, 10101
    >>>>o.q., 25, 230, 642-3, 1306
    >>>Foreign investment option, o.q., 15295
    >>>Investments, o.q., 5817, 9473
    >>>Taxing, o.q., 5941, 6136-8, 6144, 6216, 6258-9, 6331-2, 6515, 8750, 8936-7, 9143
    >>Rural Canada
    >>>Budget, February, 1995, o.q., 9656, 10151
    >>>Preservation, 3619-20
    >>Sales taxes
    >>>Federal-provincial co-operation, harmonization, o.q., 4276, 4522
    >>>National, 12%, government proposal, o.q., 6774-5
    >>Science and technology, 1710
    >>>Activities, fostering, 10098
    >>Senior citizens, sustainable support system, 10100
    >>Small business
    >>>Assistance, 10098
    >>>Budget, Feb. 22/94, measures, 1708-10
    >>>Business networks strategy, 1709
    >>>Capital, access, 1709, 10098
    >>>Dialogue with government, 1710
    >>>Exports, 1709
    >>>Regulations, paper-burden, 1709
    >>>Survival, o.q., 1241
    >>Social security system
    >>>Canada Health and Social Transfer cutbacks, o.q., 13804
    >>>Cut-backs, o.q., 6775
    >>>Expenditures, o.q., 7182, 9907, 10149
    >>>Funding, o.q., 9529
    >>>Maintaining, o.q., 10149
    >>>Moratorium, o.q., 3275, 3387, 3996
    >>>National goals and principles, 10099
    >>>>o.q., 10188-9
    >>>National standards, o.q., 9529
    >>>Reform, 1708-12
    >>>>o.q., 6514, 6780, 6901, 8346-7, 9905
    >>>Reform Party proposals, o.q., 10147
    >>>Transfer payments to provinces, o.q., 12411, 15341, 15343, 17708-9
    >>Space program
    >>>International space station program, 1710
    >>>Long term plan, 1710
    >>Special interest groups, government funding, 1713, 10098
    >>Spending Control Act, o.q., 1724
    >>Tax reform
    >>>Government commitment, 10101
    >>>>o.q., 21, 4201
    >>>Initiatives, tax base, broadening, o.q., 643
    >>Tax treaties
    >>>Double taxation, o.q., 10793
    >>>Tax havens, o.q., 9901
    >>Taxation
    >>>Budget, Feb. 22/94, not raising, 1709
    >>>Budget, Feb. 27/95, o.q., 9198
    >>>Burden, o.q., 7182
    >>>Compliance, increasing enforcement, 1713
    >>>Fairness/unfairness, o.q., 718, 945, 8936, 9472
    >>>Increase, 2059
    >>>>o.q., 716-7, 939-40, 6982-3, 8751, 8878-9, 8936, 9000
    >>>Loopholes, o.q., 7181
    >>>Reducing, o.q., 17387-8, 17500
    >>>Tax base, broadening, o.q., 1181
    >>>Underground economy, o.q., 8936
    >>>United States, o.q., 9276, 10793
    >>Tobacco/cigarette smuggling
    >>>Export tax, o.q., 892
    >>>Government strategy, Feb. 8/94 announcement, o.q., 1064, 1234-5
    >>>Reform Party policy, o.q., 891
    >>Tobacco/cigarettes, taxes, o.q., 26, 891
    >>Trade
    >>>Free trade, o.q., 16246
    >>>Promotion, 3618
    >>>United States, 3621
    >>Transfer payments to provinces
    >>>$37 billion cash and tax points, 10100
    >>>Block funding, o.q., 9905, 11526
    >>>Budget, Feb. 27/95 measures, 12037
    >>>>o.q., 10146-7, 10187, 10190-1, 10898
    >>>Cut-backs, 10100
    >>>>o.q., 9529, 9650-1, 12366, 17581
    >>>Freezing, o.q., 1726, 6901, 7182
    >>>Quebec, o.q., 10187, 12366-7, 15343, 16027-8
    >>>Reform, 1708, 10099
    >>>>o.q., 1726, 3232-3
    >>>Use, 10099
    >>Transport Department, budget, 10096
    >>Transportation, surface freight transportation system, 1710
    >>Unemployment
    >>>Countermeasures, o.q., 2667
    >>>Rate, o.q., 3159, 7181, 14453
    >>>Reducing, o.q., 13053
    >>>Youth, o.q., 13723
    >>Unemployment insurance
    >>>Benefit period, 1711
    >>>Benefit rate, 1709, 1711
    >>>>o.q., 1723, 1993
    >>>Benefits, o.q., 1800, 2787-8, 5945, 9468
    >>>Dependency, 10099
    >>>Eligibility, weeks required, 1711
    >>>Expenditures, 10099
    >>>>o.q., 14814
    >>>New Brunswick, o.q., 2737
    >>>Premiums, 1709-11
    >>>>o.q., 1798, 2045, 2537, 3159, 5820, 7684-5, 8431-2, 10467, 12413, 17385, 17440
    >>>Quebec sovereignty referendum (1995), o.q., 15769
    >>>Reform, 10099
    >>>>o.q., 2736-7, 3236
    >>>Voluntary quits, fired for misconduct, 1711
    >>Unemployment insurance account
    >>>Consolidation with government financial statements, o.q., 17384-5
    >>>Deficit, o.q., 7684-5, 9468
    >>>Surplus, 10099
    >>>>o.q., 17384-5
    >>University research, funding agencies, 1710
    >>Wages and salaries, stagnation, o.q., 16070
    >>Welfare, minimum residency requirements, 10099, 12035-6
    >>Wheat, exports to U.S., 3617
    >>Women
    >>>Advocacy groups, o.q., 9329
    >>>Status, o.q., 15706
    >>World Trade Organization, membership, o.q., 14922
    >>Youth Internship Program, 1709
    >>Youth Service Corps, 1709