John McCallum
John McCallum
John McCallum PC MPis a Canadian politician, economist and university professor. A Liberal Member of Parliamentsince the 2000 election, he currently represents Markham—Thornhill, and has previously represented Markham—Unionville and Markham. He is a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, and is currently the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship...
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It appears it's a process of taking money out of the pockets of poor people and putting money into the pockets of rich people.
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We're also talking about a lot of other commodities.
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I think it will be a reverse Robin Hood budget.
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You know I just want to find my parents, and give them a hug for allowing me to be able to be here, and not go through something like that, because that is just something terrible, what they are experiencing right now, and just the fact that I was able to go down and help is great.
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There are many pressing issues in this file and the prime minister has told me I have all the decision-making powers and freedoms of a regular minister and so to that end I will be as soon as possible visiting with my provincial counterparts and also with the stakeholders,
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We are absolutely determined to fight for what we believe is a much fairer tax cut and a much more competitive tax cut, which is the Liberal one as opposed to the GST cut, which all the experts agree is the worst possible measure.
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Unless we see something really good that I haven't heard about yet, I would find it extremely unlikely that we could vote for a budget that has a reverse Robin Hood proposal like the income tax hike.
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If the implication of what I say is that Western countries as a whole would have to reduce their share of the pie, then I'm sure that Canada would be willing to make its fair contribution.
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Beyond the 450,000 barrels of (crude) oil per day is the much more important point that this is the future of the global economy and it's fundamentally in our interests that we become a part of it,
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As the prime minister made very clear, we are very serious about the United States respecting the rules of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement),
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Coming from a government that's torn up agreements on child care, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that they'd tear up agreements with Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.
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I've been there and I've done that. We had ready-made proposals in procurement and service delivery which we already used. We really only had to find $5 billion, and he has to find $22 billion, fast. And they're going to tell him the only way you can do that is to lay off people.
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This is not unusual. The details of this are being worked out -- no decision has been made. All I can say is that anything he might receive in that regard is standard for a person in his situation.
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This is not unusual, ... The details of this are being worked out - no decision has been made.