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Defence expenditures

>>Capital expenditures, reduction, $15 billion over five years, o.q., 8601
>>Controlling, 365, 1153, 7190
>>>o.q., 1427-8
>>Foreign affairs and trade programs expenditure, comparison, 2331
>>Increase, $740 million to $1.5 billion, 1984-1993, 4044
>>Infrastructure, Quebec share, 2078
>>International; comparison, 16626
>>Other countries, 12654-5
>>Peace tax, conscientious objectors, paying, petition, 17637
>>Per capita, 485-6
>>Quebec share, 482, 1112, 1511, 1525-7, 1747, 1759, 1925-6, 2158, 3022-4, 3978, 7670-1, 10133, 10532, 10879, 10906-7, 11418, 16583, 16589-92, 16629, 16635, 17719
>>>o.q., 1856, 7559-60, 10073, 11759-60, 15101-3
>>>Quebec separation/sovereignty, relationship, 16592
>>>S.O. 31, 10071
>>>See also Defence expenditures--Infrastructure
>>Reduction, 539, 616, 618, 1465, 1471, 1477-8, 1494-5, 1815, 1902, 1911, 1946-7, 2276, 5031, 8320, 8496, 9665, 16581, 16589, 16624, 17684, 17699-700, 17713-4
>>>$1.9 million over three years, Budget, Feb. 22/94, measure, 1712, 1738, 1742-5, 1842
>>>$7 billion over five years, 1774
>>>$14 billion, 1989-97, Progressive Conservative governments (Mulroney, Campbell) policies, 1492-3, 1763
>>>Bloc Québécois position, 1481, 1759, 10237-8, 10879, 10905, 11579, 11826, 17719, 17731
>>>>o.q., 2353, 8294
>>>Budget, Feb. 27/95 measures, 11301, 16582, 16584
>>>Factors, 16625-6
>>>Frigate construction program, cost overruns, impact, o.q., 11810-1
>>>International trend, peace dividend factor, 16625
>>>Job losses, Quebec, 16628
>>>o.q., 7983, 13004
>>>Petition, 3164
>>>Reform Party position, 1763, 3968, 10885
>>>United Kingdom, comparison, 1764
>>>See also Deficit--Reduction
>>Review, S.O. 31, 7502
>>See also Conscientious objection act; Defence equipment--Expenditures; International development assistance--Funding

Defence industry

>>Arms production, exports, other countries, comparison, 3968-9
>>Central Canada, concentration, 3944
>>Defence policy white paper, relationship, 16626
>>Employment role, 16626
>>Exports see Defence equipment
>>Foreign ownership, 3969-70
>>High technology, leadership role, 3945
>>Industrial reconversion program, 247, 604-5, 836, 1289, 1510-1, 1523-4, 1526, 1931, 1949, 2607-8, 3028, 3039, 3051, 3062, 3072, 3906, 3919-20, 3933-5, 3945, 3966-7, 4789-90, 10532, 10944-5, 16590, 16600, 16621-2, 16625, 16627-8, 16630-3
>>>Aerospace industry, 16623-4, 16633-4
>>>Amortek, military fire trucks, conversion to environmental garbage trucks, 3919-20
>>>CAE Electronics Limited, 3972-3, 16634
>>>>o.q., 11061-2
>>>Canadian Defence Preparedness Association, views, 3942, 3944
>>>Defence Industry Productivity Program, including, 2607, 3689-90, 3918-21, 3924, 3929-31, 3959-60, 3972, 3974-6, 16631-2, 16634-5
>>>>o.q., 3569-70, 4054, 4343-4, 4470, 4581-2, 6084, 15185
>>>>r.o., 6092
>>>Delay, 3978
>>>Diversification, 16627-8, 16638
>>>EDO Canada Ltd., example, 3971
>>>Expro plant, Montreal, Que, example, 1511, 1525, 2607, 3936, 6120, 6517
>>>Fund, establishing, Bloc Québécois position, 3023, 3920-1, 3924, 3933, 3937, 3945, 3961, 3975-6
>>>>Reform Party, opposing, 3943, 3968-9
>>>Government strategy, 3922-4, 3933-4, 3939, 3942, 3946, 3959-60, 3965-8, 3970-3
>>>>o.q., 4054, 4470-1, 6084, 11061, 15185
>>>Liberal Party election promise, "red book", 16581, 16632-5
>>>Liberal Party, official opposition, position, 1523-4, 3918, 3924, 3929-30, 3936-7, 3964-5, 3973-5
>>>M. on supply (Ménard), 3916-46, 3959-78
>>>Magna International, example, 3932
>>>Manley, Industry Minister, position, 16597
>>>>o.q., 3995, 4343
>>>National Defence Department/Industry Department, roles, 16581
>>>Oerlikon Aerospace Inc., 3039, 3062
>>>>Environmental technologies, government support, 3961
>>>>>S.O. 31, 2967
>>>>o.q., 2929-30
>>>Private sector initiative, need, 3920, 3922-3, 3925, 3932-3, 3942-3, 3945-6
>>>Quebec, 3917-8, 3925, 3930-1, 3938-9, 3946, 3959-60
>>>>o.q., 4827-8, 5725, 6442-3, 6516-8, 14021, 14315-6
>>>>S.O. 31, 6327
>>>Quebec sovereignty referendum (1995), relationship, 15185
>>>Securiplex Technologies, example, 3972
>>>Unisys GSG, success, 3924
>>>United States comparing, 2608, 3938, 3945-6, 3966-7, 16624, 16631
>>>See also Defence equipment--Canadian content requirements; Pratt & Whitney Canada Inc.
>>Job losses, 3921
>>>Cold war ending, relationship, 3917, 3934-5, 3938, 3966, 3974, 16631-2
>>>Other countries, comparison, 3917, 3929, 3935, 3938, 3940, 3946, 3966-7
>>>Quebec, 3916-7, 3929, 3931, 3935, 3938, 3962, 3974, 3976, 16631
>>Montreal, Que., importance, 3917-8
>>>See also Defence industry--Industrial reconversion program--Expro
>>National Defence Department, relationship, 16626-8, 16637-8
>>Promoting, peacetime role, 3927
>>Research and development, role, 16628
>>Small and medium business, role, 3940-1, 3946
>>Specialization, niche markets, etc., 16626-7
>>United States industry, relationship, 16628
>>See also Defence equipment

Defence Industry Productivity Program

>>Expenditures, 6152-3
>>>Reduction, 16632, 16635
>>Investment/return, 3925, 3960-1
>>Mandate, role, 3929, 3942 , 16631-2, 16635
>>Redesigning, loans instead of grants, o.q., 3995
>>Research and development expenditures, Quebec, o.q., 15346
>>Review, o.q., 14021
>>See also Aerospace industry--Bombardier Inc.; Defence industry--Industrial reconversion program

Defence policy

>>Canada-Europe alliance, importance, declining, 2269
>>Liberal government (Trudeau), 1481
>>Multi-level approach, need, 421
>>National Defence and Veterans Affairs Standing Committee referral, 267
>>NATO/NORAD, commitment, 1468-9, 1472, 1480, 1520-1, 1532-4
>>Naval force, importance, 223, 1493-4
>>Review, 311, 330, 339-40, 420-1, 433-7, 1463, 1472-5, 1479-83, 1485, 1487, 1492, 1495-6, 1508-9, 1516-9, 1526, 1530, 1533-4, 1814, 1825, 1886, 2097, 2115, 3922, 3926, 3937, 3942, 5984
>>>1969-70, Liberal government (Trudeau), 2276
>>>1984, Progressive Conservative government (Mulroney), 2276-7
>>>Annual, 3926
>>>Budget, Feb. 22/94, statement, 1712
>>>Canada 21 Council, recommendations, SMART ships, construction, humanitarian aid/peacekeeping, contribution to, o.q., 2485
>>>Canada's Defence Policy Review Special Joint Committee
>>>>Establishing, 1471, 1478-9, 1482, 1486-8, 1490-1, 1496, 1510, 1512, 1515-6, 1521-3, 1531
>>>>>M. (Collenette), 1462-96, 1508-34, agreed to, on recorded division, 1728-9
>>>>Recommendations, 10864-5, 10909, 10919
>>>Debate, utility, 1482-3, 1509-10, 10865-6, 10909
>>>Foreign policy review, overlap, 1464, 1480, 2298, 2305
>>>Government intentions, unknown, 2276
>>>Guidance document, special joint review committee, assisting, 1464-5, 1467-8
>>>Land mines, use, including, S.O. 31, 1794-5
>>>Liberal Party, red book, election promises, 1486-7, 1508, 1510
>>>o.q., 7560
>>>Throne Speech proposal, 11, 38, 272, 282, 285-6
>>>>o.q., 795
>>>See also Canadian Armed Forces--Sexual harassment policy; Defence equipment--Helicopters, Purchase; Foreign affairs policy--Review
>>Rompkey position, S.O. 31, 7553
>>Western hemisphere, Canada's role, 2269
>>White Paper, 10864-5, 16582, 16626
>>>Canada's Defence Policy Special Joint Committee role, 16596, 16605
>>>o.q., 8597-8
>>>Tabling, timing, o.q., 8546
>>>See also Canadian Armed Forces--Personnel--Reserve units; Defence equipment; Defence industry--Defence policy White Paper

Defence research

>>Ballistic missile, NATO/NORAD co-operation, qu., 13815
>>See also Defence industry

Defence Research Establishmen Pacific

>>Victoria, B.C., closure, March 1995, 3971

Deficit

>>1993-1994, $45.7 billion, 1775, 1780, 1783, 1845, 2055, 2103
>>>Deliberate inflation, 1772, 1812
>>>o.q., 2486-7, 4275
>>1994-1995, $38.7 billion, o.q., 16484-5
>>>$400 million below forecast, 17688
>>Budget addressing, Throne Speech proposal, 10, 180, 182
>>Budget, Feb. 22/94 measures, impact, 1767, 1846, 2199
>>Budget, Feb. 27/95 measures, 10103, 10121, 10342, 10937, 11281, 11398
>>>1.7% of GDP, 11317
>>>Downloading burden to provinces, 10103-4, 10115, 11277, 11437, 11441, 11593, 13295
>>>See also Deficit--Reduction
>>Burden, shifting to provinces, 1040, 1774
>>>See also Deficit--Budget, Feb. 27/95 measures
>>Calculations, formula, questionable, 1773
>>Chrétien, Jean, former Finance Minister, record, 2108-9
>>>S.O. 31, 9899
>>Contributing factors, 5033
>>Controlling, 124, 186, 680, 682, 1438, 1442-3, 1445
>>>Government initiatives, 11288
>>Crisis, 6958, 13875, 13883, 13892-3
>>Current, 3088, 4621, 4625, 6459
>>Definition, 1820, 1950
>>Economic impact, 15488
>>Eliminating, 733, 2233-4, 2250, 2807-8, 5037-8, 5041, 7154-5, 7159, 10121, 11584-6, 13187, 13218, 13262, 13289, 15593, 17721-2, 17728
>>>By year 2000, Finance Department statement
>>>>o.q., 10146-7
>>>>S.O. 31, 10467
>>>Government proposals, lack, 11286-7, 11420, 13060
>>>>o.q., 10829-30, 15968
>>>Mount Allison University, example, S.O. 31, 10607
>>>National unity, relationship, 11267
>>>o.q., 14453, 15292, 16196, 16483, 17276-7
>>>Reform Party alternative taxpayers budget proposals, 10122, 10240, 10939-40, 11315, 11358, 11421, 11585, 13311, 13313-4, 13424-5
>>>>o.q., 9901-2, 9906
>>>>S.O. 31, 9900
>>>Reform Party policy, target date, 17684-7, 17721-2
>>>Target date, 17723, 17752
>>>>o.q., 9901-2, 10787-8, 10897-8, 14611
>>Federal government responsibility, 2109, 2230, 14133
>>Federal-provincial government programs overlap and duplication, relationship, Le Hir study, o.q., 14767
>>Forecasts, 1994-1995
>>>$39.7 billion, 1760, 1769, 1772, 1779-80, 1783, 1790, 1813, 1834, 1869, 1873, 1894, 1896, 2049, 2056, 2069, 2098, 2103, 2109, 2135, 2156, 2198-9, 2236, 2805, 3027, 3033, 3036, 3063, 3076, 5039-40, 7187-8, 8573, 9510, 10095
>>>Accuracy, Progressive Conservative government (Mulroney), failures, 1818, 3070
>>>Ernst & Young accounting firm in lieu of Auditor General, o.q., 1239
>>>Interest rate increase, impact, 7187
>>>>o.q., 2041-2
>>>Misrepresentation, Globe and Mail editorial charging, o.q., 1855, 1857
>>>o.q., 1101, 2668
>>>S.O. 31, 9721, 9998
>>Forecasts, 1995-96, $32.7 billion, 1827, 1873, 2805, 10095, 11266, 11288, 11337, 11584, 11588, 17692, 17718, 17725, 17730, 17753
>>>Interest rate increases, impact, o.q., 5574
>>Forecasts, 1996-97
>>>$24.3 billion, Feb. 27/95 budget statement, 10095, 10131, 10139, 10342, 11276, 11288, 11391, 17730, 17753
>>>$25 billion, target, 10121, 10124, 11267, 11580
>>>Further government expenditure cut-backs or tax increases to meet, Finance Minister P. Martin statement, 6685, 9513
>>>>o.q., 6899-901, 7181
>>>Inadequate, financial experts opinion, o.q., 9903-4
>>Forecast, 1997-1998, $17 billion, 17730, 17736, 17753
>>GDP percentage, 43, 60, 682, 696, 732, 1758, 1889, 4635-7, 4673, 11501
>>>o.q., 1423-4, 2669
>>>Reduction, 17728
>>>>Balanced, 17728
>>>Target, 2% in 1997-1998, 17678-9, 17681, 17689, 17693, 17698, 17730, 17746, 17753
>>>>Reform Party position, 1.5%, 17684, 17686
>>>Target, 3% in 1996-1997, 1709, 1733-4, 1742-3, 1754, 1775, 1784, 1819, 1842, 1847, 1865-6, 1868-9, 1873, 1880, 1895, 1908, 1943, 2049, 2109, 2115, 2158, 2200, 2471, 2495, 2592, 2640, 2684, 2805, 2832, 2881, 2929, 3027, 3113, 3198, 3289, 6535, 6675, 6685-6, 7008, 7146, 7150-1, 7159, 7187-8, 7199, 7201-3, 7207-8, 7950, 7952, 8315, 8373-4, 8491, 8497-9, 8503-4, 8506-9, 8569, 8571, 8573-4, 8585, 8588, 9572, 9581, 9586-7, 9668-9, 9680, 9765, 9770, 10096, 10215, 10240, 10342, 10498, 10543, 11287, 11314, 11337, 11358-9, 11361, 11392, 11394, 11418, 11451, 11586, 11824, 11830, 13304, 13306, 13312, 13422-3, 14032, 15490, 15492, 15495, 15497, 15499, 15593, 15913, 15929-30, 16453, 17679, 17688-9, 17692-3, 17698, 17715, 17721, 17724-5, 17728, 17740, 17752
>>>>o.q., 1722-4, 2040-1, 2175, 2851, 2853, 3045-6, 3276, 3518, 4655, 5658, 5816, 5895, 6150, 6560, 6634, 6714, 6774-5, 6850-2, 6900-1, 7034-5, 7096-7, 7628, 7630, 8119-20, 8244, 8249, 8427, 8596-7, 9143, 9195, 9777-80, 9821-2, 13723-4, 14452, 16070, 17039-40, 17276-7
>>>>S.O. 31, 6897, 8593, 8876
>>GNP percentage, 1152
>>Government expenditures, relationship, 6876, 10531, 17746
>>Government information for public, 1157
>>History, 1845, 2495, 3088, 10239
>>Human deficit, relationship, 662, 17747
>>Income crisis, not spending crisis, 1818-9, 1825, 2230, 2242
>>Income tax loopholes, relationship, 11591
>>Increase, 54, 732, 1759, 1885, 1892, 1906, 1939, 2688, 2690-1, 3088, 3118, 8811, 14001, 14031, 16453
>>>$100 million per day, 13059, 13069
>>>Since 1976, 12378
>>>Since 1980s, 6634
>>Interest charges, 2049, 7160
>>Interest rates
>>>1980's, impact, 705
>>>Increase, relationship, 11356
>>>>o.q., 9900
>>Liberal government (Trudeau), record, 1778, 3070, 3088, 10211, 11585
>>Liberal governments, former, 1732, 2109-10, 2235, 7152, 7154-5, 7165-6, 7195, 7335, 10546
>>Liberal Party election campaign promises, 11335
>>Members of Parliament, speaking freely, 3088
>>National debt interest charges, impact, 11586
>>Overweight condition, comparison, 1764-6
>>Progressive Conservative government (Mulroney) responsibility, 2108-9, 7949-50, 10215-6, 10539, 11585
>>>o.q., 17388
>>Public opinion, 238, 679
>>Quebec share, 1751
>>Reduction, 539, 703, 1673, 1778, 1788, 1885-6, 1898-9, 1903-5, 1937, 2088, 2107, 2144-5, 2147, 3088, 3112, 4443, 4793, 5033, 5746, 6395, 6426-7, 7008, 7134, 7190-2, 7199-200, 8328-9, 8571, 9285, 9288, 9290, 9511, 9668, 9670, 9680, 10216, 10222, 10449-51, 10458, 11333-4, 11451, 13306, 13340, 14033, 15785, 15916, 15928, 16455-6
>>>50%, 15784
>>>Action plan, lack, 10104
>>>Alberta, 3294
>>>Auditor General's report, comments, 80-1, 124, 781
>>>>o.q., 23, 15292
>>>Balanced approach, 11335-6, 17690, 17693, 17715, 17733
>>>>Job creation link, Feb. 22/94 budget, 2059, 2101, 2115, 2147, 2233-4, 5038
>>>Balanced budget, Reform Party goal, 80-1, 91-2, 780-2, 1041, 7998-9
>>>Bloc Québécois position, 38, 1167-8, 1771, 1779, 2142, 2202-3, 2684, 7123, 7136, 7156-7, 7187, 7199-200, 8055, 9572-3, 17731
>>>>o.q., 8936-7, 9058, 9144-5
>>>Budget, Feb. 22/94, 1712, 1730, 1732-3, 1740-1, 1753, 1788, 1841-2, 2136, 2152, 2831, 17679
>>>>o.q., 1721-2
>>>Budget, Feb. 27/95, measures, 10126-7, 10138-40, 10160-1, 10166-7, 10177, 10180, 10343, 10345-6, 10486-7, 10535-9, 10725-6, 11257, 11266, 11279, 11302-3, 11359, 11415, 11421-2, 11822, 13305, 15472-3, 17679
>>>>Impact, S.O. 31, 10143-4
>>>Burden
>>>>Disadvantaged bearing, 6610-1, 7075, 7077, 7114, 7123, 7136, 8326, 8333-4, 8372, 8499-500, 8502-3, 13340, 17680-2, 17684, 17716-8
>>>>>o.q., 17136
>>>>Transferring to taxpayers and provinces, 2048, 2202, 2687, 3022, 3034, 10532, 11584, 11593
>>>Cabinet position, division, o.q., 6851-2
>>>C.D. Howe Institute study, $7.2 billion additional cuts, need, o.q., 4695-6
>>>Defence expenditure reduction, impact, 2103, 2201
>>>Deficit bond, issuing, proposal, S.O. 31, 7848
>>>Deficit reduction surtax, Finance Standing Committee report recommendation, o.q., 8878-80
>>>Departmental surpluses, contributing to, 17690
>>>Economic growth, impact, o.q., 6899
>>>Election issue, 1787, 7952
>>>Election promise, 17715
>>>Expenditure reductions/revenue and tax increases, 8569, 11779, 12270, 13907, 17728-9, 17746-7
>>>Federal-provincial co-operation, o.q., 9776, 16030-1
>>>Federal-provincial finance ministers meeting, June 1994, strategy, o.q., 4275
>>>Financial markets, negative assessment, o.q., 2851-2
>>>Forecasts, o.q., 9057
>>>Foreign holdings, relationship, o.q., 15295
>>>Further reductions, Prime Minister Chrétien/Finance Minister P. Martin positions, differences, o.q., 3276
>>>Goodale, Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister, opposition and government positions, 11270
>>>Government commitment. lack, 17696-7
>>>Government expenditures, reduction, relationship, 1832, 2471, 6582, 9352-3, 11391, 13330, 14741, 15932
>>>>o.q., 3045-6, 5340-1, 5657-8, 5893, 5940, 6331, 6850-1, 6899, 8348, 9058-9
>>>>Petition, 11197, 11572
>>>Government failure, o.q., 9057
>>>Government plan, 4629-30, 4635, 4642-6, 15913-4
>>>>S.O. 31, 6849, 7551, 9721
>>>Government policy, 33, 733-4, 1834, 2471-2, 2494-5, 2498, 7190, 7193, 7200
>>>>o.q., 2852, 6772-3
>>>Government revenues, increase, relationship, 2236, 3293
>>>Government targets, failure, M. on supply (Abbott), 9865-97, 9909-30
>>>Inflation, use, ineffective, 704-5
>>>Interest rate reduction factor, benefits, 17685-6, 17699, 17715, 17729
>>>Interest rates, reducing, 17746
>>>Job creation, relationship, 2088, 2136, 2205, 2330, 17678-9, 17715, 17729
>>>Liberal Party election promise, 11415
>>>M. on supply (Grubel), 9565-97, 9609-30
>>>National debt interest payments, impact, 5041-2
>>>National strategy, federal-provincial co-operation, o.q., 3996
>>>Preoccupation, social issues, ignoring, 2210-1
>>>Progressive Conservative government (Mulroney), attempts, 1779, 1781, 1865-6, 3293, 11337, 11824
>>>>o.q., 6901-2
>>>Provinces, examples, 11334
>>>Public opinion, 11393, 13403
>>>Public survey, proposals, 687, 735
>>>Quarterly reports, government issuing, 2233
>>>Quebec, relationship, 4630
>>>Rate, 17696, 17725
>>>>Increasing, Reform Party position, o.q., 17385-8
>>>>Short-term/long-term, 17687-8
>>>Reform Party
>>>>Contingency plans, 2057, 2059
>>>>Position, 1160, 1192, 1518, 1779, 1781, 1806, 1810, 1866, 2057, 2059-60, 2147, 2201-2, 2242, 2251-2, 2593, 3037, 4446, 4635-7, 4673, 6582, 7090, 7125, 7161, 7170-1, 7195, 7200-1, 7205, 7211, 7951, 8355-6, 8494-5, 8501, 8504, 8506, 8569, 9584-5, 10341-2, 11415, 14034-5, 15488-9, 15772, 17697, 17715, 17728-9, 17746
>>>>>o.q., 6774, 6900, 7096-7, 8428, 9726, 9821-2
>>>>>S.O. 31, 8242
>>>Revenue growth and stable interest rate basis, 1760
>>>>o.q., 2041-2
>>>Revenue increases, taxation, role, 17698-9
>>>Saskatchewan, 6738
>>>Senior citizens role, 16530
>>>Social deficit, relationship, 17681
>>>Social security system reform, relationship, 7080, 9352-3
>>>>o.q., 8347
>>>Social security system, relationship, 17680, 17687-8, 17699, 17728-9, 17752-3
>>>Strategies, 752-3, 777, 1438, 1442-3, 1445, 1779, 7151
>>>>o.q., 229-30, 386-7, 641, 1180-1, 1234, 1552, 1722, 2486, 4275, 6774, 6851
>>>Targets, 207, 6972, 6994, 10245-6, 10787-8, 11257, 11273, 11280, 11356
>>>>1994-1995, met, o.q., 16069-70
>>>>Meeting, o.q., 17581-2
>>>>o.q., 9057, 9901, 16192-3, 17385-6, 17499
>>>>Two-year rolling, 11314
>>>>>o.q., 16192
>>>Transfer payments to provinces, impact see Transfer payments to provinces
>>>Unemployment Insurance Account surplus, use, 8561
>>>>o.q., 8173-4, 17136-8
>>>>S.O. 31, 9721, 17495
>>>Unemployment insurance cut-backs, percentage, 3025, 3030, 3057, 3066
>>>Victory bond proposal, Finance Minister P. Martin statement, o.q., 8348
>>>Without tax increases, 2115, 11585
>>>>o.q., 6852, 9906
>>>>Petition, 17505
>>>>S.O. 31, 9897
>>>See also Agricultural products; Disabled and the handicapped; Economy--Growth; Foreign investments; Government--Decentralization; Government contracts; Government credit rating--Foreign currency debt--National debt level; Government programs and services--Federal-provincial duplication; Interest rates--Reducing; Old age pensions--Benefits; Senior citizens--Transfer payments; Transfer payments to provinces; Unemployment insurance--Employment insurance; Unemployment insurance account--Surplus
>>Social security system expenditures, relationship, 13221-2, 15489-90
>>>o.q., 9907, 17387
>>Structural, federal-provincial duplication and overlap, 2092
>>Sustainability, 15490
>>Taxation, relationship, 7160-1
>>>o.q., 5341-2, 6560
>>See also Canadian Heritage Department; Confederation--National debt; Dollar, exchange rate--Decline; Economic conditions--Deficit--Quebec sovereignty threat; Economic development; Film and video industry--Loan Guarantee Program; Foreign investment; GST; Health care--Funding; Health insurance (Medicare)--Expenditures; Infrastructure program; Interest rates--Increase; Job creation; Members of Parliament--Pensions; Multiculturalism--Funding, national debt; National debt; Social security system--National debt--Reform; Taxation; Unemployment--National debt; Unemployment insurance