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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In celebrating the 50th anniversary of Canada's program of universal polio vaccination, we are indeed recognizing an important milestone in Canadian history, ... Although many of our memories associated with polio are somber, this stamp is a celebration of the fact that polio is indeed just a memory in Canada .
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The federal government is swimming in cash and there is absolutely no reason to increase income taxes on hard-working Canadians.
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I regret having inadvertently given the wrong information,
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Clearly they are ambitious in their thinking, ... They are definitely, seriously interested.
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If Nafta is called into question by U.S. action, it calls for us to diversify our trade and investment relations. On the Chinese side I am sure there will be receptivity.
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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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It will be a huge task, with major implications on jobs and users of government programs.
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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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It's not every day that your sitting state senator takes on a run for Congress, and we need to see how that plays out.
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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.
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This government is either missing in action or moving in the wrong direction.
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This budget puts ideology before economics and policy, and fails to provide a sound economic vision for the future.