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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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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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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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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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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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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The government has come to the conclusion that that is the appropriate amount that he should receive.
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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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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.
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(I) am grateful to David Dingwall for the great job he did, not only financially, but it's also clear he strengthened the morale and the pride of the organization,