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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[ ]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [Essay on a part of ]
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[ ]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [Quebec, Bloc Quebecois ]
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[x]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [ ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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Dizzed: 10/94 # of Words:1715 School: ? State: ?
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>Chop Here>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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Bloc Quebecois
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The Bloc Quebecois is the hope for Quebec, while the rest of Canada
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plot's to take away our individuality, heritage and language from us, we
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the Bloc are sworn to protect these segments of Quebec. The purpose of the
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Bloc Quebecois is to ensure that Quebec is fairly represented in the House
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of Commons and that we, the people of Quebec, obtain all that we require to
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ensure that Quebec will be strong in the future when we separate from
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Canada. If we get a fair number of seats in the House of Commons, we would
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not use ourpower to block economic benefits for other parts of Canada. But
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we would act in the best self-interests of Quebec. The Bloc is a
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pro-sovereignty party, and the Bloc believes that only through Quebec
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sovereignty can Quebec achieve its legitimate ambitions and Canada can have
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a centralized government.
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What the Bloc offers to the people of Quebec is that they are given
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the choice to vote for something they have wanted for a long time, a
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separatist party, or one of the traditional federalist parties. The
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sovereignty of Quebec may only be decided in a referendum but until that
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time, the Bloc will work within the rules of the game to look out for
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Quebec's interests in the federal parliament. Our plan for deficit
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reduction will ensure more efficiency at all levels of government. The plan
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we have is in three basic steps to cut $10 billion from the federal deficit
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per year. 1 Our strategy is to cut and eliminate government spending and
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inefficiency by about an estimated $6 billion annually, without touching
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any of the social programs. 2, We would also chop the military budget by
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25% to save approximately $3 billion. 3 We would also give the
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responsibility of job training programs to the province of Quebec to save
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nearly $1 billion. Another part of our scheme would be to have $5 billion
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per year transferred from existing programs to job creating ones. There
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would be no cuts in transfer payments or social programs. We would
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repatriate the $28 billion in taxes that Quebecers pay to Ottawa. When
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Quebec separates, we would be willing to take 18% of the deficit, we feel
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that this is a fair amount considering that we benefited from its use. We
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are in favour of eliminating the tax shelters for the rich. We want to
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promote investment in our economy and would stimulate it by private
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investment, we would offer a 20% investment tax credit. We would proceed
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in the creation of an industrial launching plan as to help in the launching
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of industries. In the area of job creation, the Bloc will increase federal
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funding for job creation programs in each province. The Bloc would also
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seek the possibility of obtaining complete control of unemployment
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insurance for the province of Quebec. There would be a $10 billion cut in
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the budget and $5 billion of this would be reinvested in job creation
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programs. A proposed public works program would be a Windsor-Quebec City
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high speed train. This project would create nearly 8000 jobs. For social
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programs, the Bloc is in opposition of Medicare user fees and endorses
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universality and we feel that the provinces, not Ottawa, should be in
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charge of social programs. Ottawa should hand over complete control of the
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education and manpower and training, but should still continue to fund
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these programs. We would make no cuts in the social welfare assistance
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levels. On the topic of the North American Free Trade Agreement, we are in
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favour of free trade and the NAFTA agreement but we would want a series of
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transitional measures, which are permitted in the deal, to be implemented
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to ease in job shifts and help in the retraining of workers. For the Health
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care plan, the Bloc feels that it should be made the responsibility of the
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provincial governments. We are in support of universal Medicare and oppose
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all user fees for essential services. We also want revision of the Canada
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Health Act that punishes provinces for implementing user fees for
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non-essential services to be scrapped. Upon the subject of political
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reform, all that we are concerned with is Quebec's independence. Before
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that is implemented however, the Bloc would be in favour of abolishing the
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senate. We, the people of Quebec, are tired of negotiations because they
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have accomplished nothing. For the levels of immigration, we feel that they
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are satisfactory as they are. We would increase the spending for
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French-language training programs for immigrants. Immigrants are essential
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for our economy as they bring new skills and present themselves as a new
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consumer and spender in our economy.
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CRITIQUES
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Progressive Conservatives
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The Progressive Conservatives have already shown themselves unfit to
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be in power after their last two terms in office. Campbell and her staff
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were even unable to control their campaign budget as they first spent $4
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million, nearly double the amount they were allotted to (it was an
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estimated 1.8 million), and then they jumped the gun on when they were to
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begin advertisements. If they are unable to even follow simple rules how
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could they run this country? The free trade agreement was supposed to
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create jobs but instead it just made people lose their jobs. Within the
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first three years of the free trade agreement, Canada lost 400 000
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manufacturing jobs alone. They took money from the unemployment insurance
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fund and put it into the retraining programs. This only ended up in making
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it harder for the young and unskilled people in our society. In 1992,
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Canada had an unemployment rate of 11.2%, this was the highest of all the
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G-7 countries, this is the legacy with which the PC's have left us with.
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They made it more expensive to be a student as they scrapped the
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no-interest policy meaning that students, most of them without a job, would
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have to pay the loan back in full and with full interest paid as well. The
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PC's made it easier for the rich companies to get away with paying little
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taxes while the middle class and the small businesses were hammered and
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were made to pay more taxes. The federal debt rose by approximately $250
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billion within the 8 or so years the PC's have been in power. In
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1991/1992, Canada paid out $242 million to "certain heavily indebted"
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countries in order to help the reduce and/or service their own debt.
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CRITIQUES
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Reform Party of Canada
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The reform party has many new ideas that are very impossible to
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achieve. The reform party believes that they can cut down the deficit
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within 3 years. This will cause a great strain upon our economy as there
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will be no money for anything. Without any subsidiaries, there will be
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many lost jobs and many consumers will be too afraid to buy or spend upon
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anything. The reform plan to cut all social programs. They will not fund
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any bilingual and multi-cultural programs, in essence they are destroying
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the very spirit of Canada. They also plan to cut back on old age pensions,
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pensions that the elderly rely upon for survival. This will also end up
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hurting the generation of baby boomers that will soon be approaching the
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retirement ages. Their policy of recall does not appear to be a very sound
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proposal. How can there be any type of stability in the government if
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their representatives are being replaced every four months? Their plans
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for the deficit are all based upon a very, very optimistic growth level in
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the economy and if this growth level is not achieved then their plan will
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fail. Their deficit reduction plan will also kill the poor and kill the
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economy as there will be no money for social programs or anything else.
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They want two levels of Medicare, one for the rich and another for the
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poor. Which one you would go to would be determined by how much you can
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afford to pay. Their plan to stifle immigration is also hurtful for the
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economy as when immigrants come to Canada they are already educated saving
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us money there and they present themselves as a willing consumer to our
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economy ready to spend money.
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CRITIQUES
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Liberals
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The Liberals are another party with a track record of causing problems
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for the country of Canada. One of their main points is how they will do
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away with the GST but they will just be replacing it with another tax that
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will supposedly be more efficient than the present GST. Cretien has
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already said that he will allow for the level of inflation to rise and will
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not stop it. Under previous Liberal leadership, the federal debt rose from
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$25 billion to $240 billion, all within 18 years. During 1977 to 1979,
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Jean Cretien was the federal finance minister and during this time the
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nation debt rose from $31.1 billion to $53.6 billion. The liberals claim
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that they wish to re negotiate the NAFTA deal because it is unsatisfactory
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but before they did nothing when they first could have voted it down in the
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House of Commons. Their plan to allow the deficit to rise is a very
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dangerous one because if they let the deficit get too high then it will be
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even harder to bring it down in the future.
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New Democrat Party
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The NDP has planned to spend too much upon reorganizing the
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infrastructure programs, approximately $15 billion. The NDP plan is to tax
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the rich corporations heavily, this would only make it harder on the
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Canadian economy as many foreign investors and businesses would find it a
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lot less attractive to invest within Canada. With the possibility of
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having rich corporations leaving would be very hard on the economy even
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more jobs would be lost. The NDP maintains that social programs will not be
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cut but do not say where the money will come from to maintain them. They
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also have said that they like the present levels of immigration,
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approximately 250 000 people per year, but Audrey McLaughlin said that she
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was in favour of having 1% of the Canadian population be immigrants per
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year, this works out to about 260 000 people per year. Not much in the way
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of an increase.
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