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Coming out of the red
by Paul Steckle,
Huron -Bruce MP
Well, the Minister of Finance still
has his hand on the tiller of good
ship Canada's economy.
It would seem that the course that
was charted last year continues to
take us out of financial stormy
waters and towards a calmer sea. In
fact, Paul Martin's 95/96 budget
has addressed the deficit in such a
convincing way that not only have
the concerns of the global financial
community been, to a large degree,
laid to rest but, just as importantly,
here at home a post budget poll had
an impressive 60 per cent plus
approval rating from concerned
Canadians.
1t would appear, that contrary to
the expectations of some of the
more pessimistic editorialists, the
International Monetary Fund will
not be taking over Canada's
economic systems yet awhile.
That's not to say what lies ahead
will be easy. Far from it. But what
it will do is to put in place the
systems that will allow our country
to play an effective part on the
stage of a rapidly changing world.
The Canada that our children and
theirs will inherit will be a nation
finally set free from the shackles of
debt.
This year's budget builds on last
year's success. The 94/95 report
card is in, and it's good. We have
the fastest real output growth of any
of our G7 fellow 'club' members.
Unemployment has fallen by 1.7
per cent, and 433,000 new, full-
time jobs have been created.
Manufacturing output is up over 9
per cent and our improved cost -
performance has led to record-
breaking exports, a growing trade
surplus, and a dramatic
Paul Steckle, MP
improvement in the current account.
Throw in the impressively well-
received trips by Canada's number
one salesman, Prime Minister
Chr6tien, and it would seem that the
climate seems set fair for further
expansion still.
But none of this has come easily,
and there is no getting away from it
that tough times lie ahead. Canada
and Canadians must respond to the
challenge of a change, and this
never comes easily. Finance
Minister Paul Martin said that
"there are times in the progress of a
people when fundamental challen-
ges must be faced, fundamental
choices made - a new course
charted," and we're now committed
to a course that requires each of us
not just to do business well, but do
it beuer, and more prudently, than
ever before.
The federal government is already
beginning to pare itself down to its
essential priorities with the provin-
ces being given far more indepen-
dence and scope to conduct them-
selves than before. Already federal
departments are becoming leaner.
As a result of the intensive program
review that went on last year,
departments are ridding themselves
of any activities that lie outside
their direct areas of program
responsibilities.
I know that the complications of
federal/provincial duplication, and
even duplication within the federal
level has been a subject of on-going
worry. One of the common threads
that ran through the farm and in-
dustry sectoral meetings, that we
held last year through my riding
which looked at the future challen-
ges for Canadian agriculture, em-
phasized the need for elimination of
duplication of services, inefficient
programming, and unpractical
regulatory bodies. What came out
from everybody involved in those
meetings was that those are things
that create complications and cost
money. Nobody can afford either.
Ralph Goodale has been hearing
the views of farmers and agri-food
industry workers all last year. He
has emphasized the need for a
return to the old values of self-
reliance and a greater freedom from
government intervention in the
running and direction of their
businesses. The package of
budgetary changes he has
introduced are driven by the need to
realize the government's vision for
agriculture and agri-food within the
contest of fiscal restraint.
Among others these include the
reform of the western grain
transportation system which
includes the elimination of the
annual railway subsidy (this will be
cushioned by a multi-level series of
compensatory payouts and credit
guarantees); a 30 per cent reduction
in the dairy subsidy over the next
two years; the elimination of the
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