A Strong Plan for Responsible Resource Development On Tuesday, Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural Resources, announced the Harper Government’s plan for Responsible Resource Development, which will streamline the review process for major economic projects in Canada.
Stephen Harper’s Conservative Government is focused squarely on what matters to Canadians: jobs, growth and long-term prosperity.
In 2010, Canada’s natural resource sectors employed more than 760,000 workers across the country. In fact, the mining and energy sectors alone represent 10 per cent of the Canadian economy and 40 per cent of our exports.
In the next ten years, more than 500 new projects representing over $500 billion in new investments will be proposed for Canada. It’s clear the potential for job growth is immense.
That’s why the Harper Government is acting through Economic Action Plan 2012 on our plan for Responsible Resource Development. Building on action we’ve already taken to better streamline project review processes, we’ll invest more int |
STATEMENT BY PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER IN BRAMPTON, ONTARIO CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY
Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the following statement in Brampton, Ontario:
“Friends, yesterday I reluctantly visited the Governor-General. I say reluctantly because as much as I appreciate your enthusiasm, as much as I enjoy campaigning all across this great country, and as confident as I am in our team and our chances, this is not where I should be.
“Not where any of us: Leaders, Ministers, MPs, should be. We should all be back in Ottawa. At our desks. And working!
“Working to protect our economic advantage. Working to complete our economic recovery. And working to keep your taxes down by implementing the budget that the minister of finance tabled on Tuesday. That budget is the next phase of Canada’s Economic Action Plan, a plan by which this country, Canada, has been leading the global recovery!
“It is a low-tax plan of critical importance to jobs, growth and the financial security of hardworking Canadian families.
“But, as |
STATEMENT BY PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER AT RIDEAU HALL Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the following statement at Rideau Hall:
“Good morning.
“In light of yesterday’s disappointing events I met with His Excellency the Governor General, and he has agreed that Parliament should be dissolved.
“Before I say anything else, I would like to begin by thanking Canadians for the confidence and trust they have given me and my colleagues over the past five years.
“It has been a privilege and honour to serve as Prime Minister of the best country in the world as together we faced the most difficult days of the global economic recession.
“At the same time, because of the great challenges that still confront us I understand that our job is not done.
“Today the world economy remains fragile. The risk of a new international debt crisis is still with us. Armed conflict, political turmoil and humanitarian disasters in the Middle East and elsewhere have serious potential consequences for the global recovery.
“Against this backdro |
Mr. Mulcair’s NDP Team Late yesterday, NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair announced his new shadow cabinet. This was Mr. Mulcair’s chance to demonstrate to Canadians that the NDP is a serious party representing moderate, responsible policies. Yet Mr. Mulcair chose a team that threatens dangerous economic experiments and believes Canada needs higher taxes, bigger deficits and less jobs and prosperity.
The shadow of Mr. Mulcair’s team is long indeed. With 55 critics, the NDP now have significantly more critics than the actual Cabinet charged with running the government – and nearly half are former union bosses or employees.
Mr. Mulcair chose to promote activists who have lobbied against Canada’s ability to develop and sell its own resources. It is a team of those who have consistently put the rights of criminals ahead of victims, repeatedly blocking Conservative efforts to crack down on crime.
It is also a team that cannot be trusted, comprised of many NDP MPs who promised their constituents that they would |