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                         Bloc Quebecois

     The Bloc Quebecois is the hope for Quebec, while the rest of Canada
plot's to take away our individuality, heritage and language from us, we
the Bloc are sworn to protect these segments of Quebec. The purpose of the
Bloc Quebecois is to ensure that Quebec is fairly represented in the House
of Commons and that we, the people of Quebec, obtain all that we require to
ensure that Quebec will be strong in the future when we separate from
Canada.  If we get a fair number of seats in the House of Commons, we would
not use ourpower to block economic benefits for other parts of Canada.  But
we would act in the best self-interests of Quebec.  The Bloc is a
pro-sovereignty party, and the Bloc believes that only through Quebec
sovereignty can Quebec achieve its legitimate ambitions and Canada can have
a centralized government.
     
     What the Bloc offers to the people of Quebec is that they are given
the choice to vote for something they have wanted for a long time, a
separatist party, or one of the traditional federalist parties.  The
sovereignty of Quebec may only be decided in a referendum but until that
time, the Bloc will work within the rules of the game to  look out for
Quebec's interests in the federal parliament. Our plan for deficit
reduction will ensure more efficiency at all levels of government. The plan
we have is in three basic steps to cut $10 billion from the federal deficit
per year. 1 Our strategy is to cut and eliminate government spending and
inefficiency by about an estimated $6 billion annually, without touching
any of the social programs.  2, We would also chop the military budget  by
25% to save approximately $3 billion.  3 We would also give the
responsibility of job training programs to the province of Quebec to save
nearly $1 billion.  Another part of our scheme would be to have $5 billion
per year transferred from existing programs to job creating ones. There
would be no cuts in transfer payments or social programs.  We would
repatriate the $28 billion in taxes that Quebecers pay to Ottawa.  When
Quebec separates, we would be willing to take 18% of the deficit, we feel
that this is a fair amount considering that we benefited from its use. We
are in favour of eliminating the tax shelters for the rich.  We want to
promote investment in our economy and would stimulate it by private
investment, we would offer a 20% investment tax credit.  We would proceed
in the creation of an industrial launching plan as to help in the launching
of industries. In the area of job  creation, the Bloc will increase federal
funding for job creation programs in each province. The Bloc would also
seek  the possibility of obtaining complete control of unemployment
insurance for the province of Quebec.  There would be a $10 billion cut in
the budget and $5 billion of this would be reinvested in job creation
programs.  A proposed public works program would be a Windsor-Quebec City
high speed train.  This project would create nearly 8000 jobs.  For social
programs,  the Bloc is in opposition of Medicare user fees and endorses
universality and we feel that the provinces, not Ottawa, should be in
charge of social programs.  Ottawa should hand over complete control of the
education and manpower and training, but should still continue to fund
these programs.  We would make no cuts in the social welfare assistance
levels.  On the topic of the North American Free Trade Agreement, we are in
favour of free trade and the NAFTA agreement but we would want a series of
transitional measures, which are permitted in the deal, to be implemented
to ease in job shifts and help in the retraining of workers. For the Health
care plan, the Bloc feels that it should be made the responsibility of the
provincial governments. We are in support of universal Medicare and oppose
all user fees for essential services.  We also want revision of the Canada
Health Act that punishes provinces for implementing user fees for
non-essential services to be scrapped.  Upon the subject of political
reform, all that we are concerned with is Quebec's independence.  Before
that is implemented however, the Bloc would be in favour of abolishing the
senate.  We, the people of Quebec, are tired of negotiations because they
have accomplished nothing. For the levels of immigration, we feel that they
are satisfactory as they are.  We would increase the spending for
French-language training programs for immigrants.  Immigrants are essential
for our economy as they bring new skills and present themselves as a new
consumer and spender in our economy.


                              CRITIQUES

Progressive Conservatives
     
     The Progressive Conservatives have already shown themselves unfit to
be in power after their last two terms in office. Campbell and her staff
were even unable to control their campaign budget as they first spent $4
million, nearly double the amount they were allotted to (it was an
estimated 1.8 million), and then they jumped the gun on when they were to
begin advertisements.  If they are unable to even follow simple rules how
could they run this country?  The free trade agreement was supposed to
create jobs but instead it just made people lose their jobs.  Within the
first three years of the free trade agreement, Canada lost 400 000
manufacturing jobs alone.  They took money from the unemployment insurance
fund and put it into the retraining programs.  This only ended up in making
it harder for the young and unskilled people in our society.  In 1992,
Canada had an unemployment rate of 11.2%, this was the highest of all the
G-7 countries, this is the legacy with which the PC's have left us with.
They made it more expensive to be a student as they scrapped the
no-interest policy meaning that students, most of them without a job, would
have to pay the loan back in full and with full interest paid as well.  The
PC's made it easier for the rich companies to get away with paying little
taxes while the middle class and the small businesses were hammered and
were made to  pay more taxes.  The federal debt rose by approximately $250
billion within the 8 or so years the PC's have been in power.  In
1991/1992,  Canada paid out $242 million to "certain heavily indebted"
countries in order to help the reduce and/or service their own debt.

                              CRITIQUES

Reform Party of Canada
     
     The reform party has many new ideas that are very impossible to
achieve.  The reform party believes that they can cut down the deficit
within 3 years.  This will cause a great strain upon our economy as there
will be no money for anything.  Without any subsidiaries, there will be
many lost jobs and many consumers will be too afraid to buy or spend upon
anything.  The reform plan to cut all  social programs.  They will not fund
any bilingual and multi-cultural programs, in essence they are destroying
the very spirit of Canada.  They also plan to cut back on old age pensions,
pensions that the elderly rely upon for survival.  This will also end up
hurting the generation of baby boomers that will soon be approaching the
retirement ages.  Their policy of recall does not appear to be a very sound
proposal.  How can there be any type of stability in the government if
their representatives are being replaced every four months?  Their plans
for the deficit are all based upon a very, very optimistic growth level in
the economy and if this growth level is not achieved then their plan will
fail. Their deficit reduction plan will also kill the poor and kill the
economy as there will be no money for social programs or anything else.
They want two levels of Medicare, one for the rich and another for the
poor.  Which one you would go to would be determined by how much you can
afford to pay.  Their plan to stifle immigration is also hurtful for the
economy as when immigrants come to Canada they are already educated saving
us money there and they present themselves as a willing consumer to our
economy ready to spend money.

                              CRITIQUES

Liberals
     
     The Liberals are another party with a track record of causing problems
for the country of Canada.  One of their main points is how they will do
away with the GST but they will just be replacing it with another tax that
will supposedly be more efficient than the present GST.  Cretien has
already said that he will allow for the level of inflation to rise and will
not stop it.  Under previous Liberal leadership, the federal debt rose from
$25 billion to $240 billion, all within 18 years.  During 1977 to 1979,
Jean Cretien was the federal finance minister and during this time the
nation debt rose from $31.1 billion to $53.6 billion.  The liberals claim
that they wish to re negotiate the NAFTA deal because it is unsatisfactory
but before they did nothing when they first could have voted it down in the
House of Commons.  Their plan to allow the deficit to rise is a very
dangerous one because if they let the deficit get too high then it will be
even harder to bring it down in the future.


                         New Democrat Party 
     
     The NDP has planned to spend too much upon reorganizing the
infrastructure programs, approximately $15 billion.  The NDP plan is to tax
the rich corporations heavily,  this would only make it harder on the
Canadian economy as many foreign investors and businesses would find it a
lot less attractive to invest within Canada.  With the  possibility of
having rich corporations leaving would be very hard on the economy even
more jobs would be lost. The NDP maintains that social programs will not be
cut but do not say where the money will come from to maintain them.  They
also have said that they like the present levels of immigration,
approximately 250 000 people per year, but Audrey McLaughlin said that she
was in favour of having 1% of the Canadian population be immigrants per
year, this works out to about 260 000 people per year.  Not much in the way
of an increase.
