HST cheque may be in the mail but Ontario residents are not expecting it More than 80 per cent of Ontarians are unsure or not expecting to receive the HST transitional benefit TORONTO, June 7 /CNW/ – More than 6.6 million Ontario households will receive the HST Transitional Benefit payment [Read more]
HUGHES EXHORTE LE GOUVERNEMENT À FRACTIONNER SON INQUIÉTANT PROJET DE LOI FOURRE-TOUT Ottawa – Dans son discours à la Chambre des communes hier, la députée d’Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing, Carol Hughes, a invité les députés à voter contre le vaste projet de loi d’exécution du [Read more]
HUGHES CALLS ON GOVERNMENT TO SPLIT UP TROUBLING OMNIBUS BILL OTTAWA, ON – Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP Carol Hughes delivered a speech in the House of Commons yesterday calling on members to vote against the Conservative government’s sweeping budget implementation bill. “To put it [Read more]
HST Cuts Red Tape, Creates Jobs June 4, 2010 2:15 PM McGuinty Government Making It Easier To Do Business Ontario is cutting red tape as part of its plan to create jobs and grow the economy. It will eliminate over 5,000 pages of outdated rules, regulations and operating procedures by implementing [Read more]
Township of Manitouwadge Economic Development will be hosting an HST Seminar Monday, June 7th, 2010 at 6:30 pm @ Township of Manitouwadge Council Chambers This seminar will explain how the Harmonized Sales Tax works. Topics Covered in the HST Seminar: Help you understand the differences and [Read more]
CANADIANS STUCK WITH SKYROCKETTING SECURITY COSTS FOR G8 & G20 Ottawa – Canadians hoping for help in economically devastated regions of the country will be footing outrageously inflated security costs for the political elite instead said Carol Hughes while speaking to a motion calling for [Read more]
GIROUX’S OVERTIME HEROICS WORTH MENTION IN HOUSE OF COMMONS Ottawa – Rookie scoring sensation Claude Giroux’s overtime goal in game 3 of the Stanley Cup final was a topic of interest in the House of Commons this morning. Rising to deliver a speech on the Budget Implementation Act, [Read more]
HUGHES OUT TO JIG UP FISHING TOURISTS FOR AMK Ottawa – If you want to wet a line this summer then Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing should be on your short-list of destinations according to MP, Carol Hughes. With access to cold water fisheries on two Great Lakes and thousands of lakes, rivers and [Read more]
May 21, 2010 NEW DEMOCRATS WELCOME GOVERNMENT’S INTENTION TO NEGOTIATE HST WITH FIRST NATIONS Elliot Lake – Months of repeated requests from Northern Ontario New Democrat MPs paid off late Thursday as Finance Minister Jim Flaherty agreed to meet with the leadership of Ontario First Nations [Read more]
MPs Tour Canadian Forest Industry Success Story Employee-owned Harmac mill to increase production despite decimated sector, MPs find NANAIMO – Nestled on Canada’s west coast is a rare pulp & paper success story that could serve as a model to revive other struggling mills across Canada, say [Read more]
HUGHES ADVOCATES CONSUMER PROTECTION ON FAIRNESS AT THE PUMPS ACT OTTAWA – Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP Carol Hughes spoke in the House of Commons last night to voice her concerns with the Conservative governments Fairness at the Pumps Act. Bill C-14 is meant to address significant problems [Read more]
MARIHUANA, CIGARETTES SEIZED (WHITE RIVER, ON.) – On May 7, 2010 at approximately 11:14 pm Superior East OPP in White River had occasion to stop a westbound 2009 Pontiac, black in colour bearing British Columbia plates, on Highway 17 20 kilometres south of White River for a traffic violation. [Read more]
BATCHEWANA FIRST NATION OF OJIBWAYS RANKIN RESERVE 15D, GOULAIS BAY RESERVE 15A, OBADJIWAN RESERVE 15E, WHITEFISH ISLAND 15 Press Release May 7, 2010 “MOA Does Not Guarantee Point Of Purchase Tax Exemption For First Nations” Batchewana First Nation represented by Chief and Council are [Read more]
NEW DEMOCRAT BILLS PASS IMPORTANT VOTES IN COMMONS Ottawa – Carol Hughes is lauding the passage of an important Climate Change Bill and the continued success of another bill that will bring an element of fairness to the Canada pension deductions for members of Canada’s military and RCMP. Both [Read more]
House of Commons Adopts Key Climate Change Bill Opposition parties unite to pass C-311, the Climate Change Accountability Act, 149 to 136 OTTAWA – The country’s only federal climate change bill passed a final vote in the House of Commons Wednesday night with the support of New Democrat, Bloc, [Read more]
