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Click here to view the original document (PDF). CANADA Prices and Incomes commissions Commissions des prix et revenus February 2, 1970. Tentative Proposals re Governmental Support for the Commission’s Restraint Program (1) Government Expenditure, Taxation and Borrowing. If meaningful co-operation is to be expected from private groups in a broad program of price and income restraint, they must be convinced that governments at all levels are prepared to lead the way by demonstrating firm restraint with respect to increases in their own spending programs, lending to the private sector and… Read more Federal-Provincial Conference, Ottawa →
Click here to view the original document (PDF). MANITOBA TAXING POWERS [Page 1] It is the belief of the Government of Manitoba that the taxing power must be employed in a manner to ensure that each jurisdiction has the money to carry out its responsibilities. This means that the federal government must control the major tax fields because only the federal government can effectively employ taxation as a means of ensuring economic stability and as a means of equitably redistributing the wealth of the nation. Nevertheless Manitoba accepts as a… Read more First Ministers Constitutional Conference Taxing Powers (December 18, 1969) →
Click here to view the original document (PDF). December 1969 A BRIEFING PAPER ON DISCUSSIONS WITHIN THE COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS ON FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS FOREWORD The purpose of this document is to provide each government with a summary description of the discussions which have taken place during the first two meetings of the Committee of Ministers on Fundamental Rights. It concentrates on identifying the main points of view and ideas which arose during the discussions. In the interests of brevity, many shades of meaning and auxiliary or illustrative points which were… Read more First Ministers’ Constitutional Conference — A Briefing Paper on Discussions within the Committee of Ministers on Fundamental Rights →
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Click here to view the original document (PDF). REGIONAL DISPARITIES STATEMENT OF HON. W.N. ROWE, NEWFOUNDLAND The three major types of disparities in Canada which have an economic base have been identified and described on many occasions. The first is that disparity, or inequality or unfair difference which exists in Canada from individual person to individual person or from family to family in respect of income and standard of living. This type of disparity has no claim to be peculiar to any particular region of Canada, but is found in… Read more First Ministers Constitutional Conference Statement of Hon. W.N. Rowe →
Click here to view the original document (PDF). MANITOBA THE SPENDING POWER (SUGGESTION OF PRIORITY OPTION GRANTS) The June 1969 Constitutional Conference, “Agreed that the Parliament of Canada should continue to have the power to make conditional grants to provincial governments, providing there is a satisfactory formula for determining a national consensus in favour of particular programs, and provided there is a satisfactory formula for compensation in non-participating provinces”. It is within this context that I wish to discuss the spending power. The Government of Manitoba believes that this Confe»… Read more First Ministers Constitutional Conference – The Spending Power Suggestion Of Priority Option Grants →
Click here to view the original document (PDF). The Premiers and Ministers attending Provincial Constitutional Conference from British Columbia, Alberta, and Sakatchewan met today to discuss the proposed Fedaral White Papar on Taxation”. It was agreed that while some provisions of the paper ware desirable, the overall impact of the document would be completely unacceptable to the three Western Provinces. The three Western Premiers welcomed the increased exemptions for those in the low income groups. However the tax inereases proposed to those in the middle income category, the measure that… Read more First Ministers Constitutional Conference — First Ministers’ Letter on the Proposed “Federal White Paper on Taxation” →