Bloc Quebecois

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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 ...

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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 ...

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