Vote No. 64

That the motion be amended by deleting all the words after the word “That” and substituting the following:

“this House not approve the budgetary policy of the government as it:

(a) fails to take any meaningful action to create jobs while 1.3 million Canadians are unemployed;

(b) refuses to work cooperatively with the provinces on federal transfers, skills training, and infrastructure funding;

(c) does nothing to cap ATM fees, crack down on payday lenders or rein in credit card rates;

(d) does not introduce a youth hiring and training tax credit to combat soaring youth unemployment;

(e) threatens to unilaterally impose the Canada Job Grant over the unanimous objection of the provinces;

(f) pushes ahead with office closures and cuts to veterans’ services;

(g) repeats previous governments’ misuse of EI funds; and

(h) slashes billions of dollars from the health care plans of Canadian public service retirees.”.