Saving for post-secondary education is critical in the 21st century. Allowing families to deduct RESP contributions to obtain an income tax credit will affect the thousands of families who are trying to save money for soaring post-secondary education costs through RESPs,” said Dan McTeague, the bill’s sponsor.

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This paper has been prepared with the assistance of several of the presenters at the meeting and it attempts to capture all of the issues that were raised both by the presenters and Members present. The paper offers suggested options to resolve the issues identified. While most involve legislative action, some engage policy priorities and are identified as such.

If Canada could boast to the world about its anti-child-porn efforts the same way it brags about hockey, police here might have nothing to complain about but the perverts themselves. The truth is, on an international level, Canada isn’t regarded as a country truly devoted to the protection of its children, child advocates, law agencies and politicians say.

I wrote to you when the Sharpe case was before the Supreme Court of Canada. I asked that the federal government intervene in this matter and consider invoking the notwithstanding clause of the Charter to override legal decisions that do not recognize nor combat child pornography. Certainly, the restriction of individual freedoms guaranteed under the Charter is justifiable when those limitations protect the most vulnerable of Canadian society – its children.