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Question No. 92 Ms. Jean Crowder: With regards to band council elections: (a) for each calendar year since the Corbière Decision came into effect, how many bands have had an election and what were the costs of those elections; (b) what plans does the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development have to request an extension of the financial authority from the Treasury Board to continue funding these additional costs for band elections; (c) what is the average cost of a band council election relative to the overall Band Support Funding for First Nations; (d) how many elections have been disputed since 1999 and what were the costs for each of those elections; (e) for those disputed elections, what was the percentage cost of the elec ...[+++]tion as a portion of Band Support Funding and as a portion of own source revenue for the First Nation involved; (f) what studies or audits have been conducted to see how much of the annual two percent funding cap on Indian and Northern Affairs Canada program spending since 1995 has gone to pay for the increased costs of band council elections; (g) how much would Band Support Funding need to increase to cover the increased costs of the Corbière Decision without impacting other program spending; (h) how will the government live up to its fiduciary responsibility for First Nations if the two percent spending cap remains in place; and (i) how will the Honour of the Crown be protected in this matter?

In two cases, namely Germany and Spain, the decrease of 20% and 2.4% respectively in public spending in relation to the 1989-1993 period does not call into question the principle of additionality in view of the unusual level of public structural spending in the previous programming period.

Pursuant to this Article, each Member State must maintain for each Objective, in the whole of the territory concerned, its public structural or comparable expenditure with the exception of the Structural Funds contribution and in real terms, at least at the same average level as in the previous programming period, taking into account the macroeconomic circumstances in which the funding takes place, as well as a number of specific economic circumstances, namely privatisations, an unusual level of public structural spending in the previous pro ...[+++]gramming period and business cycles in the national economy.

A study by the C.D. Howe Institute has shown that, while spending for established programs financing remained stable between 1988 and 1992, other federal program spending rose by 25.5 per cent. In other words, the federal government told the provinces they should tighten their belts while it went on spending freely and increasing its deficit.

Because I am a human resources development critic for Reform, I would like to spend the minutes I have to discuss the budget implementation act and talk about how social program spending is handled in this budget (1350 ) First, this budget is rather shockingly vague about how social programs, particularly very important social programs, are going to be handled by this government.

Naturally, some social programs have to be maintained, but the problem is this: at this rate, certain cuts have been so poorly targeted that, if you tie program spending to debt charges and the debt continues to grow at the same rate, there will come a time, five or six years down the road, when program spending cuts to the tune of $75 billion will become necessary to match debt charges of $75 billion.