Further integration of external costs and fair and balanced pricing among the modes should contribute to control transport growth overall and re-balance the modal shift.

Therefore, we suggest the following priorities for the federal fiscal dividend: do not reduce taxes, but rather create greater tax fairness; use the tax system to redistribute incomes with annual targets for the reduction and eventual elimination of poverty—even by the most rigid definition of absolute poverty there are over 1.5 million people in Canada with incomes so low that they are in imminent danger to their physical health—maintain low interest rates as this is the best long-term mechanism for ensured continued economic growth, resulting in lower levels ...[+++] of unemployment; restore federal transfer payments to the provinces and territories within a set of national standards, by extending Canada Health Act standards to the areas of social services and post-secondary education; and finally, acknowledge that debt is an essential form of investment and that public debt provides a safe haven for low-risk private investment.

Ms. Albina Guarnieri: Mr. Neville, I would ask you to consider whether consumers would benefit as a group from a government that draws a close connection between revenues and costs for a particular service and determines whether the service is worth providing based on the willingness of consumers to pay for it.

Article 38 of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 establishes Community support for farmers to compensate for costs incurred and income foregone as a result of disadvantages in the areas concerned related to the implementation of Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conservation of wild birds , Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora and Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy