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LAUNCH OF THREE NEW CHRYSLER MODELS IN BRAMPTON:

MORE JOBS OPPORTUNITIES FOR BRAMPTON RESIDENTS Mr. Malhi attended the official launch of all new 2011 Chrysler 300, Dodge

Charger and Dodge Challenger models that as of this year will be produced at the

Assembly Plant in Brampton.

In a brief conversation with the President and CEO of Chrysler Group, Sergio

Marchionne, Mr. Malhi congratulated him on his success in turning around

Chrysler and launching three new models. At the launch, Mr. Malhi also met with

the President and CEO of Chrysler Canada, Reid Bigland.

But most importantly, Mr. Malhi used this opportunity to talk to ‘rank and file’

workers at the plant. He acknowledge their role in moving the Brampton plant

further and said that he is very proud of all Chrysler workers. At the end, he

encouraged them to contact him if they have any issues with the federal government.

In his conversation with the workers, Mr. Malhi also met with Leon Rideout,

President of Local 1285 branch of Canadian Auto-Workers’ Union.

Mr. Malhi concluded that Chrysler plant creates many jobs for Brampton.

Mr. Malhi with Chrysler Canada President, Reid Bigland

Your Member of Parliament

for

Bramalea-Gore-Malton

Hon. Gurbax Singh Malhi Serving Community Since 1993

Parliamentary Report Winter 2011

A Message from Your MP…

Dear Residents,

As we are recovering from the worst recession ever, we might face

challenges that can throw us off our focus. For me and for the Liberal

Party of Canada (LPC) the economy and the well-being of Canadians

continue to be the most important priorities. I had been working and

will continue working to keep this government accountable to your

needs.

High jobless rate, especially among our youth, a record-breaking

deficit of $56 billion and small businesses that do not benefit from the

Conservative corporate tax cut, which favours only 5% of the largest

Canadian corporations must remind us all that the Conservative Party

is failing Canadians when it comes to the economy and social policy.

On the contrary, the Liberal Party of Canada proposes Canadians a

new vision for all of us that focuses on priorities of Canadian families

with investments in initiatives designed to help them meet their

needs. LPC will raise the standard of living and purchasing power of

Canadians by focusing on the following priorities: learning, health

care, pensions and jobs. To implement these priorities, we have

developed: 1) Family Care Plan, 2) Pension Reform Plan, 3) Pan-

Canadian Learning Strategy, 4) National Food Policy, 5) Rural

Internet Connection Plan, 6) Global Networks Strategy and 7)

Environment & Clean Energy Plan. You can read more about these

policies on page 3 of this report.

I continue to hold meetings for the constituents every Friday and

attend community events. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with

me if you have any issues with the Federal government. I always

reply to all letters and messages.

I am approachable and accessible; for that reason I regularly update

my website, facebook page and tweet on twitter. Please join the

―conversation‖ by following me on the website, facebook and twiter

accounts. Lastly, I want to wish you all the best and look forward to

seeing you soon!

Gurbax Singh Malhi

OPENING OF THE NEW GYM IN BRAMALEA-GORE-MALTON

Mr. Malhi attended a cheerful ceremony dedicated to the opening of a new gymnasium facility on the premises of the

best private elementary school in Brampton – Tall Pines School. The school’s gymnasium was named in memoriam of

Glenn Flett and Roger Peddle, two inspirational individuals and athletes, who were personally connected to the Tall

Pines School and its Principal Elaine Flett. In addressing students and staff, Mr. Malhi stated that education is the most

cherished gift a child can get, and which will pay off later on in life. ―Successful career and employment depends of

good education‖ he added later on. Mr. Malhi concluded his remarks by congratulating Tall Pines School, Principal

Flett and staff with this expansion, and presented a special certificate to Elaine Flett.

Mr. Malhi with Principle Elaine Flett.

Mr. Malhi with CAW President Ken Lewanza and

Brampton Mayor Susan Fennell

For the first time in twelve years, Canadians are more in debt than Americans. The average Canadian carries debt equivalent to one-and-a half times their after-tax income.

Debt as a Share of Personal Disposable Income in Canada

For five years, Conservatives have had a revolving door of five different Environment ministers– none of whom have yet produced a single plan to target climate change. Between 2006 and 2010, they stalled critical emissions regulations from taking effect, lagging far behind the U.S. in emissions targets.

High quality, full-time jobs have been replaced by part-time alternatives. Unemployment in Canada is 25% higher today than it was five years ago. That’s 280,000 more unemployed Canadians today Youth unemployment is almost twice as high as the national unemployment rate.

Lost Full-Time Jobs since

Average undergraduate university tuition has risen by over 20% in the past 5 years,

with no comparable increase in federal funding or federal

student aid. 16 % of low income students now plan to

delay additional studies because of the level of debt they have.

Rising Costs of University Tuition According to Statistics Canada, fully 25% more seniors are struggling to live on low incomes since Harper came to power.

In just 5 years, Canada’s $13 billion budgetary surplus turned into a $56 billion

deficit – the largest in Canadian history. Under Harper, annual government program

spending increased by $75 billion. Canadians may be tightening their belts,

but Harper isn’t – spending in the PMO’s increased by over 30% in the past 3 years.

Federal Debt per Canadian

2008 Conservative Platform

Reducing Taxes on Diesel Fuels.

Government Action: Broken

Restricting Unfair Text Messaging Charges.


Fully index the $100 per month Universal

Child Care Benefit to inflation. Government

Action: Broken

Reduce the immigration processing backlog.

Government Action: Broken The immigration

processing backlog has increased by 145,000

Create a new refundable tax of up to $500

for children who participate in eligible arts or

cultural activities. Government Action:

Broken

Enhance the Children's Fitness Tax Credit by

making it refundable. Government Action:

Broken

Reforming or Abolishing the Senate.

Government Action: Broken. Harper

appointed 38 Conservative Senators

Ensure that appointees to federal agencies

and Crown corporations reflect the diversity of Canada in language, gender,

ethnicity and age. Government Action: Broken

Implement our Turning the Corner action plan

to reduce Canada's greenhouse gas emissions

by 20 per cent of 2006 levels by 2020


Replace the automatic release of prisoners

after serving two-thirds of their sentence with

earned parole for behaviour and

rehabilitation in prison

Government Action: Broken The legislation

was killed by prorogation and still hasn’t

been implemented.

Create agency to promote Canada’s

democratic values on the world stage.

Government Action: Broken, agency is was

never created.

Abolish conditional sentences and introduce

mandatory prison sentences for impaired

driving causing bodily harm or death


For the full list of 145 broken promises, visit

http://bit.ly/fPXWRB

Harper’s Broken Promises

Stephen Harper’s legacy is one of broken promises to Canadians. He will promise whatever it takes to be elected, and once elected he will say anything to hold onto power. Promising action but never delivering, muzzling critics, stifling information, choosing ideology over fact and ignoring the voices of Canadians – THIS is what the Harper government has delivered to Canadians...

67 Election Spending Fraud Public prosecutor has alleged that the

Conservatives have committed not just one,

two or three, but 67 election spending fraud.

See facts debunking the electoral scandal:

Four members of Stephen Harper’s inner

circle face potential jail time after being

charged with electoral fraud as part of an

alleged $1.2-million scam to exceed national

campaign spending limits.

The federal court never ruled in favour of the

Conservative Party’s position on this specific

issue. The court decided that the inflated

elections rebates should be investigated by

the Elections Commissioner, and that charges

could follow. Charges were recommended by

the Elections Commissioner.

Elections Canada did not file these charges.

The Director of Public Prosecutions laid

charges based on evidence provided by the

Elections Commissioner.

While other parties transferred funds, they

never linked them like the Conservatives did

in order to skirt national spending limits.

Local campaigns can only claim advertising

expenses over funds that they control, but

they had no control over how the funds

transferred to them – and then right back to

the Conservative campaign – were spent. 67

Conservative campaigns did not pay the

national party based on value received to

their local campaign, but rather on how much

room they had left in their spending limits.

Unlike the other parties, the Conservative

national campaign immediately transferred

equivalent funds in and out of local

campaigns. They required each local

campaign to fill out a bank transfer to the

national party in advance, so that when the

national party wired funds to each local

campaign, they could immediately transfer

funds back to the national party.

The Conservatives did not follow the rules in

the Election Canada’s Handbook. They are

being held accountable to the laws as they

existed in 2006 and that applied to every

other party as well.

FIVE YEARS OF HARPER 2 0 0 6 - 2 0 1 1

A R E Y O U B E T T E R O F F ?

THERE IS A BETTER WAY

The Liberal Party’s plan for a progressive, compassionate and responsible

Canada

● A Family Care Plan to enhance care for our parents,

grandparents and sick loved ones, and to help reduce the pressure on hundreds of thousands of struggling families.

● A pension reform plan to protect the pension savings

of Canadians whose companies have gone bankrupt, and a voluntary Supplementary Canada Pension Plan to help more Canadians use our trusted national pension plan to save for their retirement.

● A pan-Canadian learning strategy spanning early

childhood development and care, aboriginal education, workforce literacy, language training for New Canadians, and access to higher education and training to build the best-educated, most highly-skilled workforce in the world.

● An Environment and Clean Energy Plan to create

jobs by investing in renewable energy production, promoting energy efficiency, and helping companies to develop and manufacture new clean energy products and materials.

● A National Food Policy to promote healthy living, safe

food, sustainable farm incomes, environmental farmland stewardship and international leadership.

● The Rural Canada Matters strategy to boost rural

communities with better access to broadband internet, doctors and nurses, emergency services, and postal services.

● A balanced and credible fiscal approach: Deficit reduction by committing to a deficit to GDP target of 1% in first two years Fiscal prudence by restoring a reserve as a buffer to achieve targets; Spending restraint by finding targeted, sustainable savings in partnership with the public service Cancelling Harper’s additional corporate tax breaks and restoring rates to 2010 levels. Canada already has the second lowest corporate tax rates in the G7 and 25% lower than the U.S. Canadian families deserve a break, not the largest corporations.

● A Global Networks Strategy to restore Canadian

leadership in the world through: Global Network Agreements with China and India to

collaborate in research and education, energy and sustainability, transportation, food security, health, immigration, culture and tourism; and

A rebalancing of Canada’s foreign policy objectives along the 3 D’s: development, defence and diplomacy.

Citizenship: Expedite procedure to process

citizenship application and speed up recovery

of lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed cards.

Culture: Provide steady funding for CBC/

Radio-Canada by cancelling cuts to the

international promotion of Canadian culture

and doubling funding to the Canada Council for

the Arts.

Financial waste: Put an end to current wasteful

government spending on self-advertising,

consultants, F-35s and on PMO’s budget.

Foreign credentials: Allocate funds for the

development of efficient and transparent

foreign credential recognition in partnership

with Canada’s provinces and territories.

Language training and settlement: Improve

language instruction programs for immigrants

to help break down language barriers.

Mandatory long-form census – Restore Long-

form census form that the Conservatives

scrapped.

Nuclear Free Peel: In 2006, Hon. Gurbax

Malhi ensured that Mississauga Metals and

Alloys’s application for a ―Low Level

Radioactive Waste‖ Incinerator Licence was

not approved. He lobbied the federal

government and successfully opposed the

importing of radioactive waste into Brampton

from other communities. It was important that

the riding remain nuclear free for the children,

the seniors and the families who live there.

Passport Office in Brampton: Conservative

Government closed the Brampton Passport

Canada office. Hon. Gurbax Malhi worked hard

and ensured that a new Passport Canada office

was re-opened in Brampton on January 25,

2005 (location: 40 Gillingham Drive).

Post-Secondary Education - Canada

Millennium Scholarship Foundation: $2.5

billion allocated by Liberal Party of Canada in

1998. For 10 years, the foundation distributed

$325 million in the form of bursaries and

scholarships each year throughout Canada in

support of post-secondary education. As well,

the foundation conducted research into post-

secondary access, via the Millennium Research

Program. The Conservatives did not renew the

funding set-up.

PR card: Expedite procedure for existing

permanent residents to renew or replace their

PR cards.

Saving the Gun Registry: Provide security on

the streets by further entrenching Gun Registry

that police officers and victims of gun violence

prefer.

Skilled workers: Expedite procedure process

for immigration applications of skilled workers.

Sponsorship: Improve on the Conservative

record by lowering high refusal rates for family

sponsorship; 69 months process for sponsoring

parent from India (39 months for the

assessment of the sponsor and 30 months for

the assessment of the person being sponsored)

and 7 months process for sponsoring spouse

from India (37 days for the assessment of the

sponsor and 6 months for the assessment of the

person being sponsored)

Women: Focus on women in the economy,

equal pay for work of equal value, women’s

health and safety, and more female

representation in government

Youth Unemployment: The Conservative

government fails to make youth a priority, even

when the unemployment rate among young

Canadians is 13.6%, more than double the

national average. The government can create

jobs by giving employers greater incentives to

hire our country’s future workforce. The

previous Liberal government launched the

program for the first time as the Summer

Career Placement Program; it provides students

with solid work experience and allows

employers who ordinarily would not be able to

hire on additional employees to compete with

larger companies for the services of talented

young students. $322,000 in funding was

secured for Bramalea-Gore-Malton for the

Canada Summer Jobs 2010 program.

Restore Funding: Restore funding of $44

million in Ontario settlement programs (mainly

in the GTA) that Conservatives have cut after

reneging on promised investments in settlement

services in Ontario under the Canada-Ontario

Immigration Agreement, negotiated by the

Liberal government.

The Liberal Party of Canada will also work hard

to improve or expedite the following:

Speaking in the House of Commons on the Economy Mr. Speaker, our economy is underperforming as the unemployment rate for the month of January in Ontario

increased to 14.4% among the young adults. Despite giving $6 billion to big corporations, the government cannot create

jobs and is killing them by increasing tax burdens in the form of EI payroll taxes on all small businesses. In fact, its $6

billion tax cut ignores 95% of the two million active businesses in Canada.

People in the region of Peel feel that the government is ignoring them too. The unemployment is high in this

region but the government does nothing. Six billion dollars in tax cuts will not result in $6 billion worth of economic

growth and jobs. Affordable housing and jobs in the region of Peel are much more needed than the corporate tax cut.

The government also needs to take concrete steps to create jobs for youth and give incentives to small businesses

so that they can create more jobs for the unemployed families that are starving, under stress and are worrying about their

future.

Question to the Minister on Taxation and Jobs Mr. Speaker, despite racking up the largest deficit in Canadian history, the government has done little to help the region of Peel. At Christmastime, I

saw, first-hand, my constituents lining up at food banks, while their EI was expiring.

Why did the government increase taxes on every small business in Peel and hurt their efforts to create jobs for the unemployed?

Question to the Minister on Families’ Priorities Mr. Speaker, the government cut $6 billion in taxes for the richest and largest corporations, while it hiked payroll taxes for every small business in the

country. It has cut millennium scholarships for students and has wasted billions of dollars on mega-prisons. It has cut off spending on affordable

housing, but have billions to spend on fighter jets.

Why is this government ignoring the real needs of families?

Speaking in the House of Commons on Fraudulent Marriages Mr. Speaker, this government must establish stronger measures to protect Canadians against people who use a fraudulent marriage as a safe

immigration passport to our country.

I have repeatedly asked the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism to take action in cases when fraud was perpetrated against

the Canadian immigration system, including the ones affecting many victims in my constituency.

To prevent future cases in which marriages with Canadian citizens are entered into for the purposes of obtaining permanent residence status, I call

upon the government to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to strengthen the conditional immigration marriage-based system.

Furthermore, the government should establish a period of three to five years of probation for marriage-based immigrants, including a requirement

that couples have been living together and intend to continue living together in the future.

Moreover, the government should restrict the finalization of each citizenship application until the probation period is complete and there has been

no criminal activity or offences under the immigration act.

I strongly urge the government to take concrete action to stop marriage fraud and protect its victims.

CHRISTMAS DRIVE FOR KNIGHTS TABLE Mr. Malhi just before the Christmas Eve visited and donated multiple bags filled with dry food

to Knights Table, a local food bank. Knights Table is in partnership with Mississauga Fruit

Tree Community Organization – a volunteer and not-for-profit organization that runs its

operations from Malton, Mississauga. Mr. Malhi with pleasure made this contribution to the

Brampton community. With respect and humility to the program participants and staff, Mr.

Malhi delivered his dry food donation to the Executive Director of Knights Table Annie

Bynoe. He also met with staff of Knights Table. Liberal Party of Canada has created

Canada’s first ever National Food Policy that includes a $40-million Healthy Start program to

help 250,000 low-income children access healthy foods.

Mr. Malhi with volunteers at Knights Table

Hon. Gurbax Singh Malhi, M.P.

Serving Community Since 1993

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Holds meetings with constituents every Friday to address

individual needs and concerns

Helps with federal government issues such as EI, Old Age

Security, Student Loans, CPP, CPP Disability Benefits,

CRA, Canada Post and Immigration

Attends over 500 community events every year

Listens to your concerns and answers your questions

Responds to your letters, phone calls and e-mails quickly

Consults and meets with numerous groups, community lead-

ers and individuals every week

Get results!

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