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OTTAWA - The Harper Conservatives say jobs and the economy will remain the key issues as Parliament resumes Monday.
Measures coming will include the second phase of the Tory budget plan aimed at further slashing government spending and changing pension plans for MPs and federal workers.
"It, of course, will put into place outstanding items from the economic action plan 2012 which remain to be implemented," said Government House Leader Peter Van Loan.
The legislation will include measures from the spring budget which didn't make it into Bill C-38, the controversial budget implementation bill that was passed in June.
He says the new bill is a key part of a fall agenda aimed at job creation and economic growth.
"The plan is working," he said. "Canada has posted the strongest job-creation record in the G7, with over 770,000 net new jobs created for Canadians families since the end of the economic downturn.
"Canadians expect their government to focus on maintaining Canada's record of relative strength."
Other legislation will deal with RCMP accountability and law-and-order issues, including a bill to make it easier to deport dangerous foreign criminals and one to double the amount which offenders must pay to victims in recompense.
The RCMP legislation will "ensure that the RCMP is fully accountable and transparent to Canadians," Van Loan said.
The Opposition is trying to set its own agenda, centred largely around helping people who've lost their jobs and consumers who feel they're being gouged at the gas pumps and by big corporations.
New Democrat consumer protection critic Glenn Thibeault says his party will continue its push for a gasoline ombudsman who can field consumer complaints about high fuel prices.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper set the stage last week for continued cuts in government spending when he announced a parliamentary committee tasked with finding deeper cuts to the public purse.
The committee is being headed by tight-fisted Treasury Board President Tony Clement.
The Tories appear to be riding high as they enter this stage of their majority mandate.
A Canadian Press Harris-Decima poll conducted within the two weeks prior to the start of the fall sitting suggests the Tories have opened up a seven-point lead over the NDP.
The survey puts Conservative support at 34 per cent, the NDP at 27, the Liberals at 24 and the Green party at seven.
Two-thousand Canadians were questioned for the poll earlier this month, which is considered accurate within plus or minus 2.2 percentage points, 19 times in 20.
© The Canadian Press, 2012
17 Sep, 2012
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