Joe Volpe
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"Giuseppe Joseph "Joe" Volpe", Queen's Privy Council for Canada/PC, is a Canada/Canadian politician. He is a former Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 until the 2011, holding two senior positions in Prime Minister of Canada/Prime Minister Paul Martin's Canadian Cabinet/Cabinet from 2003 to 2006, and serving as transportation critic when his party became the Official Opposition. In 2006, he was an unsuccessful Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, 2006/candidate for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada/Liberal Party. In the 2011 federal election, Volpe lost his seat to Joe Oliver (politician)/Joe Oliver.

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Any fee that the county implements, it's passed onto the home buyer. When you tack on fees or you tack on taxes, all that does is raise the price of affordable housing.

I wanted to engage the leaders of the community in helping me shape an immigration plan for all of Canada. And in particular for northern Ontario and, even more specifically, that would suit Sault Ste. Marie's interests.

It doesn't matter if it's Edmonton or Calgary, small towns like Trail, (B.C.), or smaller major cities like Fredericton. The issue is the same: 'We want more immigration'.

Each and every one of us has to work in putting forward a plan that makes Canada a choice destination for all potential migrants.

Both business and labour, and government officials are starting to say: 'We need to change the way the department operates'.

We are producing more jobs than the labor market has workers for ... we're desperate for immigration.

It's his own initiative and I'm sure he'll do the right thing.

The individuals have an opportunity to develop what they have, ... Whether it comes through better ferry service or not, it's a business decision that they'll make.

A dozen years ago, people would not have had the glowing representations that they currently offer for China ? in part because they didn't have the confidence and in part because they didn't think that things could move that quickly in a place that's so huge.