Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2006-10-23 09:55:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Diane Ablonczy (Calgary\u2014Nose Hill, CPC)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"341341\" data-originallang=\"en\">I foresee some interesting talk on the bus. We really do appreciate being here and experiencing your fine Newfoundland and Labrador hospitality. Even though it is raining outside, it's beautiful country, and we're really learning a lot just being here, especially talking to you.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"341342\" data-originallang=\"en\">I do want to correct my friend Mr. McCallum. I find that's happening more than it should. I think it's important to put on the record that tax reductions are not crowding everything else out. In fact, program spending increased in the last budget. There's lots of money for everything. And we know that, especially for low-income Canadians, tax reductions, especially GST cuts, are very helpful because of course many pay no other tax, so the GST reduction is the only reduction we can give them. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"341343\" data-originallang=\"en\">There are also no cuts to the delivery of literacy. The reductions are made in things like round tables and other tangential activities that do not directly affect the delivery of service. Please be assured that some of the myths around these reductions.... The reductions are actually designed to give more programs to people who need them, and maybe there is a little less activity for people who just want to talk about the delivery of literacy.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"341344\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to get to the airports first. For some reason, airports are on our minds. I don't know if you know the story, but it was quite a challenge getting here, and that has been interesting.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"341345\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Everywhere we've gone, though, we have heard concerns about airport rents and the fact that people feel that it is basically a tax, because the cost of the infrastructure, the land, has long been met, and now it's just a revenue stream. There has been tremendous concern about that. I'd be more concerned in this part of the country, where this is even more of a lifeline.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"341346\" data-originallang=\"en\">There has been some talk from some people about the federal government simply transferring land to an airport authority and letting the airport services regulation left locally. Is that something that you've been looking at, or are you happy to have the status quo, with the reduction in the GST, in airport rent\u2014[<em>Technical difficulty--Editor</em>] </p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"341341\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous aurons des discussions int\u00e9ressantes dans l'autobus. Nous sommes tr\u00e8s heureux d'\u00eatre ici et de profiter de la g\u00e9n\u00e9reuse hospitalit\u00e9 de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador. M\u00eame s'il pleut dehors, le paysage est magnifique, et nous apprenons beaucoup, en particulier gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 nos discussions avec vous. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"341342\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je veux corriger mon ami, M. McCallum. Cela se produit trop souvent. Je crois qu'il est important d'indiquer pour m\u00e9moire que les r\u00e9ductions d'imp\u00f4t ne se r\u00e9percutent pas sur tout. De fait, les d\u00e9penses de programme ont augment\u00e9 dans le dernier budget. Il y a beaucoup d'argent pour tout ce que nous voulons faire, et nous savons en particulier que pour les Canadiens \u00e0 faible revenu les r\u00e9ductions d'imp\u00f4t, surtout la TPS, sont tr\u00e8s utiles, parce qu'\u00e9videmment nombre de ces personnes ne paient aucun autre imp\u00f4t. Les r\u00e9ductions de TPS sont donc les seules que nous pouvons leur accorder. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"341343\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le programme d'alphab\u00e9tisation n'a pas fait l'objet de compressions. Les r\u00e9ductions touchent des \u00e9l\u00e9ments comme les tables rondes et d'autres activit\u00e9s connexes qui ne sont pas directement li\u00e9es \u00e0 la prestation des services. Soyez certains qu'une partie des mythes qui entourent ces compressions... Les r\u00e9ductions sont en fait con\u00e7ues pour offrir plus de programmes \u00e0 ceux qui en ont besoin, et l'activit\u00e9 est peut-\u00eatre un peu r\u00e9duite pour les personnes qui veulent simplement parler de l'ex\u00e9cution du programme d'alphab\u00e9tisation. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"341344\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je veux d'abord parler des a\u00e9roports. Pour une raison quelconque, la question des a\u00e9roports nous pr\u00e9occupe. Vous l'ignorez peut-\u00eatre, mais nous avons eu de la difficult\u00e9 \u00e0 arriver jusqu'ici. L'exp\u00e9rience n'\u00e9tait pas sans int\u00e9r\u00eat. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"341345\" data-originallang=\"en\">Partout o\u00f9 nous sommes pass\u00e9s, toutefois, on nous a fait part de pr\u00e9occupations concernant les loyers des a\u00e9roports et le fait que les gens y voient essentiellement un taxe, parce que l'infrastructure, la terre, est depuis longtemps pay\u00e9e. Ce loyer ne serait plus maintenant qu'une source de revenus. Il y a beaucoup d'inqui\u00e9tude \u00e0 ce sujet. Je serais encore plus inqui\u00e8te ici, dans cette r\u00e9gion o\u00f9 le transport a\u00e9rien est une n\u00e9cessit\u00e9. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"341346\" data-originallang=\"en\">Certains pensent que le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral pourrait simplement transf\u00e9rer les terres \u00e0 l'autorit\u00e9 a\u00e9roportuaire et laisser aux pouvoirs locaux le soin de r\u00e9glementer les services des a\u00e9roports. Avez-vous envisag\u00e9 cela ou \u00eates-vous satisfait du statu quo, compte tenu de la r\u00e9duction de la TPS, en ce qui concerne les loyers des a\u00e9roports... [<em>Note de la r\u00e9daction: DIfficult\u00e9s techniques</em>]</p>"
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