Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2012-05-31 16:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Rob Rainer",
        "fr": "M. Rob Rainer"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2928703\" data-originallang=\"en\">That's correct. Senator Eggleton's and Senator Segal's report had a recommendation for an in-depth feasibility study of essentially expanding the system of basic income or guaranteed income in Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2928704\" data-originallang=\"en\">The second point is that the research is pretty solid in terms of investing in early childhood learning and education, and the return on that investment is in the area of nine to one. Children are our most vulnerable and also our most precious resource, and as the UNICEF report on child poverty has made clear this week, we are doing poorly as a country. So there's a lot more we could be doing in that area. I think the federal government has a profound role, not just through early childhood education but obviously through adult learning as well. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2928705\" data-originallang=\"en\">There's lots we could be doing there, and we are not having the kind of discussion and debate in this country on those kinds of issues that we should be having. Instead, I think we are getting sidelined by some lesser concerns, such as are wrapped up in Bill <a data-HoCid=\"5514128\" href=\"/bills/41-1/C-38/\" title=\"An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 29, 2012 and other measures\">C-38</a>, which is just an absolute hodgepodge of issues that we can't possibly do justice to.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2928703\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'est exact. Le rapport des s\u00e9nateurs Eggleton et Segal contenait une recommandation concernant une \u00e9tude de faisabilit\u00e9 en profondeur de l'expansion, essentiellement, du syst\u00e8me de revenu de base ou de revenu garanti au Canada. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2928704\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'autre chose, c'est que la recherche est assez solide en ce qui concerne l'investissement dans l'apprentissage et l'\u00e9ducation de la petite enfance, et le rendement du capital investi est d'environ neuf pour un. Les enfants constituent notre ressource la plus vuln\u00e9rable et aussi la plus pr\u00e9cieuse, et, comme l'a clairement d\u00e9montr\u00e9 cette semaine le rapport de l'UNICEF sur la pauvret\u00e9 infantile, les r\u00e9sultats de notre pays sont m\u00e9diocres. Nous pourrions en faire beaucoup plus \u00e0 ce chapitre. Je crois que le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral a un r\u00f4le profond \u00e0 jouer, en ce qui concerne non seulement l'\u00e9ducation de la petite enfance, mais aussi, de toute \u00e9vidence, l'apprentissage des adultes. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2928705\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous pourrions en faire beaucoup \u00e0 ce chapitre et nous n'avons pas les discussions et les d\u00e9bats au pays sur ces types d'enjeux que nous devrions avoir. Au lieu, je crois que nous sommes distraits par <a data-HoCid=\"5514128\" href=\"/bills/41-1/C-38/\" title=\"An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 29, 2012 and other measures\"></a>des pr\u00e9occupations moindres, comme celles qu'englobe le projet de loi C-38, qui constitue un salmigondis total d'enjeux qu'il serait impossible d'\u00e9tudier comme il se doit. </p>"
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    "url": "/committees/finance/41-1/67/rob-rainer-3/",
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