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{
"time": "2016-11-28 16:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Jennifer O'Connell (Pickering\u2014Uxbridge, Lib.)",
"fr": "Mme Jennifer O'Connell (Pickering\u2014Uxbridge, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4680119\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Thank you, Minister, for being here.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4680120\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to start off by clarifying something that my colleague mentioned with regard to the Canada child benefit, and keeping it cost neutral having been a campaign commitment.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4680121\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I have gone through the platform, and it's my understanding there was never a cost neutral promise. The promise we made, which was delivered on, was that we were going to stop sending cheques to millionaires, and we were going to redistribute it to those who needed it most, and it would be tax-free, unlike with the previous governments under which people who received this got taxed at the end of the year.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4680122\" data-originallang=\"en\">Do you want to perhaps clarify the commitment that was made?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4680119\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci de votre pr\u00e9sence au Comit\u00e9, monsieur le ministre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4680120\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais d'abord pr\u00e9ciser quelque chose que mon coll\u00e8gue a mentionn\u00e9 concernant l'Allocation canadienne pour enfants, et c'est que nous nous serions engag\u00e9s durant la campagne \u00e0 ce que cela n'engendre aucun co\u00fbt suppl\u00e9mentaire.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4680121\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'ai pass\u00e9 en revue le programme, et je constate que nous n'avons jamais fait une telle promesse. Nous avions par contre promis d'arr\u00eater d'envoyer des ch\u00e8ques aux millionnaires, et nous avons tenu cette promesse. Nous avions aussi promis de redistribuer cet argent \u00e0 ceux qui en avaient le plus besoin et de rendre ces montants non imposables, contrairement aux pr\u00e9c\u00e9dents gouvernements qui remettaient des prestations aux Canadiens qui \u00e9taient ensuite impos\u00e9s sur ce montant \u00e0 la fin de l'exercice.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4680122\" data-originallang=\"en\">Aimeriez-vous peut-\u00eatre pr\u00e9ciser l'engagement qui avait \u00e9t\u00e9 pris?</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/finance/42-1/62/jennifer-oconnell-1/",
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"document_url": "/committees/finance/42-1/62/",
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}