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{
    "time": "2021-05-18 12:00:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Toby Sanger",
        "fr": "M. Toby Sanger"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6757797\" data-originallang=\"en\"> That's why I went into a bit more detail in my statement. There are some really important negotiations taking place this year through the OECD and G20 on a fundamental reform of international corporate tax rules. The majority of the revenues lost are on the corporate side, and most of them go to larger corporations and foreign corporations. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6757798\" data-originallang=\"en\">If we're talking about increasing competitiveness and the strength of the Canadian economy and businesses, we really need to address this problem. It's not just the lost revenues. Canada, actually, has a very good system of allocating taxable income between provinces, according to real economic factors. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6757799\" data-originallang=\"en\">If we implemented some of those rules that are under discussion at the international level, and if Canada were a champion of that, then we could largely do away with the problem of losses through tax havens and international tax dodging in different ways, so that\u2014</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6757797\" data-originallang=\"en\"> C'est pourquoi j'ai fourni un peu plus de pr\u00e9cisions dans mon expos\u00e9. Des n\u00e9gociations tr\u00e8s importantes sont en cours cette ann\u00e9e dans le cadre de l'OCDE et du G20 sur une r\u00e9forme fondamentale des r\u00e8gles fiscales internationales pour les soci\u00e9t\u00e9s. La majeure partie des revenus perdus proviennent des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s, et la plupart d'entre elles vont \u00e0 de grandes soci\u00e9t\u00e9s et \u00e0 des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s \u00e9trang\u00e8res. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6757798\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si nous voulons accro\u00eetre la comp\u00e9titivit\u00e9 et renforcer l'\u00e9conomie et les entreprises canadiennes, nous devons vraiment nous attaquer \u00e0 ce probl\u00e8me. Il ne s'agit pas seulement de r\u00e9cup\u00e9rer les revenus perdus. En fait, le Canada a un tr\u00e8s bon syst\u00e8me de r\u00e9partition du revenu imposable entre les provinces, en fonction de facteurs \u00e9conomiques r\u00e9els. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6757799\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si nous mettions en oeuvre certaines de ces r\u00e8gles qui font l'objet de discussions \u00e0 l'\u00e9chelle internationale, et si le Canada en \u00e9tait le champion, alors nous pourrions en grande partie \u00e9liminer le probl\u00e8me des pertes attribuables aux paradis fiscaux et \u00e0 l'\u00e9vasion fiscale internationale de diff\u00e9rentes fa\u00e7ons, de sorte que...</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/finance/43-2/45/toby-sanger-4/",
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    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "11320207",
    "document_url": "/committees/finance/43-2/45/",
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}