Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2009-03-10 12:50:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Maria Minna (Beaches\u2014East York, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1360015\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you, Madam Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1360016\" data-originallang=\"en\">First, I want to say that what most of you, in particular the Caledon Institute, have said are things that the Liberal women's caucus had in the pink books--a lot of the same major pieces in terms of child care, education, $5,000 for the child benefit, affordable housing, and so on. From my perspective, obviously, it affects women's income very much.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1360017\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to focus on a couple of areas, if I may. Mr. Battle, Ms. Torjman, you both mentioned two things. In the child benefit as currently structured, the $1,200 is not taxable. My understanding is that the government is receiving about $300 million of income tax on that, so that's not really worth the full $1,200. My suspicion is that the $300 million is coming from lower income, because it's taxed in the hands of the lower-income family. So that's a negative.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1360018\" data-originallang=\"en\">Just to be clear, you're suggesting that we would take the $1,200, which I agree with you on, add it to the child benefit, and take the child tax credits\u2014both the non-refundable and the other\u2014and add it to the child benefit, beefing that up to at least $5,000. Am I right?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1360019\" data-originallang=\"en\">Very quickly, please. I have a couple of other questions.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1360015\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci, madame la pr\u00e9sidente.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1360016\" data-originallang=\"en\">Premi\u00e8rement, je veux dire que ce que la plupart d'entre vous, en particulier le Caledon Institute, pr\u00e9conisez figure d\u00e9j\u00e0 dans le livre rose du caucus f\u00e9minin lib\u00e9ral \u2014 nombre des principales mesures sur le plan de la garde des enfants, de l'\u00e9ducation, les 5 000 $ de prestations pour enfants, le logement abordable, etc. \u00c0 mon point de vue, manifestement, cela influence grandement le revenu des femmes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1360017\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si vous le permettez, j'aimerais focaliser sur quelques aspects. Monsieur Battle, madame Torjman, vous avez tous deux mentionn\u00e9 deux choses. La prestation pour enfants telle que structur\u00e9e, soit les 1 200 $, n'est pas imposable. Je crois savoir que le gouvernement touche quelque 300 millions de dollars d'imp\u00f4t de revenu l\u00e0-dessus, et donc la prestation ne vaut pas enti\u00e8rement 1 200 $. Je soup\u00e7onne que les 300 millions de dollars proviennent des faibles revenus, car elle est tax\u00e9e aux mains de la famille \u00e0 faible revenu. C'est donc un \u00e9l\u00e9ment n\u00e9gatif.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1360018\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pour que les choses soient claires, vous sugg\u00e9rez de prendre les 1 200 $, ce avec quoi je suis d'accord, vous les ajouteriez \u00e0 la prestation pour enfants, et prendriez les cr\u00e9dits d'imp\u00f4t pour enfants \u2014 tant le cr\u00e9dit non remboursable que l'autre \u2014 et les ajouteriez \u00e0 la prestation pour enfants, pour porter celle-ci \u00e0 au moins 5 000 $. Ai-je raison?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1360019\" data-originallang=\"en\">Tr\u00e8s rapidement, s'il vous pla\u00eet. J'ai encore d'autres questions.</p>"
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    "url": "/committees/human-resources/40-2/9/maria-minna-1/",
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    "source_id": "2649084",
    "document_url": "/committees/human-resources/40-2/9/",
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