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{
"time": "2019-05-16 12:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Brigitte Sansoucy",
"fr": "Mme Brigitte Sansoucy"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5943704\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I apologize for interrupting you, Minister, but I would prefer to know when the sickness benefits will be increased.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5943705\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Still, I would like to take the time I have left to ask you a second question, about measuring poverty.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5943706\" data-originallang=\"fr\">In your strategy, you have chosen a measure that decreases the poverty rate for seniors from 14.2% to 4.9%. According to the economist Andrew Jackson, the low-income measure counted 828,000 poor seniors in 2016, while the market basket measure included only 284,000 for the same period.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5943707\" data-originallang=\"fr\">In addition, you said that 40,000 seniors\u2014I took careful note\u2014would be entitled to the guaranteed income supplement, but would not automatically receive it yet.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5943708\" data-originallang=\"fr\">You are therefore choosing a measure that, statistically speaking, reduces the number of poor seniors. However, 40,000 more seniors may be eligible for the guaranteed income supplement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5943709\" data-originallang=\"fr\">However, in Budget 2019, there is nothing about the needs of the most vulnerable, no substantial amount for social housing for refugees, no strategy for indigenous people, either urban or rural.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5943710\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Why are you playing with statistics to reduce the number of poor seniors in Canada? Why are those 40,000 seniors who are entitled to the guaranteed income supplement still not receiving it automatically?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5943704\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Je m'excuse de vous interrompre, monsieur le ministre, mais je voulais plut\u00f4t savoir \u00e0 quelle date les prestations de maladie seraient bonifi\u00e9es.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5943705\" data-originallang=\"fr\">J'aimerais quand m\u00eame prendre le temps qu'il me reste pour vous poser une deuxi\u00e8me question, concernant la mesure de la pauvret\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5943706\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Dans votre strat\u00e9gie, vous avez choisi une mesure de la pauvret\u00e9 qui fait passer le taux de pauvret\u00e9 chez les a\u00een\u00e9s de 14,2 \u00e0 4,9 %. Selon l'\u00e9conomiste Andrew Jackson, la mesure de faible revenu comptabilise 828 000 a\u00een\u00e9s pauvres en 2016, tandis que la mesure du panier de consommation n'en recense que 284 000 pour la m\u00eame p\u00e9riode.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5943707\" data-originallang=\"fr\">De plus, vous avez dit que 40 000 a\u00een\u00e9s \u2014 je l'ai bien not\u00e9 \u2014 auraient droit au Suppl\u00e9ment de revenu garanti, mais ne le recevaient pas encore automatiquement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5943708\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Vous choisissez donc une mesure qui, dans les statistiques, r\u00e9duit le nombre d'a\u00een\u00e9s pauvres et, par ailleurs, 40 000 a\u00een\u00e9s de plus pourraient avoir droit au Suppl\u00e9ment de revenu garanti.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5943709\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Or, dans le budget de 2019, il n'y a rien concernant les besoins des personnes les plus vuln\u00e9rables, aucun montant substantiel pour le logement social pour les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s, aucune strat\u00e9gie autochtone, urbaine ou rurale.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5943710\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Pour quelle raison jouez-vous avec les statistiques pour qu'il y ait moins d'a\u00een\u00e9s pauvres au Canada? Pourquoi ces 40 000 a\u00een\u00e9s qui ont droit au Suppl\u00e9ment de revenu garanti ne le re\u00e7oivent-ils toujours pas automatiquement?</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/human-resources/42-1/149/brigitte-sansoucy-2/",
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"source_id": "10639919",
"document_url": "/committees/human-resources/42-1/149/",
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