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{
"time": "2007-04-16 15:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Paul Szabo (Mississauga South, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"549343\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I was a little taken aback by the member's suggestion that paying down debt was not a priority. Even the member would understand that not paying down debt and transferring $3 billion to the provinces would represent an amount of money for which there would be no strings, no accountability and would in fact be a one time distribution because it is an absolute amount of money.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"549344\" data-originallang=\"en\">In the alternative, paying down the national debt in an orderly fashion saves interest. That interest is the real fiscal dividend to Canadians. It is ongoing savings year after year. It is there to support, for instance, the Canada health and social transfer, which goes for the benefit of all Canadians through the provincial transfers and has accountability provisions built into it.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"549345\" data-originallang=\"en\">Would the member like to reconsider his view of paying down debt as opposed to not paying down debt and simply transferring amounts for which there would be no accountability possibilities for the Government of Canada?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"549343\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'ai \u00e9t\u00e9 renvers\u00e9 d'entendre le d\u00e9put\u00e9 dire que le remboursement de la dette n'\u00e9tait pas une priorit\u00e9. M\u00eame le d\u00e9put\u00e9 devrait comprendre que le fait de verser 3 milliards de dollars aux provinces, au lieu d'affecter cette somme au remboursement de la dette, ne serait assorti d'aucune condition ni d'aucune obligation de reddition de comptes et qu'il s'agit d'un transfert unique, d'un montant \u00e9norme.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"549344\" data-originallang=\"en\">En revanche, le fait de rembourser la dette nationale de fa\u00e7on ordonn\u00e9e permet d'\u00e9conomiser au chapitre des int\u00e9r\u00eats. Les \u00e9conomies ainsi r\u00e9alis\u00e9es constituent le v\u00e9ritable dividende pour les Canadiens. R\u00e9alis\u00e9es sur une base continue, ann\u00e9e apr\u00e8s ann\u00e9e, ces \u00e9conomies aident \u00e0 financer, par exemple, le Transfert canadien en mati\u00e8re de programmes sociaux et de sant\u00e9, un transfert aux provinces assorti d'une obligation de rendre des comptes qui b\u00e9n\u00e9ficie \u00e0 tous les Canadiens. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"549345\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 va-t-il revoir sa position en ce qui concerne le remboursement de la dette par rapport au non-remboursement de la dette et au transfert de montants auquel n'est rattach\u00e9e aucune obligation de rendre des comptes au gouvernement du Canada?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/4/16/paul-szabo-5/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/paul-szabo/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3198/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2002869",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Budget Implementation Act, 2007",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/4/16/",
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}
}