Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2007-05-10 13:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Colin Carrie",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"609092\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I will state, unequivocally, that the minister is bringing some sanity to the tax system. He is trying to change what the debate is about today. The debate today is about tax fairness. We are looking at the Liberals' idea of tax fairness versus the Conservative view of tax fairness.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"609093\" data-originallang=\"en\">What we are looking at is closing loopholes. The Liberals may want to change the channel a little, but they cannot hide from their record. Let us look at their record. Perhaps the Liberal member may know of a Liberal finance minister in the past who may have closed tax loopholes for ordinary Canadians, but perhaps he knows of a Liberal finance minister who did not close loopholes for his own company.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"609094\" data-originallang=\"en\">Maybe he knows of a former Liberal finance minister who perhaps had a Canadian company and fired all those employees. Then moved his company offshore. Why? Perhaps it might have been to partake in some loopholes that were left open by the Liberal government of the time.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"609095\" data-originallang=\"en\">This government is committed to fairness. We are committed to ensuring that everyone pays their fair share, unlike the previous Liberal government, which for its friends it had loopholes, but made average Canadians pay more because of that.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"609092\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je peux affirmer sans \u00e9quivoque que le ministre fait en sorte que le r\u00e9gime fiscal soit sens\u00e9. Il s'efforce d'apporter des changements \u00e0 ce sur quoi porte le d\u00e9bat aujourd'hui, \u00e0 savoir l'\u00e9quit\u00e9 fiscale. On examine la conception lib\u00e9rale de l'\u00e9quit\u00e9 fiscale par rapport \u00e0 la conception conservatrice de l'\u00e9quit\u00e9 fiscale.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"609093\" data-originallang=\"en\">On cherche \u00e0 \u00e9liminer les \u00e9chappatoires. Les lib\u00e9raux ont beau vouloir faire diversion, ils ne peuvent \u00e9chapper \u00e0 leur feuille de route. Examinons-la, cette feuille de route. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 lib\u00e9ral a peut-\u00eatre d\u00e9j\u00e0 entendu parler d'un ancien ministre lib\u00e9ral des Finances qui a \u00e9limin\u00e9 des \u00e9chappatoires fiscales dont b\u00e9n\u00e9ficiaient des Canadiens ordinaires, mais pas celles dont b\u00e9n\u00e9ficiait sa propre entreprise.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"609094\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il a peut-\u00eatre entendu parler d'un ancien ministre lib\u00e9ral des Finances qui \u00e9tait chef d'une entreprise dont il a d\u00e9m\u00e9nag\u00e9 le si\u00e8ge social \u00e0 l'\u00e9tranger apr\u00e8s en avoir cong\u00e9di\u00e9s les employ\u00e9s. Pourquoi? Peut-\u00eatre \u00e9tait-ce pour profiter de certaines des \u00e9chappatoires que le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral de l'\u00e9poque n'avait pas \u00e9limin\u00e9es.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"609095\" data-originallang=\"en\">Notre gouvernement tient \u00e0 l'\u00e9quit\u00e9. Nous avons \u00e0 coeur de veiller \u00e0 ce que tout le monde paie sa juste part, contrairement au gouvernement lib\u00e9ral pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent, qui maintenait des \u00e9chappatoires pour ses petits amis, mais le faisait payer cher aux Canadiens moyens.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2007/5/10/colin-carrie-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/colin-carrie/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1403/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2074609",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Business of Supply",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Opposition Motion--Finance",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2007/5/10/",
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}