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{
"time": "2007-05-10 17:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. John Cannis (Scarborough Centre, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"609793\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, like a large-mouthed bass, the member took my bait, because what the member for <a data-HoCid=\"78817\" href=\"/politicians/rick-dykstra/\" title=\"Rick Dykstra\">St. Catharines</a> said when asking me a question before was half of the sentence. It is in the record where he said that the Liberals promised in the red book to scrap the GST, period.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"609794\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to thank him because it is the first time since the 1993 election that a member from that party finally completed the sentence as it is on record, in the newspapers, in the media and in the red book. He clearly stated that the Liberals would replace the GST with an equally revenue generating tax. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"609795\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I want to ask the member for <a data-HoCid=\"78817\" href=\"/politicians/rick-dykstra/\" title=\"Rick Dykstra\">St. Catharines</a>, without revenue, how would the Liberals have eliminated the deficit that we inherited from the Conservatives? How would the Liberals have lowered the debt? How would the Liberals have had money to invest in infrastructure, in health, in post-secondary education?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"609796\" data-originallang=\"en\">The large-mouthed bass took the bait and he finally clarified what we committed to in the red book of 1993, to replace the GST with an equally revenue generating tax, and not mislead Canadians by saying replace and scrap the GST, period. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"609797\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I am glad he took the challenge, and I will take him on any time.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"609793\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le poisson a gob\u00e9 mon app\u00e2t sans h\u00e9sitation, car ce que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"78817\" href=\"/politicians/rick-dykstra/\" title=\"Rick Dykstra\">St. Catharines</a> a dit pr\u00e9c\u00e9demment, dans une question qu'il m'a pos\u00e9e, \u00e9tait la moiti\u00e9 de la phrase. Il est officiellement consign\u00e9 qu'il a dit que les lib\u00e9raux avaient promis dans le livre rouge d'\u00e9liminer la TPS, un point c'est tout.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"609794\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je le remercie parce que c'est la premi\u00e8re fois depuis les \u00e9lections de 1993 qu'un membre de ce parti compl\u00e8te enfin la phrase telle qu'elle est r\u00e9ellement consign\u00e9e dans les journaux, les m\u00e9dias et le livre rouge. Il a clairement dit que les lib\u00e9raux remplaceraient la TPS par une autre taxe aussi lucrative.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"609795\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais demander ceci au d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"78817\" href=\"/politicians/rick-dykstra/\" title=\"Rick Dykstra\">St. Catharines</a>: sans revenus, comment les lib\u00e9raux auraient-ils \u00e9limin\u00e9 le d\u00e9ficit h\u00e9rit\u00e9 des conservateurs? Comment les lib\u00e9raux auraient-ils r\u00e9duit la dette? Comment les lib\u00e9raux se seraient-ils procur\u00e9 l'argent n\u00e9cessaire pour investir dans les infrastructures, la sant\u00e9, l'\u00e9ducation postsecondaire?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"609796\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le poisson a gob\u00e9 l'app\u00e2t et a finalement pr\u00e9cis\u00e9 l'engagement que nous avions pris dans le livre rouge en 1993, soit d'\u00e9liminer la TPS pour la remplacer par une taxe aussi lucrative, et non pas de tromper les Canadiens en affirmant vouloir uniquement \u00e9liminer la TPS.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"609797\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je suis heureux qu'il ait relev\u00e9 le d\u00e9fi. Je suis pr\u00eat \u00e0 recommencer quand il voudra.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/5/10/john-cannis-9/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/john-cannis/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3222/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2076298",
"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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}