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{
"time": "2007-05-10 10:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. John McCallum",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"608680\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, if the only expert he can find is me, I rest my case. I am a little biased on the subject. I am a little partisan, parti pris, even though I acknowledge some expertise on the subject, and I thank the hon. member for that compliment.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"608681\" data-originallang=\"en\">The second point I would like to make is that when he says I am contradicting myself, because we want to go after tax havens or tax fairness, he is totally wrong. Did he not hear me read the five-point plan to create a task force whose explicit purpose is to go after abusive tax havens and abusive unfair behaviour by people who would cheat the system? That is exactly what I said.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"608682\" data-originallang=\"en\"> The only difference is that we can walk and chew gum at the same time. We can go both go after abuses and preserve the competitiveness of our economy. That government is so stupid it can only do one thing at a time: go after the abuses and destroy our companies. That is unacceptable to Canadians.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"608680\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, s'il ne peut trouver que moi comme expert, je n'ai rien \u00e0 ajouter. Je ne suis pas tout \u00e0 fait objectif \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard de cette question. Je suis l\u00e9g\u00e8rement partisan, j'ai un parti pris, m\u00eame si j'estime avoir une certaine comp\u00e9tence en la mati\u00e8re, mais je remercie n\u00e9anmoins le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de son compliment. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"608681\" data-originallang=\"en\">Deuxi\u00e8mement, il a carr\u00e9ment tort d'affirmer que je me contredis parce que nous voulons nous attaquer aux paradis fiscaux ou \u00e0 l'in\u00e9quit\u00e9 fiscale. Ne m'a-t-il pas entendu lire le plan en cinq points visant \u00e0 cr\u00e9er un groupe de travail dont l'objet explicite serait de s'en prendre aux paradis fiscaux et aux gens qui recourent \u00e0 des pratiques abusives pour flouer le syst\u00e8me? Voil\u00e0 exactement ce que j'ai dit. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"608682\" data-originallang=\"en\"> La seule diff\u00e9rence, c'est que nous pouvons marcher et m\u00e2cher de la gomme en m\u00eame temps. Autrement dit, il est possible de mettre fin aux abus tout en pr\u00e9servant la comp\u00e9titivit\u00e9 de l'\u00e9conomie. L'actuel gouvernement est tellement b\u00eate qu'il ne peut faire qu'une chose \u00e0 la fois: s'attaquer aux abus et an\u00e9antir les entreprises canadiennes. C'est inacceptable pour les Canadiens.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/5/10/john-mccallum-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/john-mccallum/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1387/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2072400",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Finance",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/5/10/",
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}
}