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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2007-05-14 14:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Paul Cr\u00eate (Montmagny\u2014L'Islet\u2014Kamouraska\u2014Rivi\u00e8re-du-Loup, BQ)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"620481\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, this morning, the <a data-HoCid=\"78777\" href=\"/politicians/jim-flaherty/\" title=\"Jim Flaherty\">Minister of Finance</a> refused to turn off the Barbados tax treaty tap, which allows Canadian companies to repatriate $4 billion in profits without paying a cent in taxes to the federal government.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"620482\" data-originallang=\"fr\">How can the <a data-HoCid=\"78777\" href=\"/politicians/jim-flaherty/\" title=\"Jim Flaherty\">Minister of Finance</a> let the middle class pay the $800 million in taxes that big corporations get away with not paying because they are using the loophole provided by Barbados?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"620483\" data-originallang=\"fr\">When is he going to act?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"620481\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le <a data-HoCid=\"78777\" href=\"/politicians/jim-flaherty/\" title=\"Jim Flaherty\">ministre des Finances</a> a refus\u00e9 ce matin de fermer le robinet de la Convention fiscale de La Barbade, permettant ainsi \u00e0 des compagnies canadiennes de rapatrier 4 milliards de dollars de profits sans payer 1 \u00a2 d'imp\u00f4t au gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"620482\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Comment le <a data-HoCid=\"78777\" href=\"/politicians/jim-flaherty/\" title=\"Jim Flaherty\">ministre des Finances</a> peut-il accepter de faire payer par la classe moyenne les 800 millions de dollars en imp\u00f4t suppl\u00e9mentaire que les grandes compagnies ne paient pas parce qu'elles utilisent La Barbade comme \u00e9chappatoire?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"620483\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Quand agira-t-il?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/5/14/paul-crete-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/73/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/381/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2078753",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Taxation",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/5/14/",
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}
}