Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2009-02-11 16:55:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Malcolm Allen",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1278332\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, let me talk about severance pay, since I know a lot about severance pay and EI. It does not get people one dollar more from employment insurance to get severance. EI claws it back, dollar for dollar, which means they do not qualify, so that is a non-starter.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1278333\" data-originallang=\"en\">Let me just quote for the member what the Association of Community Colleges in Canada said about the training programs, \u201cWe do not have the places.\u201d They do not have the infrastructure in place to accept all those folks that perhaps the money would help, if the government can get it out the door fast enough. The problem is, if we look at the last program, the money did not get out the door.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1278334\" data-originallang=\"en\">If the government did get the money out the door, we would simply have folks lined up at community colleges waiting to get in. That is what the community colleges said. They said that they needed $7.4 billion, of which they expected the federal government to come up with $3.4 billion, to help them build the spaces to get those folks in and retrained. What they did get instead was $300 million this year and $200 million next year, which by my count is a shortfall of about $2.9 billion. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1278335\" data-originallang=\"en\">It seems to me we will have people lined up outside community colleges waiting to get to those seats to be retrained. Standing and saying \u201cwe will\u201d, does not get it done.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1278332\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je vais parler des indemnit\u00e9s de d\u00e9part, puisque j'en connais un bout l\u00e0-dessus et sur l'assurance-emploi. Une personne qui obtient une indemnit\u00e9 de d\u00e9part ne re\u00e7oit pas un dollar de plus de l'assurance-emploi. L'assurance-emploi r\u00e9cup\u00e8re les indemnit\u00e9s de d\u00e9part en entier, dollar pour dollar, ce qui signifie que ces montants ne comptent pas. C'est donc une fausse pr\u00e9misse.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1278333\" data-originallang=\"en\">Permettez-moi de r\u00e9p\u00e9ter au d\u00e9put\u00e9 ce que l'Association des coll\u00e8ges communautaires du Canada a dit \u00e0 propos des programmes de formation: \u00ab Nous n'avons pas assez de place. \u00bb Les coll\u00e8ges ne disposent pas de l'infrastructure n\u00e9cessaire pour accueillir tous ces gens que l'argent pourrait aider, si le gouvernement envoyait les paiements assez vite. Le probl\u00e8me, c'est que le gouvernement n'a pas envoy\u00e9 les paiements pour le programme pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1278334\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si le gouvernement l'avait fait, les gens feraient la file devant les coll\u00e8ges communautaires. C'est ce qu'affirment les coll\u00e8ges. Ils ont dit qu'ils avaient besoin de 7,4 milliards de dollars et qu'ils s'attendaient \u00e0 ce que le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral contribue 3,4 milliards de dollars pour les aider \u00e0 accueillir tous ceux qui voulaient suivre un programme de recyclage. Ils ont plut\u00f4t obtenu 300 millions de dollars cette ann\u00e9e et 200 millions l'an prochain, ce qui, il me semble, laisse un manque \u00e0 gagner d'environ 2,9 milliards de dollars.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1278335\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'ai l'impression que les gens vont bel et bien faire la file devant les coll\u00e8ges communautaires en attendant d'avoir une place. Il ne suffit pas pour le gouvernement de dire qu'il a l'intention d'agir.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2009/2/11/malcolm-allen-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/malcolm-allen/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/931/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2599344",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Budget Implementation Act, 2009",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2009/2/11/",
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