Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2010-04-01 17:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Jim Maloway",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1847291\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, thank you for the ruling.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1847292\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I think I was just hitting a very sensitive topic for the members opposite, because no sensible person in this country can be happy with the five banks earning $15 billion and having their presidents paid $6.2 million when other jurisdictions, like the European Union, have restrictions on what corporate executives earn. I believe it has been a long-time tradition in Japan that corporate executives have had limitations on what they can earn.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1847293\" data-originallang=\"en\">Just recently one of the banks did indicate at its shareholders' meeting that it is now taking input from the shareholders as to what executives are being paid. They are saying that they will not let them vet what they give to the executives but at least they will listen to the shareholders.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1847294\" data-originallang=\"en\">It is about time the government starting taking some action here and putting in some guidelines and some restrictions on runaway corporate benefits and corporate salaries, especially when it is giving them extra incentives by reducing their taxes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1847295\" data-originallang=\"en\">As I have indicated, this is an omnibus bill. The government is introducing all sorts of extra measures in here that have absolutely nothing to do with the subject at hand. One of the bills was the post office remailers, which has been brought in under various bills over the last three or four years, and as early as last year.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1847296\" data-originallang=\"en\">Since the government cannot get that bill through the House, it sticks it in Bill <a data-HoCid=\"4371983\" href=\"/bills/40-3/C-9/\" title=\"An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 4, 2010 and other measures\">C-9</a> and basically defies the opposition to vote against it and cause an election. Maybe that is what the government really wants, an election.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1847291\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je vous sais gr\u00e9 de votre d\u00e9cision. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1847292\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je pense que j'ai touch\u00e9 un point tr\u00e8s sensible chez les d\u00e9put\u00e9s d'en face parce qu'aucune personne raisonnable dans ce pays ne peut se r\u00e9jouir que les cinq banques aient enregistr\u00e9 des b\u00e9n\u00e9fices de 15 milliards de dollars et que leurs pr\u00e9sidents aient \u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9s 6,2 millions de dollars, alors m\u00eame que d'autres administrations comme l'Union europ\u00e9enne ont impos\u00e9 des restrictions sur la r\u00e9mun\u00e9ration des dirigeants d'entreprise. Je crois qu'au Japon, il y a une longue tradition imposant des limites aux salaires que les chefs d'entreprise peuvent gagner. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1847293\" data-originallang=\"en\">Tout r\u00e9cemment, une des banques a signal\u00e9 lors de la r\u00e9union de ses actionnaires que, dor\u00e9navant, on leur demanderait leur avis en ce qui a trait aux salaires des dirigeants. Les banques ne s'en remettront pas enti\u00e8rement aux actionnaires pour d\u00e9terminer la r\u00e9mun\u00e9ration qu'elles versent \u00e0 leurs dirigeants, mais au moins elles les \u00e9couteront.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1847294\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il est vraiment temps que le gouvernement commence \u00e0 prendre des mesures et \u00e0 mettre en place quelques lignes directrices et restrictions visant les b\u00e9n\u00e9fices des entreprises et les salaires de leurs dirigeants qui connaissent une hausse vertigineuse, en particulier au moment o\u00f9 il leur offre de nouveaux incitatifs en baissant leurs imp\u00f4ts.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1847295\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme je l'ai dit, il s'agit d'un projet de loi omnibus. Le gouvernement pr\u00e9sente toutes sortes de mesures additionnelles qui n'ont absolument rien \u00e0 voir avec le sujet trait\u00e9. L'une de ces mesures concernait les entreprises de repostage, dont il a \u00e9t\u00e9 question dans diff\u00e9rents projets de loi pr\u00e9sent\u00e9s depuis trois ou quatre ans, et pas plus tard que l'ann\u00e9e derni\u00e8re d'ailleurs. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1847296\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme le gouvernement n'arrive pas \u00e0 faire adopter ces dispositions par la Chambre, il les int\u00e8gre dans le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"4371983\" href=\"/bills/40-3/C-9/\" title=\"An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 4, 2010 and other measures\">C-9</a> et, en gros, met l'opposition au d\u00e9fi de voter contre et de d\u00e9clencher des \u00e9lections. Mais peut-\u00eatre est-ce l\u00e0 ce que veut vraiment le gouvernement, des \u00e9lections. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2010/4/1/jim-maloway-16/",
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    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "3081095",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Jobs and Economic Growth Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
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