Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2010-04-13 11:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. John Rafferty (Thunder Bay\u2014Rainy River, NDP)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1870767\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I am pleased to speak to 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>, the budget implementation act. I would like to spend my time talking about some of the things that are in the bill but also about some of the things that are not in the bill and things that should be discussed.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870768\" data-originallang=\"en\">I certainly appreciate the comments of my colleague across the way and thank her very much for those comments.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870769\" data-originallang=\"en\">Let me talk about a couple of things that are in the budget that will create hardships not just for people in Thunder Bay\u2014Rainy River in northwestern Ontario, but right across northern Ontario and other regions across the country. There is the increase of 50% in security fees in the airline tax. That is one of those hidden things that people will be hit with. There is the HST on financial services. We have talked about some of the problems with that before. Another is employment insurance. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870770\" data-originallang=\"en\">Employment insurance is of particular interest to our party, to me and to our member from New Brunswick who is the critic in that area. The budget implementation bill empties the employment insurance account which held a surplus of roughly $57 billion. That was money paid by workers and employers which had built up over many years. The bill empties that account once and for all.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870771\" data-originallang=\"en\">People talk about the budget being a budget that says nothing. There are a number of things in it that we need to be aware of.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870772\" data-originallang=\"en\">There is very little said about pensions. I suspect that the <a data-HoCid=\"78777\" href=\"/politicians/jim-flaherty/\" title=\"Jim Flaherty\">Minister of Finance</a> who is now going across the country will be getting an earful about pensions. We know where pensions need to go in this country. We are really in the dark ages as far as pensions are concerned. The NDP has a plan and we put it forward. The Minister of Finance is aware of what we are talking about regarding reforming the pension system.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870773\" data-originallang=\"en\">I will make a quick plug for Bill <a data-HoCid=\"4329007\" href=\"/bills/40-3/C-501/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (termination and severance pay)\">C-501</a> which will be coming up for debate next month. It is a bill that moves workers' pensions from unsecured into secured status. It is a very simple, straightforward bill. I am hoping that everyone in the House will support it, including my colleagues from Saskatchewan and other places whom we try to co-operate with as much as possible. I am sure we will find some common ground on Bill C-501 and will be able to push it through very quickly to protect workers.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870774\" data-originallang=\"en\">Imagine a country where workers and employers who paid into pension funds actually get the money back in the case of bankruptcy. That is what the bill would do. I certainly hope that members will support it. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870775\" data-originallang=\"en\">I do not want to be completely negative when I talk about the budget. The budget extends the mineral exploration tax credit for another year, which is good. I am glad that the government has done that. The government is at least taking a couple of steps forward to fight contraband cigarettes with a new stamping regime which is a good thing. The budget also enacts certain payments to some charities, for example the Canadian Youth Business Foundation, the Rick Hansen Foundation and others. That is also a good thing.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870776\" data-originallang=\"en\">Let me move from examining the propaganda in the budget speech to the nuts and bolts of 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>. We see that the Conservative government continues to sell out our long-term interest for questionable short-term gains.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870777\" data-originallang=\"en\">I was not surprised to see many items 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>, the HST payment to McGuinty's Liberals for example, a freeze on MPs' salaries and office budgets and huge corporate tax cuts. These were all expected.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870778\" data-originallang=\"en\">Buried deep in the 904 pages of legal jargon that is 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> there are also provisions that eliminate the need for environmental assessments for stimulus projects, enable the sale of crown assets like Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, and increase the export tariff penalty for Canadian forestry producers. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870779\" data-originallang=\"en\">Given that we are blessed with a beautiful and relatively pristine natural environment in northwestern Ontario, I am very concerned that environmental assessments will no longer need to be completed before infrastructure stimulus projects get under way.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870780\" data-originallang=\"en\">While the Canadian economy is in desperate need of public investment, northwestern Ontario is in desperate need of new roads and highways right through the region. I would rather have a month or two delay on these projects so as to ensure that they comply with existing environmental regulations and do not have negative long-term effects on our natural environment, which many families in our region depend upon for their economic well-being.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870781\" data-originallang=\"en\">Just as it does not make sense to cancel environmental assessments in the name of short-term economic stimulus, it also makes little sense to sell off profitable crown corporations and crown assets when we are facing many years of large fiscal deficits. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870782\" data-originallang=\"en\">In the case of AECL, 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> lays the groundwork for the selling off of particular assets or of the company as a whole, even though the company is one of the world's largest producers of nuclear technology and brings in millions of dollars each year through the sale and licensing of its cutting-edge technology. Would it not make more sense to halt the $100 million ad campaign the Conservatives are using to promote their budget? Imagine $100 million being spent on ads to promote themselves; the Conservatives are using that to promote their budget supposedly.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870783\" data-originallang=\"en\">How about reducing the $60 billion in corporate tax cuts before selling off a proven long-term money maker? The answer is obvious but the government has never shown an ability to look beyond the next poll when it comes to its decision making.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870784\" data-originallang=\"en\">Perhaps the most troubling detail contained in the fine print of 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> is the acceptance and enforcement of the London Court of International Arbitration ruling that Canadian forest companies owe $68 million to their U.S. counterparts, $68.26 million to be exact, due to an unintentional violation of the softwood lumber agreement. In fact, the unintentional violation is the government's fault. To comply with this ruling, the Conservative government included a provision 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> that increases the export tariff on softwood lumber products from Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and Saskatchewan by 10% immediately. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870785\" data-originallang=\"en\">When one subtracts the paltry $25 million in new forest sector investment that is also contained in the budget, Canada's forestry sector will actually be forced to pay out $43 million in new taxes and tariffs this year just as it begins to emerge from a catastrophic decade-long downturn. It makes no sense. At the very least, since the tribunal has already ruled, the government should be on the hook, not forest companies that are struggling to manage and are just starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870786\" data-originallang=\"en\">It is a horrible situation 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>, eliminating the need for environmental assessments on infrastructure projects and selling off profitable assets while running massive long-term deficits.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870787\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I talked about AECL. Also contained 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> is the beginning, the thin edge of the wedge, in starting to dismantle Canada Post. Think of all the fine public sector workers who have good jobs, work hard, are paid well and have pensions at the end of their time. There is nothing wrong with people working hard, getting paid well, raising their families and having a little pension when they get to the end of their working lives. There is nothing wrong with that, but the government is making it more and more difficult for people in Canada to do that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870788\" data-originallang=\"en\">Surely 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> will go down as one of the most shortsighted and misguided budget documents ever before the House of Commons. Should the Liberals and Conservatives band together to pass this bill, as they did with the HST, then both parties must share the blame for the substantial damage that it is likely to cause to the long-term economic and environmental interests in our region.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1870767\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je suis heureux de prendre la parole relativement au 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>, la loi d'ex\u00e9cution du budget. Je veux parler de certaines mesures pr\u00e9vues dans le projet de loi, mais aussi d'autres qui ne le sont pas, ainsi que de certains points qui devraient \u00eatre examin\u00e9s.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870768\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'appr\u00e9cie les observations de la d\u00e9put\u00e9e d'en face, et je la remercie de les avoir formul\u00e9es. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870769\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je vais maintenant traiter de quelques mesures pr\u00e9vues dans le budget qui vont cr\u00e9er des difficult\u00e9s, non seulement dans la circonscription de Thunder Bay\u2014Rainy River, dans le Nord-Ouest de l'Ontario, mais dans tout le Nord de la province et dans d'autres r\u00e9gions d'un bout \u00e0 l'autre du pays. Il y a notamment l'augmentation de 50 p. 100 des droits pour la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 des passagers du transport a\u00e9rien. C'est une mesure cach\u00e9e qui va frapper les gens. Il y a la TVH sur les services financiers. Nous avons d\u00e9j\u00e0 discut\u00e9 de certains des probl\u00e8mes li\u00e9s \u00e0 cette mesure. Il y a aussi l'assurance-emploi.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870770\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'assurance-emploi nous int\u00e9resse tout particuli\u00e8rement, mon parti, moi et mon coll\u00e8gue du Nouveau-Brunswick, qui est notre porte-parole dans ce domaine. Le projet de loi d'ex\u00e9cution du budget vide le compte d'assurance-emploi, qui renferme un exc\u00e9dent d'environ 57 milliards de dollars. Cet argent, vers\u00e9 par les travailleurs et les employeurs, s'est accumul\u00e9 sur une p\u00e9riode de plusieurs ann\u00e9es. Or, le projet de loi vide le compte une fois pour toutes. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870771\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les gens disent que le budget ne rime \u00e0 rien, mais il faut \u00eatre conscient d'un certain nombre de mesures pr\u00e9vues. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870772\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le budget traite tr\u00e8s peu des pensions. J'imagine que le <a data-HoCid=\"78777\" href=\"/politicians/jim-flaherty/\" title=\"Jim Flaherty\">ministre des Finances</a>, qui est en train de sillonner le pays, va beaucoup entendre parler des pensions. Nous savons ce qu'il faut faire avec les pensions au Canada. Nous sommes vraiment dans la grande noirceur pour ce qui est des pensions. Le NPD a un plan et nous l'avons pr\u00e9sent\u00e9. Le ministre des Finances est au courant de nos propositions en mati\u00e8re de r\u00e9forme du syst\u00e8me des pensions.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870773\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'en profite pour faire un peu la promotion du projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"4329007\" href=\"/bills/40-3/C-501/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (termination and severance pay)\">C-501</a>, qui sera d\u00e9battu le mois prochain. Cette mesure vise \u00e0 prot\u00e9ger les pensions des travailleurs qui ne le sont pas. C'est un projet de loi tr\u00e8s simple et tr\u00e8s clair. J'esp\u00e8re que tous les d\u00e9put\u00e9s vont l'appuyer, y compris mes coll\u00e8gues de la Saskatchewan et d'ailleurs, avec lesquels nous nous effor\u00e7ons de collaborer dans toute la mesure du possible. Je suis convaincu que nous allons trouver un terrain d'entente relativement au projet de loi C-501 et que nous allons pouvoir lui faire franchir les \u00e9tapes tr\u00e8s rapidement afin de prot\u00e9ger les travailleurs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870774\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous r\u00eavons d'un pays o\u00f9 les travailleurs et les employeurs qui ont cotis\u00e9 \u00e0 des caisses de retraite obtiennent le remboursement de leurs cotisations en cas de faillite. C'est ce que le projet de loi permettrait de faire. J'esp\u00e8re bien que les d\u00e9put\u00e9s vont appuyer cette initiative.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870775\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je ne veux pas \u00eatre uniquement n\u00e9gatif lorsque je parle du budget. Le budget prolonge d'une autre ann\u00e9e le cr\u00e9dit d'imp\u00f4t pour l'exploration mini\u00e8re, ce qui est bien. Je suis heureux que le gouvernement ait pris cette d\u00e9cision. Au moins, le gouvernement prend certaines mesures pour lutter contre la contrebande de cigarettes, notamment en adoptant un nouveau r\u00e9gime d'estampillage des produits du tabac. Le budget pr\u00e9voit aussi un soutien financier \u00e0 des organisations caritatives comme la Fondation canadienne des jeunes entrepreneurs, la Fondation Rick Hansen et d'autres. C'est une autre bonne mesure. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870776\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je veux maintenant laisser de c\u00f4t\u00e9 la propagande v\u00e9hicul\u00e9e dans le discours du budget et traiter des d\u00e9tails du 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>. Nous constatons que le gouvernement conservateur continue de vendre nos int\u00e9r\u00eats \u00e0 long terme pour r\u00e9aliser des gains \u00e0 court terme douteux.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870777\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je n'ai pas \u00e9t\u00e9 surpris de voir certaines mesures 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>, par exemple le versement d'une somme aux lib\u00e9raux de McGuinty pour l'harmonisation des taxes, le gel des salaires et des budgets de bureau des d\u00e9put\u00e9s f\u00e9d\u00e9raux, ainsi que d'importantes r\u00e9ductions de l'imp\u00f4t des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s. Ces mesures \u00e9taient toutes pr\u00e9vues. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870778\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le verbiage juridique qu'est 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> de 904 pages camoufle \u00e9galement des dispositions qui \u00e9liminent la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de r\u00e9aliser des \u00e9valuations environnementales dans le cadre de projets de relance, qui permettent de brader des biens de la Couronne tels qu'\u00c9nergie atomique du Canada limit\u00e9e et d'augmenter les tarifs \u00e0 l'exportation qui p\u00e9nalisent les producteurs forestiers canadiens.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870779\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme nous avons la chance d'avoir un environnement naturel magnifique et relativement intact dans le Nord-Ouest de l'Ontario, je suis tr\u00e8s pr\u00e9occup\u00e9 par le fait que les \u00e9valuations environnementales ne seront plus n\u00e9cessaires avant la mise en branle de projets de stimulation de l'infrastructure.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870780\" data-originallang=\"en\">Alors que l'\u00e9conomie canadienne a d\u00e9sesp\u00e9r\u00e9ment besoin d'investissements publics, le Nord-Ouest de l'Ontario, lui, a d\u00e9sesp\u00e9r\u00e9ment besoin de nouvelles routes \u00e0 la grandeur de la r\u00e9gion. Personnellement, je prolongerais plut\u00f4t d'un mois ou deux les d\u00e9lais accord\u00e9s \u00e0 ces projets afin de veiller \u00e0 ce qu'ils respectent la r\u00e9glementation environnementale et qu'ils n'entra\u00eenent pas, \u00e0 long terme, de r\u00e9percussions n\u00e9gatives sur notre environnement naturel, dont d\u00e9pendent un grand nombre de familles dans notre r\u00e9gion pour assurer leur bien-\u00eatre \u00e9conomique.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870781\" data-originallang=\"en\">Tout comme il est insens\u00e9 d'\u00e9liminer les \u00e9valuations environnementales sous pr\u00e9texte de relancer l'\u00e9conomie \u00e0 court terme, il est insens\u00e9 de brader des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s et des biens de la Couronne alors que nous sommes aux prises avec des d\u00e9ficits importants depuis de nombreuses ann\u00e9es.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870782\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pour ce qui est d'\u00c9nergie atomique du Canada limit\u00e9e, 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> ouvre la porte \u00e0 la braderie de certaines biens ou de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 dans son ensemble, et ce, m\u00eame si la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 en question est un des plus grands producteurs de technologies nucl\u00e9aires dans le monde et rapporte des millions de dollars chaque ann\u00e9e gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la vente de ses technologies avant-gardistes et \u00e0 la d\u00e9livrance de permis. Ne serait-il pas plus sens\u00e9 de cesser la campagne publicitaire de 100 millions de dollars que m\u00e8nent les conservateurs pour promouvoir leur budget? Imaginez. Ils d\u00e9pensent 100 millions de dollars pour faire de la publicit\u00e9 partisane, mais ils pr\u00e9tendent que cette somme sert \u00e0 promouvoir leur budget. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870783\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ne pourrait-on pas couper dans les 60 milliards de dollars qu\u2019on pr\u00e9voit accorder aux soci\u00e9t\u00e9s sous forme de r\u00e9duction d\u2019imp\u00f4t avant de vendre une entreprise qui nous rapporte des b\u00e9n\u00e9fices depuis longtemps? La r\u00e9ponse va de soi mais, quand vient le temps de prendre une d\u00e9cision, le gouvernement ne semble pas particuli\u00e8rement habile pour ce qui est de voir au-del\u00e0 des prochaines \u00e9lections.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870784\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce qui est peut-\u00eatre le d\u00e9tail le plus troublant du 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> n\u2019y est pas inscrit clairement. Il s\u2019agit de l\u2019acceptation et de l\u2019application de la d\u00e9cision de la Cour d'arbitrage international de Londres, selon laquelle les soci\u00e9t\u00e9s foresti\u00e8res du Canada doivent 68 millions de dollars \u00e0 leurs homologues am\u00e9ricaines. La somme exacte de ce r\u00e8glement est 68,26 millions de dollars. Elle est attribuable \u00e0 une violation non intentionnelle de l\u2019accord sur le bois d'oeuvre. En fait, cette violation s\u2019est produite par la faute du gouvernement. Pour que nous puissions nous conformer \u00e0 cette d\u00e9cision, le gouvernement conservateur a inscrit 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> une disposition augmentant les droits d\u2019exportation de produits du bois d'oeuvre en provenance de l\u2019Ontario, du Qu\u00e9bec, du Manitoba et de la Saskatchewan. Il s\u2019agit d\u2019une hausse de 10 p. 100 prenant effet imm\u00e9diatement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870785\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si l\u2019on soustrait de cette somme l'investissement d\u00e9risoire de 25 millions de dollars dans le secteur forestier, qui est \u00e9galement pr\u00e9vu dans ce budget, le secteur forestier du Canada devra payer 43 millions de dollars en nouveaux droits et taxes cette ann\u00e9e, juste au moment o\u00f9 il commence \u00e0 se relever apr\u00e8s une d\u00e9cennie catastrophique. C'est insens\u00e9. Bien s\u00fbr, il s\u2019agit d\u2019une d\u00e9cision d\u2019un tribunal, mais c'est le gouvernement qui devrait \u00eatre tenu de payer, et non les soci\u00e9t\u00e9s foresti\u00e8res qui arrivent \u00e0 peine \u00e0 joindre les deux bouts et qui commencent tout juste \u00e0 voir la lumi\u00e8re au bout du tunnel.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870786\" data-originallang=\"en\">Bref, 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> nous place dans une situation d\u00e9plorable en \u00e9liminant l\u2019obligation d\u2019effectuer une \u00e9valuation environnementale avant de r\u00e9aliser un projet d\u2019infrastructure, en annon\u00e7ant la vente d\u2019actifs rentables et en pr\u00e9voyant d\u2019\u00e9normes d\u00e9ficits \u00e0 long terme.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870787\" data-originallang=\"en\">J\u2019ai d\u00e9j\u00e0 parl\u00e9 d\u2019EACL. 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> marque aussi le tout d\u00e9but, le premier signe, de l\u2019\u00e9limination de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 canadienne des postes. Pensez \u00e0 tous ces travailleurs du secteur public qui ont de bons emplois, qui travaillent fort, et qui jouissent d\u2019un bon salaire et d\u2019une pension de retraite. Il n\u2019y a rien de mal dans le fait que des gens travaillent fort, aient un bon salaire pour \u00e9lever leur famille et profitent d\u2019une petite pension quand ils cessent de travailler. Il n\u2019y a rien de mal \u00e0 cela, mais le gouvernement r\u00e9duit sans cesse les possibilit\u00e9s pour les Canadiens d\u2019avoir tout cela.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1870788\" data-originallang=\"en\">On se souviendra certainement du 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> comme d\u2019un budget malavis\u00e9 et \u00e0 courte vue, l\u2019un des pires du genre \u00e0 avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9tudi\u00e9s \u00e0 la Chambre des communes. Si les lib\u00e9raux et les conservateurs font front commun pour que ce projet de loi soit adopt\u00e9, comme ils l\u2019ont fait dans le cas de la TVH, ils devront porter le bl\u00e2me des graves dommages que cette mesure causera probablement, \u00e0 long terme, aux int\u00e9r\u00eats \u00e9conomiques et environnementaux de notre r\u00e9gion.</p>"
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