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{
"time": "2011-02-08 13:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Gerry Byrne",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2302674\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, the party of big business, the Conservative Party of Canada, has indeed raised taxes, whether it be payroll taxes through increases in EI premiums or through actual, direct, straightforward, indisputable increases in the personal income tax rate.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2302675\" data-originallang=\"en\">The Conservatives brought the personal income tax rate in this country from 15% to 15.5% when they took office. The Conservatives did so by saying that they simply cancelled the tax cut and did not actually raise taxes. To use their logic, they are definitely raising taxes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2302676\" data-originallang=\"en\">One of the biggest fallacies of this entire argument is what the Conservatives never ever want to talk about, what they will never spend government advertising talking about, and that is the fact that they are raising revenue on the backs of those who can least afford it.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2302677\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Cutting seniors pensions the way the government has done time and time again, consistently showing contempt for Canada's seniors, is probably the worst thing to happen to this economy. Money is being taken away from those who earned it and who earned it through hard efforts over the course of a working lifetime. They are being told, as the Conservatives are doing it, that secretly, quietly, unabashedly their seniors pensions will be shaved off to help the government pay for its problems.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2302678\" data-originallang=\"en\">The Conservative government has a lot to answer for.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2302674\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, le parti de la grande entreprise, soit le Parti conservateur du Canada, a effectivement augment\u00e9 les imp\u00f4ts, que ce soit les charges sociales par le truchement de la hausse des cotisations au r\u00e9gime d'assurance-emploi ou le taux d'imposition des particuliers, qu'il a augment\u00e9 directement, c'est irr\u00e9futable.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2302675\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les conservateurs ont fait passer le taux d'imposition des particuliers de 15 p. 100 \u00e0 15,5 p. 100 lorsqu'ils sont arriv\u00e9s au pouvoir. Ils ont affirm\u00e9 avoir aboli une r\u00e9duction d'imp\u00f4t pr\u00e9alable plut\u00f4t qu'avoir augment\u00e9 les imp\u00f4ts. Si on applique leur logique, on peut dire qu'ils ont clairement augment\u00e9 les imp\u00f4ts.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2302676\" data-originallang=\"en\">Une des plus grandes aberrations dans toute cette histoire, la chose dont les conservateurs ne veulent jamais parler, celle qui ne fera jamais l'objet d'une publicit\u00e9 gouvernementale, c'est qu'ils veulent augmenter les recettes sur le dos des plus d\u00e9munis.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2302677\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le gouvernement a r\u00e9duit les pensions des personnes \u00e2g\u00e9es \u00e0 plusieurs reprises, d\u00e9montrant leur m\u00e9pris pour les a\u00een\u00e9s au Canada; c'est probablement la pire chose \u00e0 faire dans la situation actuelle. On retire de l'argent \u00e0 ceux qui l'ont m\u00e9rit\u00e9, \u00e0 grand peine, au cours de toute une vie. Ils ont appris que les conservateurs r\u00e9duiront subrepticement et sans honte leurs pensions afin de permettre au gouvernement de se sortir du p\u00e9trin.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2302678\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le gouvernement conservateur a beaucoup de comptes \u00e0 rendre.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2011/2/8/gerry-byrne-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/gerry-byrne/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3681/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3726309",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion--Tax Rate for Large Corporations",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2011/2/8/",
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}