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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2012-04-26 17:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Andrew Cash (Davenport, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Andrew Cash (Davenport, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2811799\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for her speech and the way she mapped out the realities for seniors in Canada today.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2811800\" data-originallang=\"en\">Sometimes I wonder if the members opposite live in a Pleasantville world where seniors have all sorts of disposable cash to shoot around and therefore we can bump up the eligibility for OAS.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2811801\" data-originallang=\"en\">We have a serious issue in Canada around affordability, but we also have a serious issue with the current government, which cannot seem to get its fiscal issues together.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2811802\" data-originallang=\"en\">My hon. colleague has mapped out and provided economic reasons as to why this plan absolutely does not make sense. For a modest increase in premiums, we could double CPP.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2811803\" data-originallang=\"en\">Could my hon. colleague could give us a sense of some alternatives to what has been proposed here?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2811799\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je remercie ma coll\u00e8gue de son intervention. Elle a bross\u00e9 un excellent portrait de la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 actuelle des a\u00een\u00e9s au Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2811800\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il m'arrive de me demander si les d\u00e9put\u00e9s d'en face vivent dans un paradis rose bonbon o\u00f9 les personnes \u00e2g\u00e9es ont de l'argent qui leur sort par les oreilles, donnant l'impression qu'on peut hausser l'\u00e2ge d'admissibilit\u00e9 \u00e0 la S\u00e9curit\u00e9 de la vieillesse, sans causer de probl\u00e8me.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2811801\" data-originallang=\"en\">Au Canada, nous avons un grave probl\u00e8me au chapitre de la capacit\u00e9 financi\u00e8re, mais aussi avec le gouvernement actuel, qui semble incapable de mettre de l'ordre dans les finances.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2811802\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ma coll\u00e8gue a expos\u00e9 dans le d\u00e9tail les raisons \u00e9conomiques qui expliquent que le plan n'a aucun sens. Une hausse modeste des cotisations suffirait \u00e0 doubler le RPC.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2811803\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ma coll\u00e8gue pourrait-elle nous sugg\u00e9rer quelques solutions de rechange \u00e0 ce qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 propos\u00e9?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2012/4/26/andrew-cash-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/andrew-cash/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4075/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "7539753",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Pensions",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition\u2014Les pensions"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2012/4/26/",
"related": {
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}
}