Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2014-10-30 15:50:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Adam Vaughan",
        "fr": "M. Adam Vaughan"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3867392\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I had the privilege of being a journalist here when some of those budgets were passed in the 1990s and 2000s. I recall the NDP voting several times with the Liberals to promote some good budget measures. The one that did not get passed was a national daycare program negotiated with the provinces, an issue the member will soon be confronting if her motion around daycare ever comes to fruition or if the NDP ever forms government. We all know we cannot negotiate with the provinces quickly. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3867393\" data-originallang=\"en\">The issue is this. When we have opportunities to agree, we should agree and we should work together to get stuff done on some issues. The last Liberal budget in 2005 had $2.4 billion for housing. If that budget had gone through, it would have taken with it the Kelowna accord, which would have had an extraordinary impact on aboriginal first nations communities. We would also have had a national child care policy from coast to coast to coast. Unfortunately, that budget did not survive. Co-operation on that one, which was not an omnibus bill, would have been really good for cities, municipalities, provinces and communities, but, most important, Canadians right across the country.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3867394\" data-originallang=\"en\">We need to start thinking about these issues in a more concise way. I share the NDP concern that the other side has done one thing and one thing only in this budget, and that is to make housing more expensive, while ignoring all of the other demands for housing. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3867395\" data-originallang=\"en\">On the issue of refugees looking for social assistance, the government has listened to nobody because nobody has asked for action. The Conservatives have slipped in a private member's bill in a way that can only be described as trying to hide their true motives. On that one, I share the NDP's distaste for the way in which the government has moved on this legislation</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3867392\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'ai eu le privil\u00e8ge d'\u00eatre journaliste ici lors de l'adoption de certains budgets dans les ann\u00e9es 1990 et 2000. Je me rappelle que le NPD a vot\u00e9 plusieurs fois avec les lib\u00e9raux afin de promouvoir de bonnes mesures budg\u00e9taires. L'une d'elles n'a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 accept\u00e9e: le programme national de garderies n\u00e9goci\u00e9 avec les provinces. Voil\u00e0 un probl\u00e8me auquel la d\u00e9put\u00e9e sera bient\u00f4t confront\u00e9e si sa motion sur les garderies aboutit ou si le NPD forme un jour le gouvernement. Nous savons tous que nous ne pouvons pas n\u00e9gocier rapidement avec les provinces.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3867393\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'enjeu est le suivant. Quand nous avons la possibilit\u00e9 de nous entendre, nous devrions le faire et travailler ensemble pour faire avancer les choses. Le dernier budget lib\u00e9ral de 2005 pr\u00e9voyait 2,4 milliards de dollars pour le logement. Si ce budget avait \u00e9t\u00e9 adopt\u00e9, il aurait permis la mise en oeuvre de l'accord de Kelowna, qui aurait eu une incidence extraordinaire sur les collectivit\u00e9s des Premi\u00e8res Nations. Nous aurions aussi pu profiter d'une politique nationale sur les garderies partout au pays. Malheureusement, ce budget n'a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 adopt\u00e9. S'il y avait eu coop\u00e9ration pour ce budget, qui n'\u00e9tait pas un projet de loi omnibus, cela aurait beaucoup profit\u00e9 aux villes, aux municipalit\u00e9s, aux provinces et aux collectivit\u00e9s, mais surtout, aux Canadiens de partout au pays.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3867394\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous devons nous pencher sur ces questions d'une mani\u00e8re plus concise. Comme les n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrates, je pense que tout ce que le parti d'en face a fait dans son budget, c'est augmenter le co\u00fbt du logement, en faisant fi de toutes les autres demandes en mati\u00e8re de logement. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3867395\" data-originallang=\"en\">Au sujet des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s qui ont besoin d'aide sociale, le gouvernement n'a \u00e9cout\u00e9 personne parce que personne n'a demand\u00e9 de mesures concr\u00e8tes. Les conservateurs ont pass\u00e9 en douce un projet de loi d'initiative parlementaire de mani\u00e8re \u00e0 cacher leurs v\u00e9ritables intentions. Je ne peux que partager l'aversion des n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrates pour la fa\u00e7on dont le gouvernement a agi en ce qui concerne cette mesure l\u00e9gislative. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2014/10/30/adam-vaughan-6/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/adam-vaughan/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4169/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8490033",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 2",
        "fr": "Loi no 2 sur le plan d'action \u00e9conomique de 2014"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2014/10/30/",
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