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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2015-12-08 18:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Raj Grewal",
"fr": "M. Raj Grewal"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4173623\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the reason that the universal child care benefit did not work is that it disproportionately helped the richest Canadians.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4173624\" data-originallang=\"en\">Another thing to note on the tax credit that the former government imposed was that it was taxable. When we were in campaign mode, going door to door, families were saying that they were getting the benefit but then they had to pay taxes on it. It felt like it was coming in through one door and being taken out another door.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4173625\" data-originallang=\"en\">The Canada child benefit is a targeted investment to help the most vulnerable Canadians, the people who need the help the most, get more money. We are asking the richest 1% of Canadians to do a little more so that middle-class families have more. </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4173623\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, si la prestation universelle pour la garde d'enfants n'a pas fonctionn\u00e9, c'est qu'elle aidait de fa\u00e7on disproportionn\u00e9e les personnes les plus riches.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4173624\" data-originallang=\"en\">Rappelons aussi que le cr\u00e9dit d'imp\u00f4t instaur\u00e9 par le gouvernement pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent \u00e9tait imposable. Quand nous faisions du porte-\u00e0-porte, pendant la campagne, nous nous faisions dire par des familles qu'elles touchaient la prestation, mais qu'elles devaient ensuite payer de l'imp\u00f4t l\u00e0-dessus. Elles avaient l'impression que ce qu'on leur donnait d'une main, on le leur enlevait de l'autre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4173625\" data-originallang=\"en\"> L'allocation canadienne aux enfants est un investissement cibl\u00e9 visant \u00e0 aider les Canadiens les plus vuln\u00e9rables, ceux qui ont le plus besoin d'aide, \u00e0 obtenir de l'argent. Nous demandons aux contribuables les plus riches, qui constituent 1 % de la population, d'en faire un peu plus pour que les familles de la classe moyenne en aient plus.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2015/12/8/raj-grewal-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/raj-grewal/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4271/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8761686",
"h1": {
"en": "Speech from the Throne",
"fr": "Discours du Tr\u00f4ne"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply",
"fr": "Reprise du d\u00e9bat sur l'Adresse en r\u00e9ponse"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2015/12/8/",
"related": {
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}
}