Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2015-03-10 16:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Wayne Marston",
        "fr": "M. Wayne Marston"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4003523\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, we are actually on two different tracks. Income splitting will affect working Canadians in an inequitable way. It is going to take about $3 billion a year out of the fiscal capacity to do things for other Canadians. In other words, the top 15% has $3 billion and the bottom, who need something, is getting nothing.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4003524\" data-originallang=\"en\">As far as the age of retirement is concerned, a cynical person would say this is simple dollars and cents. If people lived in Ontario and were on Ontario Works and welfare, at age 65 they would have gone to OAS and GIS and would have had a modest increase. Now they have to wait two years. If people were on sick benefits in the province of Ontario, at age 65 they got more benefits because they went on these other pensions. Again, they have to wait. In the meantime, the provinces are now going to pick up $6,000 per person, and that is money the government does not spend. The Conservatives are saving money on the backs of the people who are in the worst situation in our country and the seniors.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4003523\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, nous partons de deux principes diff\u00e9rents. Le fractionnement du revenu touchera les travailleurs canadiens de fa\u00e7on injuste. Il privera notre pays d'environ 3 milliards de dollars par ann\u00e9e en recettes fiscales qui auraient pu servir \u00e0 aider d'autres Canadiens. Autrement dit, la tranche sup\u00e9rieure de 15 % de la population recevra 3 milliards de dollars, alors que la tranche inf\u00e9rieure, qui a besoin d'aide, n'aura rien. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4003524\" data-originallang=\"en\">En ce qui concerne l'\u00e2ge de la retraite, les esprits cyniques diraient qu'il s'agit uniquement d'une question d'argent. Prenons le cas d'un habitant de l'Ontario qui re\u00e7oit des prestations du programme Ontario au travail et qui vit de l'assistance sociale; \u00e0 l'\u00e2ge de 65 ans, il passerait \u00e0 la S\u00e9curit\u00e9 de la vieillesse et au Suppl\u00e9ment de revenu garanti, ce qui repr\u00e9sente une augmentation modeste de ses prestations. Toutefois, maintenant, cette personne aura \u00e0 attendre deux ans. Dans le cas d'une personne qui touche des prestations de maladie dans la province de l'Ontario, \u00e0 l'\u00e2ge de 65 ans, elle recevrait plus de prestations parce qu'elle commencerait \u00e0 toucher ces autres pensions. L\u00e0 encore, ces gens devront d\u00e9sormais attendre. Entretemps, les provinces seront oblig\u00e9es de d\u00e9penser 6 000 $ par personne, montant que le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral n'aura plus \u00e0 d\u00e9bourser. Ainsi, les conservateurs r\u00e9alisent des \u00e9conomies aux d\u00e9pens des Canadiens qui sont dans la situation la plus pr\u00e9caire, notamment les a\u00een\u00e9s. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2015/3/10/wayne-marston-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/wayne-marston/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/492/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8608357",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Business of Supply",
        "fr": "Travaux des subsides"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Government Investments",
        "fr": "Motion de l\u2019opposition \u2014 Les investissements du gouvernement"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2015/3/10/",
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    }
}