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{
    "time": "2016-11-14 17:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Jamie Schmale",
        "fr": "M. Jamie Schmale"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4635436\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I appreciate the work of my friend across the way on the procedure and House affairs committee. I do appreciate the back and forth we are having.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4635437\" data-originallang=\"en\">I could also ask if raising taxes to 100% would cause prosperity, because we can see what is going on. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4635438\" data-originallang=\"en\">I think what we need to have are reasonable taxes and to keep taxes lower. Stop gouging our job creators and wealth creators in our communities. As I have said many times, when we put the people who put the help wanted signs in windows out of business and they go away, they are not coming back. What is left? Blight. How do we have a successful economy, putting people to work, creating wealth, paying taxes if the businesses are not there?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4635439\" data-originallang=\"en\">We continue this debate and we have talked about what the Canadian Federation of Independent Business continues to say, which is that these tax increases are worrisome to Canadian small businesses, from coast to coast to coast.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4635436\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, j'appr\u00e9cie le travail de mon coll\u00e8gue d'en face au comit\u00e9 de la proc\u00e9dure et des affaires de la Chambre. J'appr\u00e9cie beaucoup cet \u00e9change.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4635437\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aurais tout aussi bien pu demander si hausser les imp\u00f4ts \u00e0 100 % cr\u00e9erait de la prosp\u00e9rit\u00e9, car nous voyons ce qui se passe.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4635438\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je pense que l'imp\u00f4t doit \u00eatre raisonnable et maintenu \u00e0 un bas niveau. Il faut cesser de siphonner les cr\u00e9ateurs d'emplois et de richesse qui nous entourent. Comme je l'ai dit maintes fois, lorsque nous poussons \u00e0 la faillite ceux qui embauchent et qu'ils s'en vont, ils ne reviennent pas. Que reste-t-il? La consternation. Comment pouvons-nous avoir une \u00e9conomie florissante, donner du travail aux gens, cr\u00e9er de la richesse et payer de l'imp\u00f4t en l'absence d'entreprises?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4635439\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous poursuivons ce d\u00e9bat et nous parlons de ce que la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration canadienne de l'entreprise ind\u00e9pendante ne cesse de dire: les augmentations d'imp\u00f4t sont pr\u00e9occupantes pour les petites entreprises canadiennes, d'un oc\u00e9an \u00e0 l'autre.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2016/11/14/jamie-schmale-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/jamie-schmale/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4304/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "9229063",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Budget Implementation Act, 2016, No. 2",
        "fr": "Loi no 2 d'ex\u00e9cution du budget de 2016"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Second Reading",
        "fr": "Deuxi\u00e8me lecture"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2016/11/14/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2016%2F11%2F14%2F"
    }
}