Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2016-06-17 10:45:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Alistair MacGregor",
        "fr": "M. Alistair MacGregor"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4435671\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, my colleague raises a very important point about corporate tax rates because the other question the NDP has always received is how would members have paid for their platform. No one in the House except this party has looked seriously at how low corporate tax rates are, how they have been on a downward trend for a decade now, how we are the lowest in the OECD with an average lower than the United States, and yet there has not been a corresponding investment by those corporations.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4435672\" data-originallang=\"en\"> In fact, none other than the former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney has referred to the corporate bank accounts that are filled to the brim with dead money. It is not being invested, so despite the low corporate tax rates we have, we have not seen the corresponding investment by the private sector.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4435673\" data-originallang=\"en\">All we are asking is that corporations pay their fair share in our society. Their rates go up a little bit more to make life easier on the rest of Canadians and I think the member makes a very fine point because the tax burden for too long has been on the real middle class and that is the one that the NDP is proud to support.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4435671\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, mon coll\u00e8gue soul\u00e8ve une question tr\u00e8s importante \u00e0 propos du taux d\u2019imposition des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s, car ce qu\u2019on demande toujours aux n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrates, c\u2019est comment ils auraient financ\u00e9 leurs promesses \u00e9lectorales. Aucun autre parti repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 ici n\u2019a examin\u00e9 aussi s\u00e9rieusement que le NPD la question du faible taux d\u2019imposition des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s, la baisse r\u00e9guli\u00e8re de ce taux depuis 10 ans maintenant, \u00e0 tel point que nous sommes le pays de l\u2019OCDE \u00e0 afficher le taux le plus faible, encore plus faible que le taux am\u00e9ricain, alors que les soci\u00e9t\u00e9s qui en profitent ne font pas les investissements correspondants.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4435672\" data-originallang=\"en\">En fait, Mark Carney lui-m\u00eame, l\u2019ancien gouverneur de la Banque du Canada, avait reconnu que les comptes bancaires des entreprises \u00e9taient remplis d\u2019argent qui dort, d\u2019argent qui n\u2019est pas investi. Autrement dit, m\u00eame si elles b\u00e9n\u00e9ficient d\u2019un faible taux d\u2019imposition, les grandes entreprises du secteur priv\u00e9 ne consentent pas les investissements correspondants.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4435673\" data-originallang=\"en\">Tout ce que nous demandons, c\u2019est qu'elles payent leur juste part d\u2019imp\u00f4t. Il suffirait d\u2019augmenter tr\u00e8s l\u00e9g\u00e8rement leur taux d\u2019imposition pour rendre la vie plus facile \u00e0 un grand nombre de Canadiens. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a eu tout \u00e0 fait raison de faire remarquer que, depuis trop longtemps, c\u2019est la vraie classe moyenne qui assume une bonne partie du fardeau fiscal. C\u2019est donc une mesure que le NPD serait pr\u00eat \u00e0 appuyer.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2016/6/17/alistair-macgregor-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/alistair-macgregor/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4409/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "9010056",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Income Tax Act",
        "fr": "La Loi de l'imp\u00f4t sur le revenu"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2016/6/17/",
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    }
}