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{
"time": "2017-10-24 14:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Arnold Viersen (Peace River\u2014Westlock, CPC)",
"fr": "M. Arnold Viersen (Peace River\u2014Westlock, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5070968\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, recently Ali Mouallem, a constituent from Slave Lake Alberta, whose parents immigrated to canada, shared his frustration with the Liberal tax hikes. He writes:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"5070969\" data-originallang=\"en\"> My dad was 55 years old before he started writing cheques to himself. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5070970\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Before that, he struggled as an entrepreneur. He paid the government, he paid the bank, he paid his landlord, he paid the utilities, he paid his suppliers, he paid his staff and rarely paid himself. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5070971\" data-originallang=\"en\"> When there wasn't enough money left at the end of the month to pay his staff, he asked my mother to work and he picked up more and more shifts. They both worked long hours and work didn't get better.... </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5070972\" data-originallang=\"en\"> My parents sacrificed everything in their life. Their family, their money, their time, their health, their house, and their relationships for a better future. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5070973\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Our lives changed, when we opened a small pizza place 15 years ago. Finally, they were able to pay themselves and even put some money away to reinvest in our community. My parents finally had a retirement plan. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5070974\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Now...the Liberals want to penalize my parents for their life's work. [They] even accuse them of taking advantage of tax loopholes.... </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5070975\" data-originallang=\"en\"> This doesn't sound fair to me. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"5070976\" data-originallang=\"en\">There is nothing fair about the Liberals' fair tax proposal.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5070968\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, r\u00e9cemment, Ali Mouallem, un r\u00e9sidant de Slave Lake, en Alberta, dont les parents ont immigr\u00e9 au Canada, a fait \u00e9tat de ses frustrations concernant les hausses d'imp\u00f4ts des lib\u00e9raux. Il a \u00e9crit ceci:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"5070969\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Mon p\u00e8re avait 55 ans quand il a commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 libeller des ch\u00e8ques \u00e0 son propre nom. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5070970\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Avant cela, il n'a pas eu la vie facile comme entrepreneur. Il payait ce qu'il devait au gouvernement et \u00e0 la banque, le loyer et les factures et ses employ\u00e9s, mais il prenait rarement de l'argent pour lui-m\u00eame. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5070971\" data-originallang=\"en\"> S'il ne restait pas suffisamment d'argent \u00e0 la fin du mois pour payer ses employ\u00e9s, il demandait \u00e0 ma m\u00e8re de travailler et il travaillait davantage lui-m\u00eame. Tous les deux travaillaient d'arrache-pied, mais les affaires n'allaient pas mieux pour autant [\u2026] </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5070972\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Mes parents ont toujours tout sacrifi\u00e9 \u2014 leur famille, leur argent, leur temps, leur sant\u00e9, leur maison, et leurs relations \u2014 pour un meilleur avenir. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5070973\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Notre vie a chang\u00e9 quand ils ont ouvert une pizzeria, il y a 15 ans. Enfin, ils ont pu prendre un salaire et m\u00eame mettre de l'argent de c\u00f4t\u00e9 pour l'investir dans la communaut\u00e9. Mes parents ont finalement eu un r\u00e9gime de retraite. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5070974\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Maintenant [\u2026], les lib\u00e9raux veulent p\u00e9naliser mes parents alors qu'ils ont travaill\u00e9 toute leur vie. [Ils] les accusent m\u00eame de profiter des \u00e9chappatoires fiscales [\u2026] </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5070975\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Cela ne me semble pas juste. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"5070976\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il n'y a rien de juste dans la proposition des lib\u00e9raux sur l'\u00e9quit\u00e9 fiscale.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2017/10/24/arnold-viersen-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/arnold-viersen/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4303/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "9730883",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": "D\u00e9clarations De D\u00e9put\u00e9s"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Taxation",
"fr": "La fiscalit\u00e9"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2017/10/24/",
"related": {
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}
}