Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2017-11-28 16:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Kevin Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.)",
        "fr": "M. Kevin Lamoureux (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire de la leader du gouvernement \u00e0 la Chambre des communes, Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5153680\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, just listening to the previous speaker reminds me of the degree to which the NDP love to put a spin on things. Let me just comment on a couple of the things the member across the way makes reference to.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5153681\" data-originallang=\"en\">He talked about the importance of a national pharmacare program. I believe there are many members of this chamber who are striving to achieve that. I know my colleagues, at least on the government benches, are very much committed to strive toward that. We have a Standing Committee on Health that is working on that and inviting stakeholders to its meetings. It was in the midst of a report when the NDP had a flash of an idea and took the idea from the standing committee and presented it inside the chamber, not allowing the standing committee to do its fine work. True to form, the NDP likes to think that if it is a good idea it has to be an NDP idea.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5153682\" data-originallang=\"en\">The member just made reference to the housing strategy, that it might be a big plan but that we are not spending money on it today. I inform the member across the way that we are spending money today. Every year, the national government spends hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidizing national housing. However, this is historic because this is the first time we are getting the type of money we are seeing invested not only for today but into the future for a national housing strategy. Instead of at times trying to recognize the fine work the government is doing, the NDP tends to navel gaze and wants to look at where it can criticize and how it can say it is better than the government.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5153683\" data-originallang=\"en\">The member talked about tax fairness. One of my favourite lines is that the NDP likes to come across as if it thinks the rich and corporations should be taxed and the money given to the poor. That is the standard line that it likes to say. When I was in the provincial Manitoba legislature, where the NDP was in government for far too many years, it actually reduced corporate taxes from 16.5% to 12%. That was the NDP in government in the province of Manitoba\u2014</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5153680\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, les propos de l'intervenant pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent me rappellent \u00e0 quel point les n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrates aiment tourner les choses \u00e0 leur avantage. Je donne quelques exemples.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5153681\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a parl\u00e9 de l'importance d'un r\u00e9gime national d'assurance-m\u00e9dicaments. Je crois que c'est un objectif pour de nombreux d\u00e9put\u00e9s. Je sais \u00e0 tout le moins que mes coll\u00e8gues minist\u00e9riels sont absolument r\u00e9solus \u00e0 faire de ce programme une r\u00e9alit\u00e9. Le Comit\u00e9 permanent de la sant\u00e9 y travaille et convoque des parties int\u00e9ress\u00e9es \u00e0 ses r\u00e9unions. C'est en plein milieu de la cr\u00e9ation d'un rapport que le NPD a eu un \u00e9clair de g\u00e9nie et a pris l'id\u00e9e du comit\u00e9 pour la pr\u00e9senter \u00e0 la Chambre, plut\u00f4t que de permettre au comit\u00e9 de faire son excellent travail. Fid\u00e8le \u00e0 son habitude, le NPD aime s'approprier toutes les bonnes id\u00e9es.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5153682\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 vient de parler de la strat\u00e9gie sur le logement. Il a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 qu'il s'agit peut-\u00eatre d'un grand projet, mais que nous ne d\u00e9penserons pas maintenant. Je signale au d\u00e9put\u00e9 que chaque ann\u00e9e, le gouvernement national d\u00e9pense des centaines de millions de dollars pour subventionner des logements dans l'ensemble du pays. Cependant, la strat\u00e9gie est sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent, car c'est la premi\u00e8re fois qu'autant d'argent est investi non seulement aujourd'hui, mais demain, dans le cadre d'une strat\u00e9gie nationale sur le logement. Plut\u00f4t que de parfois reconna\u00eetre le bon travail du gouvernement, le NPD a tendance \u00e0 se regarder le nombril, \u00e0 chercher des poux et \u00e0 trouver des fa\u00e7ons de dire qu'il est meilleur que le gouvernement. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5153683\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a parl\u00e9 d'\u00e9quit\u00e9 fiscale. L'une de rengaines du NPD que je pr\u00e9f\u00e8re est lorsqu'il se pr\u00e9sente comme le parti qui pense que les riches et les grandes soci\u00e9t\u00e9s devraient \u00eatre impos\u00e9s pour que l'argent soit distribu\u00e9 aux pauvres. C'est ce que les n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrates aiment bien r\u00e9p\u00e9ter. Pourtant, lorsque j'\u00e9tais \u00e0 l'Assembl\u00e9e l\u00e9gislative du Manitoba, o\u00f9 le NPD \u00e9tait au pouvoir depuis beaucoup trop longtemps, le parti a baiss\u00e9 les imp\u00f4ts des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s, les faisant passer de 16,5 % \u00e0 12 %. C'est ce qu'a fait le gouvernement n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrate du Manitoba... </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2017/11/28/kevin-lamoureux-11/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/kevin-lamoureux/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4032/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "9811224",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 2",
        "fr": "Loi no 2 d'ex\u00e9cution du budget de 2017"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2017/11/28/",
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