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{
"time": "2018-11-01 12:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Pierre Poilievre",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Pierre Poilievre"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5626104\" data-originallang=\"en\">He had a lot more than one minute to ask his question, Madam Speaker.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5626105\" data-originallang=\"en\">On the first point, as I said at the outset, the tax-free saving account is not exclusively used by people with their annual income. It is used when major life events cause them to either have an inheritance or downsize their homes, because they no longer live in places where they have to climb stairs, and they want to put aside their money in a way that shelters it from high taxes by big government.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5626106\" data-originallang=\"en\">As for families, the previous Conservative government cut taxes by $30 billion, which the Parliamentary Budget Officer said overwhelmingly went to low and modest-income people who were better off and received more rewards as a result of their work. It is unfortunate that the Liberal government has targeted those same modest-income people with higher taxes and higher costs, a tendency that the Conservatives will reverse when we form government.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5626104\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il a eu beaucoup plus qu\u2019une minute pour poser sa question, madame la Pr\u00e9sidente. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5626105\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Sur le premier point, comme je l\u2019ai dit d\u00e8s le d\u00e9but, le compte d\u2019\u00e9pargne libre d\u2019imp\u00f4t n\u2019est pas utilis\u00e9 exclusivement par des personnes qui ont un revenu annuel. Il est utilis\u00e9 lorsque des \u00e9v\u00e9nements importants de la vie font qu\u2019elles touchent un h\u00e9ritage ou d\u00e9m\u00e9nagent dans une maison plus petite parce qu\u2019elles ne vivent plus l\u00e0 o\u00f9 elles doivent monter des escaliers et elles veulent mettre l\u2019argent de c\u00f4t\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019abri de l\u2019imp\u00f4t \u00e9lev\u00e9 pratiqu\u00e9 par un gouvernement tentaculaire.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5626106\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Quant aux familles, le gouvernement conservateur pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent a r\u00e9duit les imp\u00f4ts de 30 milliards de dollars, une r\u00e9duction qui, d\u2019apr\u00e8s le directeur parlementaire du budget, a essentiellement profit\u00e9 aux personnes \u00e0 faible revenu et \u00e0 revenu modeste qui se sont mieux tir\u00e9es d\u2019affaire et qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 mieux r\u00e9compens\u00e9es pour leur travail. Il est malheureux que le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral ait cibl\u00e9 ces m\u00eames personnes \u00e0 revenu modeste avec des imp\u00f4ts et des co\u00fbts plus \u00e9lev\u00e9s, une tendance que les conservateurs inverseront lorsque nous formerons le gouvernement. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2018/11/1/pierre-poilievre-6/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/pierre-poilievre/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4214/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10348015",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00c9manant Du Gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Budget Implementation Act, 2018 No. 2",
"fr": "Loi no 2 d'ex\u00e9cution du budget de 2018"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2018/11/1/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2018%2F11%2F1%2F"
}
}