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{
"time": "2018-02-09 11:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Don Davies (Vancouver Kingsway, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Don Davies (Vancouver Kingsway, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5257850\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, speaking of unfairness, the Liberals' medical cannabis tax is misconceived, damaging to public health, and unfair. Patients already pay sales tax on their medical cannabis, which is not eligible for reimbursement under most insurance plans. Now the current government wants to add an excise tax. Therefore, patients will be forced to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars each month for their medicine or choose a riskier option, like an opioid, because it is more affordable. That is perverse. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5257851\" data-originallang=\"en\">With budget 2018 upon us, will the Liberals listen to patients and scrap their medical cannabis tax?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5257850\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, parlant d'injustice, la taxe des lib\u00e9raux sur le cannabis m\u00e9dical est peu judicieuse, pr\u00e9judiciable pour la sant\u00e9 publique et injuste. Les patients paient d\u00e9j\u00e0 des taxes sur le cannabis m\u00e9dical, qui n'est pas admissible \u00e0 un remboursement aupr\u00e8s de la plupart des compagnies d'assurance. Maintenant, le gouvernement actuel veut ajouter une taxe d'assise. Donc, les patients seront contraints de d\u00e9penser des centaines, voire des milliers de dollars chaque mois pour le cannabis qu'ils consomment \u00e0 des fins m\u00e9dicales, ou de choisir un autre m\u00e9dicament plus risqu\u00e9, comme un opio\u00efde vendu sur ordonnance, car celui-ci est plus abordable. C'est inacceptable.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5257851\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme le budget de 2018 sera pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 sous peu, les lib\u00e9raux \u00e9couteront-ils les patients, et renonceront-ils \u00e0 leur taxe sur le cannabis consomm\u00e9 \u00e0 des fins m\u00e9dicales?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2018/2/9/don-davies-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/don-davies/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1007/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "9965574",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Marijuana",
"fr": "La marijuana"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2018/2/9/",
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}
}