Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2018-03-19 15:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Erin O'Toole (Durham, CPC)",
        "fr": "L\u2019hon. Erin O'Toole (Durham, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5310640\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I was in full flight, responding to some of the heckles from my friends in the Liberal Party on my comparison of this budget to the Liberal double-double. I said that it is the Liberal double-double, deficit and debt, and there is no roll up the rim to win for Canadian families. Studies have shown that 80% to 90% of middle-class families, the families they claim to be helping, are paying more under the Liberal government. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5310641\" data-originallang=\"en\">High deficits and high debt are connected with taxes. Taxes are already going up, and in many ways large deficits are deferring taxes to the future. The Liberal government seems to forget that it is going to continue to make our economy less and less competitive. The budget contained five mentions of NAFTA, with no funding attached to any of the industries that could be at risk. That includes those industries that the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a> did his speedy little steel town tour to because they almost blew the market access for steel and aluminum for Canadian workers.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5310642\" data-originallang=\"en\">I am going to spend my final few minutes on the Canada summer jobs, which dovetails nicely to the thousands of Canadians who have written condemning the Liberal government's approach to politicizing a summer jobs programs. It is in the budget at page 56, and states, \u201cA summer job helps students pay for their education, and gives them the work experience they need to find and keep a full-time job after they graduate.\u201d</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5310643\" data-originallang=\"en\">All members of Parliament know how impactful these programs are. They do great service-related events for communities and help students defer costs of their university or college education at the same time. It is a win. Service clubs are involved, as are seniors homes and faith organizations. All sides of this House have seen the great work that is done with this program. Never in the decades of operation of this program has there been a thought-police approach, where they are putting in a values screen. The Liberals did that because they wanted to exclude faith organizations from playing roles in their communities, even though the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a>'s sunshine photo ops with the Syrian refugees who first came to Canada were all coming through private sponsorship roots from faith organizations.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5310644\" data-originallang=\"en\">Excluding people in this way violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and violates the spirit of what the Canada summer jobs program is supposed to be about. We have heard from thousands of people who have written petitions. We have a vote tonight. For the Liberals who are listening, I would like them to use their conscience. Do they have freedom of thought in the Liberal government? It is time for them to stand up for all charter rights, and that includes freedom of conscience and religion, and recognizing that faith communities play important roles across Canada.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5310640\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'\u00e9tais en pleine envol\u00e9e, occup\u00e9 \u00e0 r\u00e9agir au chahut de mes amis lib\u00e9raux, qui n'appr\u00e9ciaient pas que je qualifie de \u00ab double-double \u00bb lib\u00e9ral leur budget. J'ai dit qu'il s'agit du double-double lib\u00e9ral \u2014 d\u00e9ficit et dette \u2014, mais que les familles canadiennes n'ont pas la chance de d\u00e9rouler le rebord pour gagner. Des \u00e9tudes ont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 que de 80 \u00e0 90 % des familles de la classe moyenne \u2014 les familles qu'ils pr\u00e9tendent aider \u2014 paient plus d'imp\u00f4t sous un gouvernement lib\u00e9ral.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5310641\" data-originallang=\"en\">Des d\u00e9ficits et une dette \u00e9lev\u00e9s sont intimement li\u00e9s aux imp\u00f4ts. Les imp\u00f4ts sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 en hausse et, \u00e0 bien des \u00e9gards, de lourds d\u00e9ficits ont pour effet de reporter des imp\u00f4ts. Le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral semble avoir oubli\u00e9 qu'il va continuer de rendre l'\u00e9conomie canadienne de moins en moins concurrentielle. Il est question de l'ALENA \u00e0 cinq reprises dans le budget, mais aucun financement n'est pr\u00e9vu pour l'une ou l'autre des industries dont l'avenir pourrait \u00eatre compromis. Il s'agit notamment des industries de l'acier et de l'aluminium, qui ont fait l'objet d'une petite tourn\u00e9e rapide de la part du <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> parce que les lib\u00e9raux ont failli \u00e9liminer l'acc\u00e8s au march\u00e9 dans les deux cas.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5310642\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je vais consacrer les derni\u00e8res minutes de mon intervention \u00e0 l'initiative Emplois d'\u00e9t\u00e9 Canada, ce qui cadre bien avec les lettres \u00e9crites par des milliers de Canadiens qui condamnent l'approche du gouvernement lib\u00e9ral qui politise le programme d'emplois d'\u00e9t\u00e9. Comme on peut le lire \u00e0 la page 60 du budget: \u00ab Un emploi d\u2019\u00e9t\u00e9 aide les \u00e9tudiants \u00e0 payer leurs \u00e9tudes et \u00e0 acqu\u00e9rir l\u2019exp\u00e9rience dont ils auront besoin pour trouver et conserver un emploi \u00e0 temps plein apr\u00e8s leurs \u00e9tudes. \u00bb</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5310643\" data-originallang=\"en\">Tous les d\u00e9put\u00e9s connaissent l'importance de cette initiative. Elle offre aux collectivit\u00e9s de bonnes activit\u00e9s li\u00e9es aux services tout en permettant aux \u00e9tudiants de payer leurs frais d'\u00e9ducation universitaire ou coll\u00e9giale. Tout le monde y gagne. Les clubs philanthropiques y participent de m\u00eame que les r\u00e9sidences pour personnes \u00e2g\u00e9es et des organisations confessionnelles. Les deux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de la Chambre ont constat\u00e9 l'excellent travail accompli dans le cadre de cette initiative. Jamais, dans les d\u00e9cennies qui ont suivi la mise en oeuvre de ce programme, une approche ax\u00e9e sur la police de la pens\u00e9e n'a \u00e9t\u00e9 adopt\u00e9e pour v\u00e9rifier les valeurs. Les lib\u00e9raux ont adopt\u00e9 une telle approche pour emp\u00eacher les organismes confessionnels de jouer un r\u00f4le dans leur collectivit\u00e9, m\u00eame si les premiers r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s syriens arriv\u00e9s au Canada et avec lesquelles le <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> a fait une belle s\u00e9ance de photos ont tous \u00e9t\u00e9 parrain\u00e9s par des organismes confessionnels dans le cadre du programme de parrainage priv\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5310644\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce genre d'exclusion constitue une violation de la Charte des droits et libert\u00e9s et est contraire \u00e0 l'esprit du programme Emplois d'\u00e9t\u00e9 Canada. Des milliers de gens ont sign\u00e9 des p\u00e9titions. Ce soir, nous allons tenir un vote. Aux lib\u00e9raux qui m'\u00e9coutent, je demande de suivre leur conscience. Les d\u00e9put\u00e9s du gouvernement lib\u00e9ral jouissent-ils de la libert\u00e9 de pens\u00e9e? Le moment est venu pour eux de d\u00e9fendre tous les droits garantis par la Charte \u2014 ce qui comprend la libert\u00e9 de conscience et de religion \u2014 et de reconna\u00eetre que les groupes confessionnels jouent un r\u00f4le important partout au pays. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2018/3/19/erin-otoole-5/",
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    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "10008762",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "The Budget",
        "fr": "Le budget"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Financial Statement of Minister of Finance",
        "fr": "L\u2019expos\u00e9 financier du ministre des Finances"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2018/3/19/",
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}