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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2019-04-30 17:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Scott Duvall (Hamilton Mountain, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Scott Duvall (Hamilton Mountain, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5884214\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, there is one important issue happening across Canada, and that is with respect to bankruptcy and insolvency. In the last election, the Liberals said they would fix that. I know the member did not mention it in her speech, but during bankruptcy protection, the first thing that happens to the majority of people is their severance and vacation pays are taken away. Then, if the company is insolvent and has to declare bankruptcy because it is in a deficit, all the pensioners lose. Therefore, this is a huge issue.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5884215\" data-originallang=\"en\"> The Liberal government said that it was going to fix it. This was the last time it could try to do that in its budget and all it did was a bit of window dressing. There is nothing in it that states that pensioners would have their pensions protected either as a secured creditor or in some type of guaranteed pension fund. I want to know why this was omitted and what the government plans on doing about it.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5884214\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, partout au Canada, on conna\u00eet un probl\u00e8me important: les faillites et l'insolvabilit\u00e9. Durant la derni\u00e8re campagne \u00e9lectorale, les lib\u00e9raux avaient promis de r\u00e9gler ce probl\u00e8me. La d\u00e9put\u00e9e n'a pas mentionn\u00e9 ce point dans son allocution, mais, quand une entreprise est plac\u00e9e sous la protection de la Loi sur la faillite, on enl\u00e8ve tout d'abord \u00e0 la plupart des gens les indemnit\u00e9s de d\u00e9part et les paiements de cong\u00e9 annuels. Ensuite, si l'entreprise est insolvable et doit d\u00e9clarer faillite parce qu'elle est en d\u00e9ficit, tous les pensionn\u00e9s perdent leur fonds de retraite. C'est donc un probl\u00e8me \u00e9norme. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5884215\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral avait promis de le r\u00e9gler. Le budget \u00e0 l'\u00e9tude \u00e9tait sa derni\u00e8re occasion de le faire et il n'offre que du tape-\u00e0-l'oeil. Rien n'indique que les pensionn\u00e9s verraient leur fonds de pension prot\u00e9g\u00e9, que ce soit avec un cr\u00e9ancier garanti ou un genre de fonds de pension garanti. Je veux qu'on m'explique cette omission et ce que le gouvernement compte faire \u00e0 ce sujet. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2019/4/30/scott-duvall-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/scott-duvall/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4308/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10587332",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1",
"fr": "Loi no 1 d\u2019ex\u00e9cution du budget de 2019"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2019/4/30/",
"related": {
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}
}