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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2020-11-03 16:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Ren\u00e9 Arseneault",
"fr": "M. Ren\u00e9 Arseneault"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6325680\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for this excellent question.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6325681\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I would say that Canada's entire financial services sector has been listening to businesses during the COVID-19 crisis. Based on the Parliament of Canada's suggestions, many credit unions offered to suspend or defer required payments. Canadian banks and credit unions have been very co-operative.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6325682\" data-originallang=\"fr\">That is an excellent question about credit cards. This problem has been around for a long time, but during the COVID-19 crisis, businesses were able to benefit from government measures like the Canada emergency wage subsidy, the Canada emergency commercial rent assistance program, the Canada emergency business account and the regional relief and recovery fund. Businesses saw that we were there and they welcomed the assistance provided by the federal government.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6325680\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je remercie mon coll\u00e8gue de cette excellente question.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6325681\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Je dirais que tous les services financiers du Canada se sont mis \u00e0 l'\u00e9coute des entreprises pendant la crise de la COVID-19. Suivant les suggestions du Parlement canadien, beaucoup de soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de cr\u00e9dit ont offert de suspendre ou de reporter les paiements requis. Les banques et les soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de cr\u00e9dit canadiennes ont fait montre d'une grande collaboration.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6325682\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Cette question par rapport aux cartes de cr\u00e9dit est excellente. Le probl\u00e8me existe depuis longtemps, mais les entreprises ont pu b\u00e9n\u00e9ficier pendant la crise de la COVID-19 de mesures gouvernementales comme la Subvention salariale d'urgence du Canada, l'Aide d'urgence du Canada au loyer commercial, le Compte d'urgence pour les entreprises canadiennes ou le Fonds d'aide et de relance r\u00e9gionale. Les entreprises ont vu que nous \u00e9tions l\u00e0 et ont bien r\u00e9agi \u00e0 l'aide qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 fournie par le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2020/11/3/rene-arseneault-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/rene-arseneault/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4297/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10989971",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Consequences of the pandemic on Canadian workers and businesses",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 Les cons\u00e9quences de la pand\u00e9mie pour les entreprises et travailleurs canadiens"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2020/11/3/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2020%2F11%2F3%2F"
}
}