Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2021-04-20 17:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Kevin Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Queen\u2019s Privy Council for Canada and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.)",
        "fr": "M. Kevin Lamoureux (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire du pr\u00e9sident du Conseil priv\u00e9 de la Reine pour le Canada et ministre des Affaires intergouvernementales et du leader du gouvernement \u00e0 la Chambre des communes, Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6630830\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I want to pick up on what has been mentioned by a number of members from the opposition regarding the issue of seniors who are 75. I see the announcement in the budget as a very strong positive. In the last federal election, we made a commitment to do exactly what we are doing in this budget. We are fulfilling an election promise in which we said that we were going to do this for seniors 75 and up. Now we have opposition members criticizing us for fulfilling an election commitment.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6630831\" data-originallang=\"en\">I would remind my colleagues to reflect on the first few years of this government, when we actually increased the guaranteed income supplement for all seniors 65 and over. We literally took hundreds of seniors out of poverty from Winnipeg North, not to mention the thousands across the country.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6630832\" data-originallang=\"en\">I wonder if the member might reflect on whether he believes it was important for us to fulfill that commitment that we made to seniors 75 and over. We said that is what we would do, and it is exactly what we did.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6630830\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, j'aimerais revenir sur ce qu'un certain nombre de d\u00e9put\u00e9s de l'opposition ont dit \u00e0 propos des mesures destin\u00e9es aux a\u00een\u00e9s de 75 ans et plus. Personnellement, je consid\u00e8re qu'il s'agit d'une excellente nouvelle. Pendant la derni\u00e8re campagne f\u00e9d\u00e9rale, nous avons promis de faire exactement ce que nous faisons avec ce budget, puisque, d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e0 l'\u00e9poque, nous disions que c'est ce que nous ferions pour les Canadiens de 75 ans et plus. C'est rendu que l'opposition nous critique parce que nous tenons nos promesses \u00e9lectorales.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6630831\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'invite mes coll\u00e8gues \u00e0 se rem\u00e9morer les premi\u00e8res ann\u00e9es de notre mandat. Nous avons bonifi\u00e9 le Suppl\u00e9ment de revenu garanti pour tous les a\u00een\u00e9s de 65 ans et plus, ce qui a permis de sortir des centaines d'a\u00een\u00e9s de Winnipeg-Nord de la pauvret\u00e9 \u2014 je n'exag\u00e8re pas \u2014, et des milliers d'autres partout au pays. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6630832\" data-originallang=\"en\">Qu'en pense le d\u00e9put\u00e9: \u00e9tait-ce important que nous honorions la promesse que nous avions faite aux a\u00een\u00e9s de 75 ans et plus? Nous avions dit que c'est ce que nous ferions, et c'est ce que nous avons fait.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2021/4/20/kevin-lamoureux-8/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/kevin-lamoureux/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4032/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "11248543",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "The Budget",
        "fr": "Le budget"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Financial Statement of Minister of Finance",
        "fr": "L'expos\u00e9 financier de la ministre des Finances"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2021/4/20/",
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    }
}