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{
"time": "2023-04-18 10:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Gord Johns (Courtenay\u2014Alberni, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Gord Johns (Courtenay\u2014Alberni, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7696167\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I work with my colleague on many different items, like mental health, pensions and whatnot. We know that one-third of single women in this country are living in poverty. It is completely unacceptable. We know that pensions need to be increased.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7696168\" data-originallang=\"en\">One thing he talked about in his speech was around British pensioners who have retired in Canada. Public servants who worked in Britain and who receive a pension are restricted. They do not get the rate of inflation increase that Canadians get when they retire in Britain, for example. It is basically pension theft. It is leaving many British expats who live in Canada vulnerable to the costs of inflation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7696169\" data-originallang=\"en\">Can my colleague speak about the importance of Canada and the British government working on a collective agreement? When we come forward with a trade deal, we want to ensure those conversations are part of it so that we do not leave British pensioners here in Canada in poverty, and so that we call out the British government for abandoning its own citizens.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7696167\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je travaille avec mon coll\u00e8gue sur de nombreux sujets, comme la sant\u00e9 mentale, les pensions, et d\u2019autres sujets. Nous savons qu\u2019un tiers des femmes c\u00e9libataires de ce pays vivent dans la pauvret\u00e9. C\u2019est tout \u00e0 fait inacceptable. Nous savons que les pensions doivent \u00eatre augment\u00e9es.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7696168\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans son discours, mon coll\u00e8gue a notamment parl\u00e9 des retrait\u00e9s britanniques qui ont pris leur retraite au Canada. Des restrictions s'appliquent aux fonctionnaires qui ont travaill\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni et qui re\u00e7oivent une pension. Ils ne b\u00e9n\u00e9ficient pas de l\u2019indexation au co\u00fbt de la vie comme les Canadiens qui prennent leur retraite au Royaume-Uni, par exemple. Il s\u2019agit en fait d\u2019un vol de pension. De nombreux expatri\u00e9s britanniques vivant au Canada sont ainsi vuln\u00e9rables \u00e0 la hausse du co\u00fbt de la vie caus\u00e9e par l'inflation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7696169\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mon coll\u00e8gue peut-il nous parler de l\u2019importance pour le Canada et le gouvernement britannique de travailler sur une convention? D\u00e8s qu'il sera question de conclure un accord commercial, nous devrons veiller \u00e0 ce que ce sujet soit abord\u00e9 afin de ne pas laisser dans la pauvret\u00e9 les retrait\u00e9s britanniques qui vivent au Canada et de d\u00e9noncer le gouvernement britannique pour avoir abandonn\u00e9 ses citoyens.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2023/4/18/gord-johns-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/gord-johns/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4237/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "12139377",
"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/2023/4/18/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2023%2F4%2F18%2F"
}
}