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This is a single
speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2023-06-01 17:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Randy Hoback",
"fr": "M. Randy Hoback"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7826059\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I understand the challenges the hon. member must face in the north and that the carbon tax must present to her. However, the reality is that those companies are spending billions of dollars on carbon sequestration. They are changing their businesses to get to net zero. That is where those profits are going. Those profits are going to pension funds that get paid out to people right across Canada, like the CPP. Those profits are distributed to the economy in different ways through investment and reinvestment in Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7826060\" data-originallang=\"en\">Saying we are going to grab them and give them to the government is a no go, sorry, because the government is horrible with money. I would rather let companies pay it out in dividends and pay it out in pension plans and have it distributed to Canadians that way. I would rather see them spend some money on the environment than give it to the federal government.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7826059\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je comprends les d\u00e9fis auxquels la d\u00e9put\u00e9e fait face dans le Nord et que la taxe sur le carbone lui pr\u00e9sente. Toutefois, la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 est que les entreprises d\u00e9pensent des milliards de dollars pour la s\u00e9questration du carbone. Elles modifient leurs activit\u00e9s pour devenir carboneutres. C'est l\u00e0 que vont les profits. Les profits vont aux fonds de pension qui sont vers\u00e9s aux gens partout au Canada, comme le R\u00e9gime de pension du Canada. Les profits sont distribu\u00e9s \u00e0 l'\u00e9conomie de diff\u00e9rentes mani\u00e8res gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 des investissements et des r\u00e9investissements au Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7826060\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je suis d\u00e9sol\u00e9, mais nous ne pouvons pas dire que nous allons faire main basse sur ces profits et les donner au gouvernement, parce que le gouvernement ne sait pas g\u00e9rer l'argent. Je pr\u00e9f\u00e9rerais que les entreprises le distribuent sous forme de dividendes et de plans de retraite et qu'elles le distribuent aux Canadiens de cette mani\u00e8re. Je pr\u00e9f\u00e9rerais qu'elles d\u00e9pensent de l'argent pour l'environnement plut\u00f4t que de le donner au gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2023/6/1/randy-hoback-6/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/randy-hoback/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1067/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "12254890",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Carbon Tax",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 La taxe sur le carbone"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2023/6/1/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2023%2F6%2F1%2F"
}
}