Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2024-06-18 18:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Don Davies",
        "fr": "M. Don Davies"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8508354\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, there is a lot to that question. I would say to Canadians that this is not their fathers' Conservative Party, but a mean-spirited, fact-free, Donald Trump-influenced party that has reduced politics to slogans. I call it \u201cnursery rhyme politics\u201d or \u201cbumper sticker politics\u201d, where Conservatives take complex, serious issues in this country and reduce them to a jingle. That is not going to work.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8508355\" data-originallang=\"en\">I think the Mulroney government may have had different policy ideas than my party, but it was serious about the issues of the day, which is why it increased the capital gains inclusion rate in this country. I have not heard my Conservative colleagues say a word about that. They look down at their shoes as soon as I raise the issue, because they cannot explain why their party raised the capital gains inclusion rate.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8508356\" data-originallang=\"en\">Of course, the reason it did that back then was that in the 1980s, I think all parties in the House were concerned about tax fairness because we paid attention to the Carter commission and the facts as established by a royal commission; we were not whipping up division and making up false numbers that do not make any sense. However, Canadians know the answer; most Canadians know that they are not going to be selling buildings and making capital gains over a quarter of a million dollars every year, like the Conservative colleagues' wealthy benefactors do, so we will know which party will support good tax policy in this country.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8508354\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, cette question englobe beaucoup de choses. Je dirais aux Canadiens qu'il ne s'agit pas du Parti conservateur de leurs p\u00e8res, mais d'un parti mesquin, d\u00e9tach\u00e9 des faits et influenc\u00e9 par Donald Trump, qui a r\u00e9duit la politique \u00e0 des slogans. Les conservateurs font de la politique sensationnaliste avec leurs comptines et leurs slogans r\u00e9ducteurs face aux enjeux complexes et s\u00e9rieux de notre pays. Cela ne fonctionnera pas.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8508355\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le gouvernement Mulroney avait peut-\u00eatre des id\u00e9es politiques diff\u00e9rentes de celles de mon parti, mais il prenait au s\u00e9rieux les probl\u00e8mes du moment, et c'est pourquoi il a augment\u00e9 le taux d'inclusion des gains en capital au Canada. Je n'ai pas entendu mes coll\u00e8gues conservateurs dire un mot \u00e0 ce sujet. Ils regardent par terre d\u00e8s que je soul\u00e8ve cet argument, car ils sont incapables de nous expliquer pourquoi leur parti a augment\u00e9 le taux d'inclusion des gains en capital.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8508356\" data-originallang=\"en\">Bien s\u00fbr, la raison pour laquelle il a agi en ce sens \u00e0 l'\u00e9poque, c'est que, dans les ann\u00e9es 1980, tous les partis de la Chambre se pr\u00e9occupaient de l'\u00e9quit\u00e9 fiscale. Ils \u00e9taient conscients des faits \u00e9tablis par une commission royale, la commission Carter. Les d\u00e9put\u00e9s n'\u00e9taient pas en train de semer la division et d'inventer de faux calculs qui n'ont aucun sens. Toutefois, les Canadiens connaissent la r\u00e9ponse; la plupart d'entre eux savent qu'ils ne vendront pas d'immeubles et qu'ils ne r\u00e9aliseront pas de gains en capital de plus d'un quart de million de dollars chaque ann\u00e9e, comme le font les riches bienfaiteurs de mes coll\u00e8gues conservateurs, et nous saurons donc quel parti sera favorable \u00e0 une bonne politique fiscale dans notre pays.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2024/6/18/don-davies-5/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/don-davies/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1007/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "12837072",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Budget Implementation Act, 2024, No. 1",
        "fr": "Loi no 1 d'ex\u00e9cution du budget de 2024"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2024/6/18/",
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}