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{
"time": "2025-11-26 16:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Gord Johns (Courtenay\u2014Alberni, NDP)",
"fr": "Gord Johns (Courtenay\u2014Alberni, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9018656\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Mr. Speaker, on its website, the College of Family Physicians of Canada cites that over 250,000 hours of family physicians' time, equivalent to about one million patient visits, is spent doing the disability tax credit form.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9018657\" data-originallang=\"en\"> In this budget, the Liberals would put $10 million aside to help pay for that. Would it not be easier if, instead of wasting $10 million of taxpayer money and a million hours of doctors' time, they would just honour somebody on disability in their province and territory to actually get the Canada disability benefit? It would be much simpler. Would it not make sense?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9018658\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Why do they not do that? The Liberals know that people do not have the energy and time, and they struggle to navigate the system, so they are denying them the benefits they deserve. Maybe my colleague can speak about this simple fix.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9018656\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, sur son site Web, le Coll\u00e8ge des m\u00e9decins de famille du Canada indique que les m\u00e9decins de famille consacrent plus de 250 000 heures, soit l'\u00e9quivalent d'environ 1 million de consultations, \u00e0 remplir le formulaire de demande de cr\u00e9dit d'imp\u00f4t pour personnes handicap\u00e9es.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9018657\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans le budget, les lib\u00e9raux pr\u00e9voient mettre de c\u00f4t\u00e9 10 millions de dollars pour aider \u00e0 payer ces frais. Au lieu de gaspiller 10 millions de dollars provenant des contribuables et 1 million d'heures du temps des m\u00e9decins, ne serait-il pas plus facile de simplement accorder la Prestation canadienne pour les personnes handicap\u00e9es \u00e0 toute personne reconnue comme handicap\u00e9e dans sa province ou son territoire? Ce serait beaucoup plus simple et beaucoup plus logique, non? </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9018658\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pourquoi les lib\u00e9raux ne le font-ils pas? Ils savent que les gens n'ont ni l'\u00e9nergie ni le temps n\u00e9cessaires et qu'ils ont du mal \u00e0 s'y retrouver dans le syst\u00e8me, alors ils leur refusent les prestations auxquelles ils ont droit. Mon coll\u00e8gue pourrait peut-\u00eatre dire ce qu'il pense de cette solution simple. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/11/26/gord-johns-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/gord-johns/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4237/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13267413",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Budget 2025 Implementation Act, No. 1",
"fr": "Loi no 1 d'ex\u00e9cution du budget de 2025"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/11/26/",
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}
}