Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2025-06-09 11:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Jasraj Hallan",
        "fr": "Jasraj Hallan"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8841742\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my great colleague, who is a great pancake-flipper when he helps out at my Stampede breakfast every single year. Not only his daughter but his granddaughter lives in my riding. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8841743\" data-originallang=\"en\">I will answer his question in a different way, with my own personal experience. I came from small business. We were home builders before this. We were building homes at a time when there was a common-sense Conservative government. We had lower taxes, and we saw an energy industry that was supported, which meant that more houses were being built and more people were moving to Canada. There was more competition, and because more was getting built in this country, there were good, powerful paycheques. What did that do? It helped the small businesses. We used to run an after-school program for at-risk youth. We took zero dollars from any government, because it was funded by small businesses. Small businesses support their communities; they always want to give back. That is why we need to support small businesses. </p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8841742\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je tiens \u00e0 remercier mon excellent coll\u00e8gue, qui sait tr\u00e8s bien retourner les cr\u00eapes lorsqu'il m'aide \u00e0 pr\u00e9parer le petit-d\u00e9jeuner du Stampede chaque ann\u00e9e. Sa fille mais aussi sa petite-fille vivent dans ma circonscription. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8841743\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je vais r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 sa question diff\u00e9remment, en me basant sur ma propre exp\u00e9rience. Je viens du monde des petites entreprises. Nous \u00e9tions auparavant des constructeurs d'habitations. Nous construisions des logements \u00e0 l'\u00e9poque o\u00f9 nous \u00e9tions dirig\u00e9s par un gouvernement conservateur qui faisait preuve de bon sens. Les taxes \u00e9taient moins \u00e9lev\u00e9es et l'industrie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique b\u00e9n\u00e9ficiait d'un soutien. Nous construisions donc plus de logements et plus de personnes s'installaient au Canada. Il y avait plus de concurrence et, \u00e9tant donn\u00e9 que l'on construisait plus de logements, les salaires \u00e9taient bons et \u00e9lev\u00e9s. Quelles ont \u00e9t\u00e9 les cons\u00e9quences? Les petites entreprises en ont b\u00e9n\u00e9fici\u00e9. Nous menions un programme parascolaire pour les jeunes \u00e0 risque. Nous ne recevions pas de fonds publics, car notre projet \u00e9tait financ\u00e9 par des petites entreprises. Celles\u2011ci soutiennent leur collectivit\u00e9; elles veulent toujours redonner \u00e0 leur collectivit\u00e9. C'est pourquoi nous devons soutenir les petites entreprises.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2025/6/9/jasraj-singh-hallan-4/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/jasraj-singh-hallan/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4809/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "13086918",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Business of Supply",
        "fr": "Travaux des subsides"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Food Inflation and Budgetary Policy",
        "fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 L'inflation alimentaire et les politiques budg\u00e9taires"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2025/6/9/",
    "related": {
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    }
}