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House Hansard - 21

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 1, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 21 - Feb/1/22
Ms. Bonita Zarrillo (Port Moody—Coquitlam, NDP)
  • Feb/1/22 4:20:02 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I have some nice memories from when I worked in the private sector. I called on Edson and Hinton regularly and have been in a lot of their small businesses in my time. I want to talk about salaries. Salaries must increase in Canada. I also want to talk about the importance of the care economy that has been highlighted during this pandemic, and the value of care work, which needs to be elevated and respected as much as society respects the resource economy. I want to talk specifically about employment right now for people living with a disability. The employment rate for persons with a disability fell from 24.8% all the way down to 13% at one point during this pandemic. We need to protect the income of the most vulnerable workers. Would the Conservatives support a guaranteed livable basic income for Canadians, starting with people with disabilities?
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Context: House Hansard - 21 - Feb/1/22
Ms. Bonita Zarrillo (Port Moody—Coquitlam, NDP)
  • Feb/1/22 5:06:04 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I want to talk again about the care economy and elevating the traditional work that belonged to women for many years. If the needed investments in health care transfers had been increased instead of cut by the Conservatives and then not restored by the Liberals, we would have had a stronger health support system to support COVID alongside cancer and pediatric surgeries, which cannot be done right now. If we do not invest in the care economy in a way that increases health care transfers, as the premiers are asking for, we will not be able to weather any other health crises. Do the Conservatives support greater health care transfers to the provinces?
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Context: House Hansard - 21 - Feb/1/22
Ms. Bonita Zarrillo (Port Moody—Coquitlam, NDP)
  • Feb/1/22 6:05:34 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, this throne speech is really shallow. After an election that cost over $600 million and a message to Canadians that a new mandate was needed, it seemed to be missing a lot. It missed getting pharmacare to communities and Canadians. It does little to address labour shortages, equity for persons with disabilities and equity for first nations, Métis and Inuit people. I share with the member who gave the speech tonight his feelings on five-dollar day care. Both of us benefited from it with our children. I am sure both of us agree on day care, but we certainly agree that this speech is empty. Would the member support some more push around the labour shortages, especially in our care economy, including for day care and health care transfers to the provinces?
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