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House Hansard - 25

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 7, 2022 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 25 - Feb/7/22
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
  • Feb/7/22 2:28:54 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Ottawa has been under siege for 10 days. For five days, the Bloc Québécois has been proposing a crisis task force made up of the different levels of government and police forces. Now, five days later, the minister is finally announcing that he will create this task force. That is good news, but we have been waiting for it for a long time. Five days is a long time for the residents who are being bullied. I applaud the creation of this task force. Now, when will it meet? What is the deadline for the game plan? The clock is ticking.
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Context: House Hansard - 25 - Feb/7/22
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
  • Feb/7/22 2:30:01 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the problem with this government is that it is incapable of being proactive. This has been dragging on for 10 days. The City of Ottawa asks the government to intervene and it does nothing. The Ottawa police chief asks the government to intervene and it does nothing. The public asks the government to intervene and it does nothing. The Bloc Québécois makes proposals to the government and it does nothing. It took Mark Carney, the future leader of the Liberal Party, to write an op-ed in The Globe and Mail for the government to wake up and decide it was time to do something. That was enough for the government. Will the Prime Minister commit to ensuring that this whole thing is resolved by the end of the week?
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Context: House Hansard - 25 - Feb/7/22
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-239, An Act to amend An Act to authorize the making of certain fiscal payments to provinces, and to authorize the entry into tax collection agreements with provinces. He said: Mr. Speaker, it is well known that Quebeckers are the only ones who have to file two income tax returns come tax time. The desire for a single tax return administered by one specific government, in this case the Government of Quebec, is gaining traction. With this change, Quebeckers would only have to file one tax return, and one government would be responsible for collecting the other government's taxes. The idea of moving to a single tax collection system reached a pivotal point on May 15, 2018, when the Parti Québécois MNA for Sanguinet introduced a motion calling for a single tax return in the Quebec National Assembly. This motion was unanimously adopted. Subsequent polls showed that more than 70% of Quebeckers were in favour of a single tax return administered by the Government of Quebec. Lastly, the Research Institute on Self-Determination of Peoples and National Independence conducted a study in 2020 that showed that a single tax return in Quebec would save more than $425 million a year. This bill would finally allow Quebeckers to file a single return, which would be administered by the Government of Quebec.
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