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House Hansard - 31

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 15, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 31 - Feb/15/22
Mr. Mario Beaulieu (La Pointe-de-l'Île, BQ)
  • Feb/15/22 5:26:44 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-12 
Madam Speaker, if I understood correctly, earlier, our Liberal colleague chastised the Bloc Québécois and the Conservatives for voting against the motion. We are not against the motion. What we were against was closure. I think my colleague explained it well. Bloc Québécois members sent letters to the Minister of Seniors before the election because we saw this coming. As of July 2021, seniors's GIS was reduced. These are the most vulnerable seniors, those who need the money the most, and they have not been reimbursed yet. The Liberals themselves created this emergency. Seniors should be reimbursed as soon as possible, and the law needs to say that CERB is no longer part of the GIS calculation. What are my colleague's thoughts on that? I think it is deplorable that the Liberals are giving us a hard time for saying no to closure when they are the ones who caused the problem.
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Context: House Hansard - 31 - Feb/15/22
Mr. Mario Beaulieu (La Pointe-de-l'Île, BQ)
  • Feb/15/22 5:59:42 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-12 
Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are the ones politicizing this issue. They could have taken action last year. We saw this coming, and we wrote to them in May, but they did nothing. Instead, they called a pointless election, and seniors paid the price. The Liberals are blaming us and invoking closure. We asked them to send the payment to seniors sooner, in March. The Liberals did not want to, so the payment will not go out until July. We will see if any payments and reimbursements go through before that. The sooner the better. Would my colleague comment on the fact that the Liberals are about to create two classes of seniors: those 75 and over and those aged 65 to 74? That second group gets nothing. We want pensions for all seniors increased by $110 per month, which can happen over two or three years.
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