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House Hansard - 31

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 15, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 31 - Feb/15/22
Mr. Kody Blois
  • Feb/15/22 5:45:32 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-12 
Mr. Speaker, it is a great opportunity for me to differentiate in what he just said. I said in those remarks, and of course he has the Hansard in front of him, that it is an opportunity to look at private delivery while keeping it under a first-payer model, which means that the government, the public system, continues to pay for the cost. However, how do we look at innovative ways to use the private sector to create efficiencies in the actual delivery of services? It is not about the size of one's wallet; it is about how we can use the ingenuity of the private sector in concert with the public service to deliver services to low-income seniors, to people who need them. It would not be on the basis of their wallet. It would be under a first-payer system, but using that ingenuity to deliver services. I think it is quite clear.
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Context: House Hansard - 31 - Feb/15/22
Mr. Eric Melillo
  • Feb/15/22 7:31:15 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-12 
Mr. Speaker, I appreciate that question from my colleague because it is something I was hoping to mention in my speech, but I neglected to do so. It was very difficult for seniors in my riding. Given that we are living in a rural northern area, there are limited services. It was more difficult for many seniors to be able to connect to government sites through the Internet. Of course, CRA phone lines were jammed with calls from many seniors across the country, so it was quite difficult, and being in the northern remote region of the Kenora district made it that much more difficult.
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Context: House Hansard - 31 - Feb/15/22
Mr. Sébastien Lemire (Abitibi—Témiscamingue, BQ)
  • Feb/15/22 10:56:34 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-12 
Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from Nunavut for her eloquent speech. I would like to hear what she has to say about the services that the Canada Revenue Agency and Service Canada provide to the Inuit and indigenous peoples. I understand that there is a serious lack of communication from these departments and that many errors could otherwise have been avoided. How does she propose that the government improve service delivery, especially to the first nations?
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