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House Hansard - 66

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 6, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 66 - May/6/22
Mr. Richard Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay, NDP)
  • May/6/22 11:45:51 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, Canadian businesses pay huge rates on their credit card transactions, almost twice as much as fees in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. In budget 2022, the government admitted that Canada's high credit card fees have been hurting small businesses, which were already hurt by the pandemic. The NDP has been calling for lower fees since back in Jack Layton's campaign over 10 years ago, and despite recognizing the problem, the Liberals keep talking about more talks. When will the Liberals actually crack down on excessive credit card transaction fees and help small businesses?
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Context: House Hansard - 66 - May/6/22
Mr. Terry Beech (Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Lib.)
  • May/6/22 11:46:33 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, small businesses are the backbone of the Canadian economy. Before the pandemic, we cut their taxes from 11% to 9%. During the pandemic, we had their backs: We supported 450,000 businesses and 5.3 million Canadian workers. Now we are going even further by targeting a new small business tax. We are working on reducing credit card fees. This is good news for small business and great news for Canadians and the Canadian economy.
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Context: House Hansard - 66 - May/6/22
Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie (Joliette, BQ)
  • May/6/22 11:54:20 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, the government is once again punishing our aerospace sector. It is proposing yet another tax on this sector through the luxury tax on private jets set out in its budget bill. The government wants companies to turn over 20% of their total sales and get reimbursed many months later if the aircraft ends up being exported. We are talking about making companies advance the government half a billion dollars. Will the minister fix this situation and stop burdening our businesses?
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Context: House Hansard - 66 - May/6/22
Mrs. Sherry Romanado (Longueuil—Charles-LeMoyne, Lib.)
  • May/6/22 12:00:14 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, businesses in my province depend on tourism and the pandemic has had a devastating impact on them. There is some good news—
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