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House Hansard - 69

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 11, 2022 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 69 - May/11/22
Mr. Jagmeet Singh (Burnaby South, NDP)
  • May/11/22 2:35:28 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are paying $2 or more per litre at the pumps. People are hurting. Families are hurting. At the same time, big oil and gas companies are posting huge profits, in some cases record profits. We also know that the government has seen an increase in revenues. Will the Prime Minister take the side of people, tax the excess profits of these companies and reinvest that into the pockets of Canadians by increasing the child benefit and the GST credit by $500 each?
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Context: House Hansard - 69 - May/11/22
Mr. Jagmeet Singh (Burnaby South, NDP)
  • May/11/22 2:36:49 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, people are struggling. They are paying nearly two dollars a litre for gas. Meanwhile, Imperial Oil is making its best profits in 30 years. Big businesses are making more more, while ordinary people pay the price. Will the Prime Minister tax big companies' excess profits and put the money back into Canadians' pockets?
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Context: House Hansard - 69 - May/11/22
Mr. Gord Johns (Courtenay—Alberni, NDP)
  • May/11/22 4:48:05 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Madam Speaker, maybe my colleague, the government House leader, could speak about the sense of urgency. Cultural workers and artists suffered the most under the pandemic. Many of them could not operate at all for two years, and many of them could not even access the programs that were offered to them. When people have zero revenue coming in, the wage subsidy does not help them, nor the rent assistance program. The sense of urgency is real. In the meantime, the big web giants had record profits. They took all the gas out. There was a massive economic leakage happening in our country. Maybe the House leader could talk about how critical it is that we plug the economic leakage to the big web giants and that we get to this work rapidly and quickly and get this to committee.
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Context: House Hansard - 69 - May/11/22
Mr. Peter Julian (New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP)
  • May/11/22 9:30:36 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Mr. Speaker, first off, I would like to wish the House leader of the official opposition a very happy birthday. We are glad he is with us today in this debate right until midnight. That is quite a way to celebrate a birthday. I wanted to ask my colleague a question. The web giants are making record profits, crazy profits even. Musicians, however, lost $3 billion during the pandemic. In general, Canadian musicians lost almost 80% of their income. On the one hand, we have web giants making huge profits, and, on the other, we have musicians and other Canadian artists who create content getting peanuts. What does this bill do to balance out the situation?
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