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House Hansard - 119

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
October 27, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 119 - Oct/27/22
Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie (Joliette, BQ)
  • Oct/27/22 4:39:05 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-31 
Madam Speaker, a child in Quebec will receive about half of what a child outside Quebec will receive. There is considerable inequity. Why? It is because we already pay for dental care in Quebec. Quebec taxpayers already pay once for children's dental care and they are going to pay a second time for the federal program, even though Quebec will only receive half the money handed out elsewhere. That is really inequitable. We could have fixed this when this bill was being studied in committee. The government just bulldozed it through by imposing a super closure motion. We could also have fixed the rental assistance component. Why is the government refusing to accommodate Quebec?
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Context: House Hansard - 119 - Oct/27/22
Mrs. Caroline Desbiens (Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île d'Orléans—Charlevoix, BQ)
  • Oct/27/22 5:55:19 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-31 
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to hear my colleague defend the poor. If she thinks that she is the only one from a poor background, I will tell her right away that artists are used to living on $20,000 or less a year. I know what I am talking about. We have many artists in Quebec. We obviously listened carefully to her speech. The same cannot be said of my colleagues when my colleague from Joliette was speaking. At any rate, the best way to understand a situation that seems inequitable is to imagine oneself in the other person's situation. If my colleague put herself in the place of Quebeckers, who are being denied part of what they are entitled to, I think she would probably react just as strongly as she just did. What does she think of Quebec's situation? How does she see it, knowing that there is a member from Quebec in her party?
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