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House Hansard - 150

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
January 31, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 150 - Jan/31/23
Mrs. Tracy Gray
  • Jan/31/23 10:34:56 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-35 
Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the government does not have any money. The government takes money from its citizens and then gives it back, and so the scenario is in fact playing out as the member has said. The government is hand-picking who it is giving the money back to. In fact that person maybe does not have access to a lot of child care facilities where they live in a rural area. Absolutely, because the government is hand-picking who it is going to be giving this money back to.
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Context: House Hansard - 150 - Jan/31/23
Mrs. Stephanie Kusie
  • Jan/31/23 12:48:56 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-35 
Quite frankly, Madam Speaker, I do not think that. I am from Alberta, so what Ottawa does with the money we send it is not our problem at the moment, but I hope it will be someday. My colleague also talked about the number of child care spaces. That is a problem. I think this program will result in more problems with spaces. Lots of parents are going to want a space, but there will not be enough workers for all those spaces. I think there is a problem with the money and how it is distributed as well as with the number of child care spaces.
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Context: House Hansard - 150 - Jan/31/23
Mrs. Stephanie Kusie
  • Jan/31/23 12:50:29 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-35 
Madam Speaker, I do not know. There is a lot on television and in movies about power struggles where someone gives someone money and the person who receives the money usually has to do whatever the person who is giving the money says. I think that would qualify here as well. It is not as simple as that. It is nice to think it would be like that, but it is not. Someone is giving the money and the money has strings, and that is the way it is with the government.
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