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House Hansard - 171

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 22, 2023 01:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 171 - Mar/22/23
Mr. Todd Doherty (Cariboo—Prince George, CPC)
  • Mar/22/23 5:32:41 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, our hon. colleague is a good soldier. He goes on and on and quotes lots of things. I would like to quote something from the media that is breaking news, and perhaps he would like to check his phone. The breaking news right now is that a “Liberal MP...secretly advised Chinese diplomat in 2021 to delay freeing Two Michaels”. I would like to ask my hon. colleague for a comment on that.
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Context: House Hansard - 171 - Mar/22/23
Mr. Todd Doherty (Cariboo—Prince George, CPC)
  • Mar/22/23 8:39:30 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate our colleague across the way, but I do not think that he understands that every time they raise the costs for small business owners of doing business, there is a direct impact. Restaurants Canada has said that this tax increase would cost individual restaurants more than $30,000 per year on average. That is one staff member. That is a full-time equivalent or maybe a couple of part-time employees. These small business owners are going to have to make decisions on whether they hire students or more staff. These tax increases cost small business owners. They are so out of touch. Has this colleague ever run a small business? Does he understand that small business owners are now making decisions on whether they are going to keep the doors open or they are going to close? A tax increase of this magnitude is not just a cent on one can of beer; it has a very real human cost—
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Context: House Hansard - 171 - Mar/22/23
Mr. Todd Doherty (Cariboo—Prince George, CPC)
  • Mar/22/23 9:09:55 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, 88% of the beer Canadians enjoy is brewed and created here in Canada by over 20,000 hard-working Canadians employed by these breweries, whether microbreweries or large breweries like Pacific Western Brewing in my town of Prince George. They are worried. The unions are worried and labour is worried. The breweries are saying they cannot handle a 6% tax increase. I want to ask if my hon. colleague is hearing the same in his riding as we are hearing, if the breweries are saying the same things. Maybe he has some more stories he can tell us about how these breweries are just worried about the next day and whether or not they are going to be able to keep the doors open.
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Context: House Hansard - 171 - Mar/22/23
Mr. Todd Doherty (Cariboo—Prince George, CPC)
  • Mar/22/23 9:21:43 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I appreciate our hon. colleague's speech, because for the first four minutes he entered into Hansard the names all the microbreweries and breweries in his riding. I think he owes a care package to all member who are currently present in the House. When the escalator tax was introduced and brought in back in 2017 before COVID, Finance Canada officials testified at committee that the Liberals did no modelling on how this tax would impact small businesses and breweries all across our country. Why does the government continue its mismanagement of monetary policy? Is the member hearing the same as what we are hearing? Perhaps he has some suggestions on what the government can do to scrap the tax and make things more affordable for Canadians.
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