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House Hansard - 172

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 23, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 172 - Mar/23/23
Ms. Lisa Marie Barron (Nanaimo—Ladysmith, NDP)
  • Mar/23/23 11:04:24 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, we are all seeing across Canada, and in my riding of Nanaimo—Ladysmith, a growing income gap happening. We see so many people struggling to make ends meet while ultrarich CEOs are making higher and higher excess profits every day. This is a big problem. I do see in here that a majority of parties came together and put together a recommendation I find to be quite good, and I wanted to ask the member about it. It reads: Take steps to close the growing income gap and generate revenue to fund poverty reduction programs by closing tax loopholes and ending the use of low-tax or non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes, taxing extreme wealth, and implementing a tax on excessive profits, including windfalls associated with the pandemic. What are the member's thoughts on this? What is the government doing today to begin implementing this very sound recommendation?
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Context: House Hansard - 172 - Mar/23/23
Ms. Lisa Marie Barron (Nanaimo—Ladysmith, NDP)
  • Mar/23/23 1:58:03 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-26 
Mr. Speaker, we know that threats to cybersecurity are increasing and are very concerning. We are far behind other countries in our capacity to respond to them. We have heard from civil liberty groups that the surveillance provisions in this bill could be quite problematic. Bearing in mind that we need to strengthen our cybersecurity, does the member have thoughts on the concerns or unknown ramifications that might result from this bill?
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