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House Hansard - 283

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 15, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 283 - Feb/15/24
Hon. Randy Boissonnault (Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages, Lib.)
  • Feb/15/24 2:29:24 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my colleague's advocacy on this important issue. We have spoken about the ongoing work of modernizing our EI system, and the government continues to make progress on this. As my colleague is aware, this particular issue is before the courts, but make no mistake: We are supporting families, parents and women. Let us look at the child benefit, at $10-a-day child care and at all of the improvements we have made to the EI system, making sure that parents have more access to the system. We are going to deliver for families and for women. That is what we are here to do and it is exactly what we are going to do.
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Context: House Hansard - 283 - Feb/15/24
Hon. Anita Anand
  • Feb/15/24 3:04:47 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it does not make sense. It is not common sense to deny climate change and to cut money from Canadian families.
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Context: House Hansard - 283 - Feb/15/24
Ms. Jenny Kwan (Vancouver East, NDP)
  • Feb/15/24 4:00:58 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I also want to thank the member for sharing his personal family story with us. It takes a lot of courage to do that, and I really do appreciate it. In part of his speech he also noted that his family is well resourced, with heroes in his family as well as with financial resources. It is fantastic, to be able to support a family member in this way. With that said, in my community of Vancouver East we have many family members who do not have those kinds of resources, so what I fear is that people might look at MAID as an option, and of course it is not an option. When we need to do is ensure that the proper resources are in place to support people through difficult times. To that end, my question is this: For the government to consider all of these issues, how important is it to ensure that all families have access to resources to properly support them through difficult times?
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Context: House Hansard - 283 - Feb/15/24
Hon. John McKay
  • Feb/15/24 4:02:10 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I was trying to make the point that we are a well-resourced family living in an affluent community with access to the best, and I am perfectly cognizant that thousands, and literally millions, of Canadians are not. In that case, they would not be able to explore all of the other options that well-resourced families can. I take the member's point entirely, and arguably, again, that is a good reason this should not be accessible for people with mental illness under the present circumstances.
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