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Gabriel Ste-Marie

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Bloc Québécois
  • Joliette
  • Quebec
  • Voting Attendance: 68%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $132,165.46

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Context: House Hansard - 209 - Jun/8/23
Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie (Joliette, BQ)
  • Jun/8/23 8:12:48 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for his speech. Here is what I understand from his speech and the beginning of his last answer. He does not approve of a government urging people to make greater use of child care services rather than looking to other options, such as keeping children at home with a family member. Is he saying that, if a government provides some kind of support, it should be neutral in terms of choice and there should be just as great an incentive to keep children at home as there is to send them to child care?
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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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