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Louise Chabot

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of the panel of chairs for the legislative committees
  • Bloc Québécois
  • Thérèse-De Blainville
  • Quebec
  • Voting Attendance: 68%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $122,743.44

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Context: House Hansard - 105 - Sep/29/22
Ms. Louise Chabot (Thérèse-De Blainville, BQ)
  • Sep/29/22 11:00:37 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, all week long, both in question period and during Government Orders, members have been comparing EI premiums to a payroll tax. On one side of the House, the Conservatives are saying the rates are terrible and have to be cancelled. On the other, the Liberals say rates have gone down by 30¢, or something like that, since they came to power. They are both wrong. For starters, employment insurance premiums are not a payroll tax. They are a safeguard. They are contributions to an insurance plan for people who lose their jobs. The Conservatives are hardly ones to talk: They were the first to pillage the EI fund. The current government is not one to talk either, because it is failing workers. Those contributions everyone is fighting over are not even available to 40% of people. Imagine my private insurance company telling me it can insure my house, but only two of the rooms, not the other three rooms. It makes no sense. Either we have a proper safety net or we do not. This is a premium to protect workers. Why did the government fail workers by putting an end to these emergency measures?
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