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House Hansard - 124

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 3, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 124 - Nov/3/22
Mr. Alexandre Boulerice (Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, NDP)
  • Nov/3/22 2:26:53 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, according to a recent report, the government is letting $30 billion a year slip through its fingers because of tax evasion. Thirty billion dollars is a huge amount of money. While searching through the Paradise papers, the program Enquête found an example—
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Context: House Hansard - 124 - Nov/3/22
Hon. Karina Gould (Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, Lib.)
  • Nov/3/22 2:31:04 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, let us talk about what the government is spending on. We are spending on the Canada dental benefit, which is going to support hundreds of thousands of Canadian children access to dental care. We are spending on the Canada housing benefit, which is helping the lowest-income Canadians pay their rent. To suggest that is inflationary is absolutely absurd. Then we are spending on the Canada child benefit, which is helping nine out of 10 Canadian families, thousands of dollars a month, so they can pay for basic necessities. We know what the Conservatives would cut if they were in power.
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