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House Hansard - 213

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 14, 2023 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 213 - Jun/14/23
Mr. Lloyd Longfield (Guelph, Lib.)
  • Jun/14/23 7:00:27 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-22 
Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member from the Bloc for her thoughtful intervention tonight. I was particularly interested in her comments around working together with the provinces and territories to come to an agreement. With respect to the Canada child benefit, we were the government that negotiated no clawbacks. We are now putting into legislation the early learning and child care benefit that we have also negotiated with the provinces and territories. We are developing a track record. In fact, we have one we are expanding, and this will become part of what we are doing together with the provinces and territories. Instead of telling them what to do, we will work together. Could the hon. member talk about how important it is, particularly with us working with Quebec and the other provinces, to get this right together?
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Context: House Hansard - 213 - Jun/14/23
Mr. Alexandre Boulerice (Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, NDP)
  • Jun/14/23 10:40:16 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-35 
Madam Speaker, obviously, we are delighted with the bill, even though, as I said earlier, it took the Liberal Party 30 years to get there. Our confidence in the Liberals was so low that we were careful to include this in the 27-point agreement we negotiated with the minority government. We pushed hard for this, and my colleague from Winnipeg Centre fought to ensure that accessible, public, non-profit child care was given priority. We also stressed that child care educators had to receive good wages and good working conditions. I would like my colleague to speak to the importance of having high-calibre, trained professionals care for our children.
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