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Context: House Hansard - 329 - Jun/11/24

Jun/11/24 1:55:45 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I think the member has a problem with his earpiece because I just finished explaining my position. My position is that a job-killing tax on health care, homes, farms and small businesses is the last thing we need in this cost of living crisis, which the Prime Minister has caused. He wants to tax doctors away when we have a doctor shortage. He wants to tax farmers when we have a food price crisis. He wants to tax home builders when we do not have enough homes. He wants to tax small business when our economy is already falling off the cliff and having the worst growth in the G7. That is insanity. Common-sense Conservatives would bring in taxes that are lower, fairer and simpler, so that hard work would pay off with a powerful paycheque that would buy affordable food, gas and homes in safe neighbourhoods.

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Context: House Hansard - 329 - Jun/11/24

Mr. Brad Vis (Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon, CPC)

Jun/11/24 2:09:47 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-208

Mr. Speaker, at a time when food insecurity is skyrocketing and millions are lining up at food banks, the government is bringing forward a punishing capital gains tax hike that would disproportionately affect family farms and small business. According to the Grain Growers of Canada, it will amount to a 30% increase on what farmers have to pay Ottawa when they pass on their family business to their son or daughter. The Conservatives have fought hard to preserve family farming, including by passing Bill C-208 in the last Parliament, but the Liberals are trying to undo it with a punishing capital gains tax hike. It is like they are trying to outlaw family businesses. If families cannot afford to farm, it will lead to more industrial farming and higher food costs. Why is the government trying to kill family farms when all they want to do is put high-quality, affordable food on our tables? How is any of this fair?

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Context: House Hansard - 329 - Jun/11/24

Mr. John Barlow (Foothills, CPC)

Jun/11/24 2:54:59 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals' increase in the capital gains inclusion rate from 50% to 67% is a direct attack on Canadian farm families. The Liberals like to claim that this will only impact the ultra-rich, but that just is not true. This will impact family farms and young farmers who are just trying to take over the family farm. The average grain farm will easily exceed the lifetime exemption rate. This tax increase is not fair and will jeopardize the economic viability of farm families and our rural communities. Will the Prime Minister end his attack on family farms that are just trying to put food on our table?

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Context: House Hansard - 329 - Jun/11/24

Mr. John Barlow (Foothills, CPC)

Jun/11/24 2:56:30 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is not reassuring that the agriculture minister still does not know that there is going to be a capital gains inclusion rate change that is going to impact Canadian farmers. Farmers are trying to work hard every day to feed Canadians. The only thing this tax change is going to do is feed an obese Liberal government. The Liberals say this is about fairness, but it is not fair to young farmers. When they buy the family operation, they are burdened with millions of dollars in debt. This is a gift to the ultra-rich who will buy up family farmland, making mega-multinational industrial farms. Will the Prime Minister admit this is not a tax on the ultra-rich, it is an attack on the very survival of family farms?

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Context: House Hansard - 329 - Jun/11/24

Mr. Yves Perron (Berthier—Maskinongé, BQ)

Jun/11/24 3:02:44 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, while the Weather Network is predicting another high-risk summer for natural disasters, the federal government has yet to provide any compensation for last year's disasters. We are not off to a good start. What is the result? One in five farms is unable to pay its debts. One in ten farms wants to shut down within a year. Emergency assistance is urgently needed. Farmers have been calling on Ottawa for almost a year now. Quebec called for the program to be triggered seven months ago. Will the minister finally trigger the AgriRecovery program now?

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