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House Hansard - 334

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 18, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 334 - Jun/18/24
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Lib.)
  • Jun/18/24 2:55:38 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, let me share some economic analysis, “Here we have a monstrous policy of transferring wealth from wage-earners to asset-holders, from the working class to the wealthy....Here we have a policy that is specifically designed to transfer wealth from those who earn wages to those who earn capital gains through their assets.” Who said that? The current Conservative leader. He was railing against the holders of assets and claiming to support working people, but we learned last week that is fake populism.
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Context: House Hansard - 334 - Jun/18/24
Mr. Marty Morantz (Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, CPC)
  • Jun/18/24 3:02:08 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Larry the plumber from Winnipeg told the finance committee this morning that the Liberal change to the capital gains tax is not fair to his generation. He is not wealthy. He does not have a gold-plated public sector pension or a trust fund to fall back on, like the Prime Minister—
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