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Lindsay Mathyssen

Member of Parliament
NDP

London—Fanshawe
Ontario
Voting Attendance: 63%
Expenses Last Quarter: $211,722.86

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Context: House Hansard - 214 - Jun/15/23

Ms. Lindsay Mathyssen (London—Fanshawe, NDP)

Jun/15/23 2:53:59 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the London Food Bank is seeing its highest turnout ever. People cannot afford the cost of food right now, and major grocers are using inflation as a cover to jack up prices. The government is choosing to protect the profits and greed of major grocers while Canadians' bills skyrocket. The multipartisan committee released a report stressing how a windfall tax would incentivize large grocers to keep prices low. Will the government implement this windfall tax immediately so that Canadians can stop going to food banks and can actually afford their groceries?

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Context: House Hansard - 204 - Jun/1/23

Ms. Lindsay Mathyssen (London—Fanshawe, NDP)

Jun/1/23 4:11:03 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I do not disagree with the hon. member that people are suffering. They are struggling. They are desperately trying to get by. However, there are those in this country earning such incredible profits. A huge group of them is in oil and gas. The NDP has used its opposition day motions to repeatedly call for this House to support a windfall excess profits tax, but this Conservative member has voted against it. I would like him to explain exactly why he would do that when those profits, those taxes, could go to supporting people, the same people who he says are suffering.

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Context: House Hansard - 142 - Dec/6/22

Ms. Lindsay Mathyssen

Dec/6/22 4:05:25 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-32

Madam Speaker, I would imagine $1 million a day is pretty excessive. Grocers can talk about it being about the supply chain and so on, yet the amount of money they are making, is $1 million in profits a day. We could talk about the bread price-fixing scam and that they never really paid that money back. We could talk about the money that they were given by the government to improve their refrigerators, money that they were going to invest in their own companies anyway, but the government rushed to the rescue and gave them more taxpayers' dollars. It is the same pockets, but it is just in different ways that taxpayers have to pay. It is not the government's job to defend companies. Its job is to equalize payments, taxes and programs to ensure equality.

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Context: House Hansard - 43 - Mar/22/22

Ms. Lindsay Mathyssen (London—Fanshawe, NDP)

Mar/22/22 1:00:57 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, the oil and gas companies in Canada have increased their already excessive profits, even throughout the pandemic, when others are suffering. The NDP has pushed for many years for the creation of an oil and gas ombudsman to work for and protect consumers against that kind of price gouging. Does the hon. member support this kind of initiative?

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Context: House Hansard - 42 - Mar/21/22

Ms. Lindsay Mathyssen (London—Fanshawe, NDP)

Mar/21/22 1:09:59 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I am stunned, unfortunately, and so disappointed by the comments from the hon. member across the way. I do not think that he read the motion and I would hope that he looks at it more closely. In no way have we ever talked about increasing taxation on people. In no way have we talked about increasing taxes on small businesses. This is specifically for those large organizations and corporations that have made excess record profits. They do not pass those along to people. They already do not pay their fair share in taxes, and people are feeling that on the ground. Scotiabank had a net profit of $10.1 billion and it paid its shareholders, but it does not go into the pockets of people. They take that from people and they take that from their customers. Loblaws had $1.9 billion. They take that—

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