Evidence of meeting #128 for Finance in the 44th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was affordable.
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Liberal
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca
Members, you should now have received the French version of the amendment.
Monsieur Ste-Marie, I don't know if you'd like to look it over.
MP Hallan.
Conservative
Jasraj Singh Hallan Conservative Calgary Forest Lawn, AB
Thank you, Chair.
I just want to make one last plea. If there's any way Mr. Blaikie would be willing to do a 0% increase, as we discussed, until inflation does come down, we could have this conversation once again.
As we all know, it's a cost of living crisis that we're going through, and increasing taxes again is not helping anybody out—not our small businesses, not the producers and certainly not Canadians who are already struggling with the high cost of everything after eight years.
I would like to ask Mr. Blaikie if he'd be willing to get rid of the 2% and just keep it at zero. We can keep all of the other wording.
NDP
Daniel Blaikie NDP Elmwood—Transcona, MB
As Mr. Hallan has pointed out, there will no doubt be other occasions to talk about this again.
It's something that Canadians will watch very closely, alongside inflation numbers, but for the moment, I think that limiting the increase to the target rate of inflation is the appropriate course of action.
(Amendment agreed to: yeas 7; nays 4)
(Motion as amended agreed to: yeas 11; nays 0)
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca
We are going in camera for the PBC.
[Proceedings continue in camera]