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Finance committee Why? You are asking Canadians for their opinions on what should be in a budget and you could use that as a sounding board to say which things are financial, which are fiscal, and which budgetary. All these things could be treated differently at different committees.
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Armine Yalnizyan
Finance committee No, that's fine.
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Armine Yalnizyan
Finance committee I think it is a help to those companies that were close to making that hiring decision anyway. I don't think that is enough money to make somebody turn around and say, “I think I'll hire that person.”
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Armine Yalnizyan
Finance committee No, I don't think it should be more money, sir—
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Armine Yalnizyan
Finance committee —but thank you for filling in the rest of my sentence.
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Armine Yalnizyan
Finance committee Closing tax loopholes is absolutely something that should be done. I would add to that that you should not keep opening up new tax loopholes at the same time.
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Armine Yalnizyan
Finance committee I would actually agree with the CFIB that having a seven-year timeline, and knowing where those premiums are going to go and why they're going to go there, is an absolutely appropriate way of doing things.
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Armine Yalnizyan
Finance committee I think lifetime capital gains exemption increases are lovely if you've already dealt with the problem of growing inequality, which you haven't.
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Armine Yalnizyan
Finance committee So I think it's like frosting on the cake if you've already solved the problem of income inequality, which is getting worse every year. And measures that are being proposed by this government for when we are in budget balance, which are income splitting and doubling contributions
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Armine Yalnizyan
Finance committee Well, they widen income inequality. If you don't see that as a negative thing, then.... We're not talking about positive/negative, we're just talking the facts.
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Armine Yalnizyan
Finance committee Say that again, please.
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Armine Yalnizyan
Finance committee No, I didn't know about that.
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Armine Yalnizyan
Finance committee I've been listening to this conversation and I am grateful to be part of it. I'm grateful to be part of these very respectful questions of small business and of the unemployed. I'm sitting here thinking that this piece of legislation needs to be split apart between fiscal measure
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Armine Yalnizyan
Finance committee It's very difficult to know what is going on. The Parliamentary Budget Officer asked for documentation and failed to receive it. The public is asking and fails to receive good answers to many questions that are being posed of this government. That $10 billion shortfall, consisten
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Armine Yalnizyan
Finance committee Thank you.
November 25th, 2013Committee meeting
Armine Yalnizyan