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15 Billions illegaly given to Corporation" Conservative Leader Pierre Poilivre VS Liberal MP Fragiskatos In Questio...

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the Parliamentary budget officer

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this week criticized the fact that the

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government decided that it's not worth

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going after the 15 billion dollars in

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overpayments to Big corporations

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that they received

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for uh salary help that's money that

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they should not have received that's

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money that's coming out of the pockets

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of Canadians it's the equivalent of a

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thousand dollars for every Canadian

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family when will the Prime Minister

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finally

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go get the money that was illegally

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given to these major corporations

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The Honorable parliamentary secretary

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speaker I'll remind The Honorable

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access to it that's the public record

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last week at the Public Accounts

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committee the commissioner of the CRA

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made clear that verification work with

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respect to determining eligibility for

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the various coveted emergency programs

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is ongoing it was the CRA public

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employees who vary in a very focused way

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helped to administer the the various

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programs in place during covet and it's

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them now that are carrying out the vital

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verification work this work is taken

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seriously it's fiscally responsible

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approach he voted for it let's continue

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The Honorable leader of the opposition

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well no the prime minister's top tax

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collector Bob Hamilton the commissioner

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of CRI said quote it wouldn't be worth

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the effort to review and recover every

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of the every of the one 15.5 billion

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dollars paid out illegally to these

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corporations wouldn't be worth the

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effort

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billion dollars equals one thousand

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dollars for every single household in

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Canada money taken from working class

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single moms who can't feed their kids

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and given to wealthy corporations with

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connections to this government why won't

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they take back the money that was

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illegally taken and give it back to

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Canadians

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The Honorable parliamentary secretary

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Mr Speaker the the opposition leader

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talks about Canadians where was he at

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the height of the pandemic when

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Canadians needed their government he was

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talking about an austerity agenda he was

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talking about Cuts he wasn't behind the

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various programs that helped to sustain

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this country the work of the CRA

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continues as I mentioned before it's

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ongoing it is serious its focus in fact

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you should check the record in November

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of 2020 it was he and his party that

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voted to stop that work on the part of

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the CRA thank you very much

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leader of the opposition that's

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absolutely false where was I I was in

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this house telling the government that

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they shouldn't pay wage subsidies to

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corporations that were wealthy enough to

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pay out dividends bonuses

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and now and now we find out that it gets

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worse that there were 37 corporations

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that received the wage subsidy worth 81

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billion dollars who paid out dividends

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to their wealthy shareholders this was

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not money for workers it was what money

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for the wealthy why is it this

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government always gives more to the have

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Yachts by taking from the have-nots

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The Honorable parliamentary secretary

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German is from National Revenue Mr

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Speaker again when it comes to vital

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coveted programs that help to keep

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businesses going he was against all of

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that the key fact about the wage subsidy

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is that small businesses and

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medium-sized businesses in particular

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were kept going throughout the pandemic

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that's what we have to keep in mind in

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fact when it comes to the vital

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avoidance work and evasion work that the

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CRA carries out the conservatives cut

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the CRA budgets it couldn't do that work

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effectively in 2015 and onwards we've

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invested in the CRA to carry out

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avoidance work to carry out evasion work

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investigations are up as are criminal

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convictions and time spent in jail among

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..A Real response worthy of a republican conservative

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