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Daniel Bernhard
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Daniel Bernhard
2020-06-02 16:14
I'll try this. I hope that's better.
With respect, Mr. Julian, you mentioned that these companies, the platforms, Facebook and so on, should be better citizens. Respectfully, I think that's perhaps not the right frame. Their viewpoint is irrelevant. The Government of Canada should govern the way that business takes place in Canada. We should not be dependent on their goodwill for taxation or for compliance with hate speech law, libel, defamation and other circulation of illegal content that would land anyone else in jail.
What I would submit is that if the Government of Canada wishes to live up to its name, it should try to govern Canada, especially this majorly influential and politically impactful industry where one set of players is allowed to not just pay no taxes but also incur no costs to gather the news, to verify it, to edit it, to distribute it and so on.
We often hear that people are reluctant to interfere in this market, and I understand that there is fear that this is political manipulation. Ensuring that companies are paid a fair price for the product that they produce seems to be a very politically neutral, easily actionable and feasible first step, so I'd recommend starting there.
Daniel Bernhard
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Daniel Bernhard
2020-06-02 16:40
The establishment of a fair playing field is incredibly important. There are a number of measures. Forcing them to pay for the content that they use is definitely a key measure and an easy one that can be enacted right now. Following the lead of Quebec and Saskatchewan in requiring them to collect sales taxes on their products is something simple that can happen right now. Corporate income tax is another matter.
A last matter that I would say is this: Facebook profits by claiming to be a neutral platform, and as a result they allow all manner of content that is actually illegal to pass through. We're talking, for example, about hundreds of thousands of images, every day, of child sexual exploitation, and those are just the ones that are reported. There's been extensive documentation of this. This is content that their competitors that are in the same business would be shut down for. I think if we are a country of laws, we should start to apply them. I think if we did apply them, we would find that Canadian journalism organizations are actually quite efficient in ensuring that the content that gets through is safe and legal. If Facebook, as a competitor in the business, were held to the same standard, I think the marketplace would look quite different.
View Pierre Poilievre Profile
CPC (ON)
Unfortunately, we will have a $1-trillion debt when this fiscal year comes to an end. How much will the finance minister try to raise taxes if interest rates on that debt rise by, say, 1%?
View Bill Morneau Profile
Lib. (ON)
Mr. Chair, as I've said to the House previously, we do not intend to raise taxes.
What the member opposite is suggesting is that we shouldn't be investing to support Canadians. I think the approach we've taken, with the emergency response benefit and the wage subsidy, has been particularly critical for enabling Canadians to get through a very challenging time.
View Martin Champoux Profile
BQ (QC)
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2020-05-27 12:13
Mr. Chair, I would like to recognize the resilience of Quebeckers concerned for their jobs or their businesses during the COVID-19 crisis.
They need us to plan for after the crisis, and we must do so now. To do so, we need the proper information. We need to know the status of the public finances. That is why the Bloc Québécois is demanding that the government present an economic update, and that it do so before June 17. This is not about making a spectacle. Everyone knows that the deficit will be huge. We had to provide the people with support and we all agree on that. But we have to know to what extent. We also have to know where we are starting from so that we can plan where we are going. This is about respecting the public, because they are the ones who will be paying the bill.
In closing, I would like to remind the government that one group is not really contributing to the public purse at the moment. I am talking about the tech giants, the GAFAM group, that have never before been used to the extent that they are now, and that are still not paying a cent in tax in Canada. The Liberals promised to correct this injustice. Now is a great time for them to do so.
View Gérard Deltell Profile
CPC (QC)
Mr. Chair, will the minister commit not to raise taxes after the crisis?
View Bill Morneau Profile
Lib. (ON)
Mr. Chair, I have said several times that we do not have a plan to raise taxes. That's very important.
View Gérard Deltell Profile
CPC (QC)
Finally a clear answer! However, I'm not convinced that he will apply it.
In fact, the Parliamentary Budget Officer himself has said that “there isn't much ammunition left without shifting into a large structural deficit”, which can lead directly to tax increases.
If the Minister of Finance can't even say today what the deficit is today, how can he be credible when he says that he won't raise taxes?
View Bill Morneau Profile
Lib. (ON)
Mr. Chair, I think what's most important is that during this pandemic, Canadians and companies across the country need the Government of Canada's help. That is our approach. That way, we will have an economy that will function in the future. Of course, this is important for future generations.
View Adam Vaughan Profile
Lib. (ON)
If we were to claw that back through the tax system, what percentage would be currently clawed back under the existing tax rates?
Kevin Milligan
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Kevin Milligan
2020-05-25 19:00
Tax rates for many Canadian families are more in the range of, at the federal level, 25% or 30%. You would get back some of that if you were to pay out these kinds of very large cheques to everyone. You would get some of that back through the tax system; that is clear. You could imagine extra surtaxes in order to pull back those extra benefits at tax time.
I just think, for me, a very important consideration in going the way the government did with the CERB was the speed of delivery. The fact that there was that CRA website made it so fast.
View Adam Vaughan Profile
Lib. (ON)
Just to be clear, if we taxed 100% back after earnings of, say, $120,000 a year, that would only claw back about 30% or 40% of the expenditure. In other words, it would cost us about $40 billion a month to follow Mr. Kassam's advice.
Kevin Milligan
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Kevin Milligan
2020-05-25 19:02
Yes, it's right that it would cost a lot. Even if you were to set some threshold of $100,000 or $150,000 where you would claw back all this extra benefit, most Canadian families don't earn that much. You would still have a lot of money going out and that clawback wouldn't actually bring in so much. You'd end up with the kind of bill for this that would make the deficit even bigger than it is going to be.
View Bob Benzen Profile
CPC (AB)
Minister of Finance, this Liberal government is spending enormous amounts of money every day, borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars to do it. However, when you borrow money, you need to show your lenders a plan for how you will pay it back.
Minister of Finance, what will you ask Canadians to do to repay this money? Will you raise the GST? Are you going to raise personal income taxes, corporate taxes? What will be the pain for Canadians after this?
View Bill Morneau Profile
Lib. (ON)
Madam Chair, we believe it's absolutely imperative that we support individuals and businesses through this particularly challenging time. We recognize that the investments we are making are extraordinary. We have no plans to raise taxes. When we come out of this, we'll need a strong economy to get back to the growth that will support our long-term opportunities.
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