House of Commons
HANSARD
October 3, 2011
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Ms. Libby Davies (Vancouver East, NDP):
Mr. Speaker, in the last federal election New Democrats put forward a solid proposal to support small businesses, the real job creators in our economy.
This plan applied to all employers and gave them room to hire and retain more staff. The government could have enacted it immediately, thus supporting Canadian businesses and staving off rising unemployment numbers.
Why does the government prefer to blow billions on corporate tax cuts with no guarantee a single job will be created?
Mrs. Shelly Glover (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance, CPC):
Mr. Speaker, I will repeat one more time that 600,000 jobs have been created. As far as we compare to the rest of the world, Canada’s GDP and employment have both recovered to pre-crisis levels, outperforming all of the G7 countries. We are proud of that. We are proud of the measures we have put forward with our economic action plan, and wait for it, the next phase is about to come.
Ms. Libby Davies (Vancouver East, NDP):
Mr. Speaker, we know that we have not recovered the jobs from that recession.
We know that the New Democrat job creation plan makes more sense than shipping jobs overseas, more sense than across-the-board corporate tax cuts, and more sense than rewarding already profitable corporations.
When will the government implement this practical, affordable, hiring credit to kickstart job creation and get our economy moving again? Why will it not do this?