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Help the poor, not banks: NDP leader
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
Dec. 6, 2010
… on Jan. 1, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government will be giving… bankers $6 billion in tax cuts, while the poorest people in the community can continue to rely on food banks, the New Democratic Party’s federal leader said… Jack Layton suggested that money could give seniors enough to get them out from below the poverty line or extend employment insurance benefits to people who need it. “You could do all those things plus so much more if you cancelled that corporate tax cut to the banks and the oil companies,”
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