When I was a municipal councillor, some of the sewers in the ward I represented were 100 years old and were made of brick. They informed us that there was an infrastructure deficit, as if we did not already know, and said we have to invest in our water and sewer infrastructure, our bridges, and our roads. During the election campaign, the Liberals built up great expectations in the 25 municipalities I represent. As a former municipal councillor, I am intimately familiar with infrastructure needs, which are huge. I am proud of this role and the trust placed in me. I was recently appointed infrastructure and communities critic. That is $40 billion out of the public purse, and, most importantly, massive amounts that we cannot invest in health transfers, social housing, the fight against homelessness, infrastructure, and more. That is $40 billion lost this term alone. We would be helping the middle class and all those who are working so hard to join it. These are concrete measures that would help reduce inequalities. We could implement a guaranteed minimum income. We could take stronger measures to lower the price of prescription drugs for Canadians and increase health transfers to the provinces. We could help the most vulnerable members of our society by maintaining 800,000 social housing buildings for 25 years. Those 10,000 families would see their energy bills drop, and there would be a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. We could help 10,000 families upgrade their homes to improve energy efficiency. Imagine all the problems we could solve with an additional $8 billion a year. That is $8 billion a year lost in uncollected taxes because we have agreements with the Cayman Islands, Barbados, the Cook Islands, and so on. Statistics Canada, an extremely credible source, estimates that tax avoidance costs Canada $8 billion a year. When we talk about tax avoidance, we are talking about several billion dollars out of our coffers. On November 6, the Prime Minister himself even said that the government is working every day to make sure that all Canadians pay their income tax. The Liberals promised to tackle this problem. It is time to put an end to this strategy that benefits only the wealthiest Canadians. Tax evasion deprives families of hundreds of millions of dollars that could be invested in good social programs. Speaker, I would first like to inform you that I will be sharing my time with my colleague, the esteemed member for Victoria. That means that the Minister of National Revenue must redouble her efforts to get that money back. Statistics Canada has shown that tax havens are costing us $8 billion. Unfortunately, tax evasion and the use of tax havens prevent us from investing large amounts in these essential services because the wealthiest of the wealthy have access to tax havens and strategies that cost us billions and billions of dollars. If we put all our money together, individuals and companies, in a fair manner, we can pay for quality public services such as education, health, infrastructure, and support for the elderly and people with disabilities. The Liberals tell us that they are doing things, but we see that in Europe some countries are doing much more. Societies work well when everyone, individuals and companies alike, pay their fair share of tax. The problem is that it is not enough to agree, we must take action. Speaker, I am very happy to hear that he agrees with everything I said. So when you are doing your own translations or trying to have a phase translated, please don’t be concerned that yours may be a bit different or uses different words- this is the great advantage to Latin.Mr. It is important to remember when studying Latin that the same translation may be done in many different ways with various vocabulary words. One video for example has a literal title “id agat” or “Let it go,” another is “libera” which is the Jussive of libero meaning “let it go,” and the last one is libero which means “I break free.” So, all of these videos are quite different and I hope you enjoy them! Some choices have been made to honor the English more so than the Latin. However, you will also notice that all the translation have different words, word choices, and word orders. As you will notice that most of the translations are already provided for you in Latin and English. I am an avid fan of the following Youtube users who have taken the time to put “Let it Go” in Latin. Here is a trailer of the feature film: Frozen. While Latin is a “dead language” (please see my humorous post on this subject: here), it continues to thrive and flourish through its reuse in popular culture. One of the most popular songs of 2014 and winner of an Academy Award: “Let it Go” from the Disney film Frozen.
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