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{
    "time": "2025-12-11 12:50:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Branden Leslie",
        "fr": "Branden Leslie"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9116319\" data-originallang=\"en\">That is not what I'm trying to say. I'm trying to say that Russia, America, every other heavy-emitting country and the countries that our industries compete with do not have a carbon tax.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9116320\" data-originallang=\"en\">Try to cherry-pick Russia all you want, but the reality is that other nations that we compete with don't have carbon taxes.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9116319\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce n'est pas ce que j'essaie de dire. J'essaie de dire que la Russie, les \u00c9tats-Unis, tous les autres pays qui \u00e9mettent des niveaux \u00e9lev\u00e9s de gaz \u00e0 effet de serre et les pays qui sont des concurrents pour nos industries n'ont pas de taxe sur le carbone.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9116320\" data-originallang=\"en\">Concentrez-vous sur la Russie \u00e0 votre guise, mais, dans les faits, d'autres pays avec lesquels nos industries sont en concurrence n'ont pas de taxes sur le carbone.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/environment/45-1/21/branden-leslie-4/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/branden-leslie/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4655/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "13307806",
    "document_url": "/committees/environment/45-1/21/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fcommittees%2Fenvironment%2F45-1%2F21%2F"
    }
}