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{
"time": "2024-02-01 12:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Adam Chambers",
"fr": "M. Adam Chambers"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8190025\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Thank you very much.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8190026\" data-originallang=\"en\">Before I turn it back over to you with a last question, I'll apologize on behalf of all of Parliament for not listening to you two years ago when you came here and said, half-jokingly, to stop spending. I think that was very forward-looking of you. However, we didn't deliver. Parliament increased spending by over 25% versus pre-COVID levels, and we haven't done our job. We haven't done our job on spending, and we haven't done our job on population growth.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8190027\" data-originallang=\"en\">Here is my last question in the last 30 seconds. There's an election coming up. It could be in a couple of months; it could be in two years. It's very rare for a politician to resist the temptation to buy votes. It's also rare for voters not to want to take that. What advice would you have for those seeking to buy votes in the next election?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8190025\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je vous remercie.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8190026\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Avant de vous demander de r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 une derni\u00e8re question, je tiens \u00e0 pr\u00e9senter mes excuses au nom de tout le Parlement de ne pas vous avoir \u00e9cout\u00e9 il y a deux ans lorsque vous avez dit lors de votre comparution ici, un peu \u00e0 la blague, d'arr\u00eater de d\u00e9penser. Je pense que c'\u00e9tait tr\u00e8s perspicace de votre part. Cependant, nous ne l'avons pas fait. Le Parlement a augment\u00e9 les d\u00e9penses de plus de 25 % par rapport aux niveaux ant\u00e9rieurs \u00e0 la COVID et nous n'avons pas fait notre travail. Nous n'avons pas fait notre travail en mati\u00e8re de d\u00e9penses et nous n'avons pas fait notre travail en mati\u00e8re de croissance d\u00e9mographique.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8190027\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Voici ma derni\u00e8re question pour les 30 derni\u00e8res secondes. Des \u00e9lections approchent, peut-\u00eatre dans quelques mois, peut-\u00eatre dans deux ans. Il est tr\u00e8s rare que des politiciens r\u00e9sistent \u00e0 la tentation d'acheter des voix. Il est \u00e9galement rare que des \u00e9lecteurs refusent d'en profiter. Quel conseil donneriez-vous \u00e0 ceux qui cherchent \u00e0 acheter des voix lors des prochaines \u00e9lections?</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/finance/44-1/124/adam-chambers-4/",
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"procedural": false,
"source_id": "12546614",
"document_url": "/committees/finance/44-1/124/",
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}