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{
"time": "2022-05-02 11:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Adam Chambers (Simcoe North, CPC)",
"fr": "M. Adam Chambers (Simcoe-Nord, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7138742\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7138743\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you to all the officials who've joined us today. It takes a lot of work to put together a bill of this size. It's one of the largest we've seen, so thank you for all of your hard work. I'm glad we're not billing by the hour with the number of people we have, but it's good to have so much intellectual capacity here.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7138744\" data-originallang=\"en\">My colleague Mr. Baker started by talking a little bit about fiscal responsibility, so perhaps I'll take the opportunity just to ask a few high-level questions. What is the spending growth from this year, projected, versus the year just before COVID? That's the 2019-2020 year versus the 2022-23 projected year. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7138745\" data-originallang=\"en\">While we look it up, I'll give you the numbers I see. Maybe we can see whether they're correct. In 2019-20, it was $360 billion. In 2022 it was about $450 billion. I'm rounding some these numbers. That includes the debt management charge. Is that about right?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7138742\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci beaucoup, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7138743\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je remercie tous les hauts fonctionnaires qui se sont joints \u00e0 nous aujourd'hui. La mise au point d'un projet de loi de cette taille exige beaucoup de travail. C'est l'un des projets de loi les plus volumineux que nous ayons vus, alors je vous remercie de votre travail acharn\u00e9. Compte tenu du nombre de personnes que nous avons invit\u00e9es, je suis heureux que nous ne soyons pas factur\u00e9s \u00e0 l'heure, mais il est bon que le Comit\u00e9 ait acc\u00e8s \u00e0 de telles capacit\u00e9s intellectuelles.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7138744\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mon coll\u00e8gue, M. Baker, a commenc\u00e9 par parler un peu de la responsabilit\u00e9 fiscale, alors je vais peut-\u00eatre profiter de l'occasion pour poser quelques questions de haut niveau \u00e0 ce sujet. Quelle est la croissance pr\u00e9vue des d\u00e9penses de cette ann\u00e9e, par rapport \u00e0 l'ann\u00e9e qui a pr\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 la pand\u00e9mie de COVID\u201119, c'est-\u00e0-dire l'ann\u00e9e 2019\u20112020 par rapport \u00e0 l'ann\u00e9e 2022\u20112023? </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7138745\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pendant que l'on v\u00e9rifie, je vais vous citer les chiffres que je vois. Nous pourrons peut-\u00eatre d\u00e9terminer s'ils sont corrects. En 2019\u20112020, ces d\u00e9penses se chiffraient \u00e0 360 milliards de dollars. En 2022, elles s'\u00e9levaient \u00e0 environ 450 milliards de dollars. Je pr\u00e9cise que j'arrondis certains de ces chiffres. Cela comprend le service de la dette. Est\u2011ce que ces chiffres sont \u00e0 peu pr\u00e8s exacts?</p>"
},
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