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This is a single
speech (committee meeting) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2025-11-24 11:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Sandra Cobena",
"fr": "Sandra Cobena"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9069468\" data-originallang=\"en\"> When I read through the budget, I found that it was very vague. It was not clear what was included as a capital investment and what was excluded. I think that the government was intentional in the vagueness. As a finance professional, I felt that was surprising because it's such an important term and you would expect it to be clearly laid out. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9069469\" data-originallang=\"en\">Would you say that having an independent expert who determines what counts as capital investments will allow parliamentarians to make more informed decisions when it comes to reporting and scrutinizing the government's expenses? </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9069468\" data-originallang=\"en\">Lorsque j'ai lu le budget, j'ai trouv\u00e9 que c'\u00e9tait tr\u00e8s vague. Ce qui \u00e9tait et n'\u00e9tait pas inclus dans les investissements en capital n'\u00e9tait pas clair. Je pense que c'\u00e9tait d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9ment voulu de la part du gouvernement. En tant que professionnelle des finances, j'ai trouv\u00e9 cela surprenant, car il s'agit d'un terme tr\u00e8s important et on s'attendrait \u00e0 ce qu'il soit clairement d\u00e9fini.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9069469\" data-originallang=\"en\">Diriez-vous que le fait d'avoir un groupe d'experts ind\u00e9pendant qui d\u00e9termine ce qui est consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme des investissements en capital permettra aux parlementaires de prendre des d\u00e9cisions plus \u00e9clair\u00e9es lorsqu'il s'agit d'examiner les d\u00e9penses du gouvernement et de faire rapport?</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/finance/45-1/15/sandra-cobena-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/sandra-cobena/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4762/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13256319",
"document_url": "/committees/finance/45-1/15/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fcommittees%2Ffinance%2F45-1%2F15%2F"
}
}