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{
    "time": "1995-12-07 14:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Michel Gauthier (Roberval, BQ)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, a good manager knows the contents of his budget.</p>\n<p>Although I respect the minister, he is entitled to his shortcomings as much as anyone. He has certainly forgotten that next year he himself has projected taking $5 billion from the U.I. fund during the year. He is entitled to a mistake, so we will give him another chance.</p>\n<p>Will this minister, good manager that he is, admit that to bring his deficit, the federal deficit, down to $17 billion in 1997-98, as he has indicated to us, he will need to keep on dipping into the U.I. fund year after year?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1995/12/7/michel-gauthier-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/116/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3311/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Unemployment Insurance Fund",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1995/12/7/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1995%2F12%2F7%2F"
    }
}