Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1995-02-28 14:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Herb Grubel (Capilano-Howe Sound, Ref.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, during the 1980s Michael Wilson used to deliver budgets that contained the same rhetoric and projections of stable debt to GDP ratios as did the budget tabled yesterday. As</p>\n<p>analysts said then and are saying now, planning for stable debt to GDP ratios during prosperity is not sufficient.</p>\n<p>Why would not the next inevitable economic downturn again increase the deficit and once again put the country on the unsustainable path of a growing debt to GDP ratio?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1995/2/28/herb-grubel-5/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/6729/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3076/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "The Budget",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1995/2/28/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1995%2F2%2F28%2F"
    }
}