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This is a single
speech (house debate) 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": "1996-10-21 14:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mrs. Francine Lalonde (Mercier, BQ)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Human Resources Development. But first, I would like to say, to follow up on what has just been said, that the unemployment rate has gone up, again.</p>\n<p>On October 9, the Minister of Human Resources Development said he wanted to assure all Canadians that the employment insurance program had become a more active measure or insurance program. He stated that a total of $800 million will be injected into this program every year.</p>\n<p>According to a departmental document, however, not only is this $800 million investment not assured, but making this investment possible will require recovering a further $365 million per year, and the measures planned to recover the amounts collected by people who cheat the system will not be enough. As a result, a special recipient assistance services will be established.</p>\n<p>Will the minister admit that this $800 million will not be available for active measures unless an extra $365 million is recovered every year?</p>",
"fr": ""
},
"url": "/debates/1996/10/21/francine-lalonde-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/francine-lalonde/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3298/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Question Period",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Unemployment Insurance",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/1996/10/21/",
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}
}