Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1997-10-20 18:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Don Boudria",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, I have no intention of taking part in the debate to decide which opposition party has something to teach the other parties in opposition. This is not my role. However, I will say that it was at the request of a colleague from the party of the member for Kamouraska\u2014Rivi\u00e8re-du-Loup\u2014 T\u00e9miscouata\u2014Les Basques that we considered the possibility of debating all stages in a single day. I thank the hon. member's colleague for the proposal.</p>\n<p>Most parliamentarians agreed. Most were in agreement up to last Friday. I think it was the proper approach.</p>\n<p>Today we are having a sort of filibuster in an effort to block this bill. However, at this eleventh hour, if we may continue, I still hope that we might look at the bill at all stages and be done with it so we may give Canadians and particularly people who are retired, senior citizens who today live in Canada but who worked part of their life in the United States, this tax relief. People should not have their assets seized\u2014in fact this is just what is happening right now\u2014at source as deductions that are not only not returned to the taxpayer but not to Canada either.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1997/10/20/don-boudria-6/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/3358/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3175/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Income Tax Conventions Implementation Act, 1997",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1997/10/20/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1997%2F10%2F20%2F"
    }
}