Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1998-12-01 14:50:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Paul Martin (Minister of Finance, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, in the last budget we brought in over $7 billion in tax relief over three years. Today my colleague, the Minister of Human Resources Development, decreased employment insurance premiums by 15 cents, which represents well over a billion dollars.</p>\n<p>Every single year that we have been in office employment insurance premiums have come down. There are two things to count on: employment insurance premiums coming down; and their popularity going down.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1998/12/1/paul-martin-4/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/paul-martin/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3285/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Taxation",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1998/12/1/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1998%2F12%2F1%2F"
    }
}