Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "2000-10-20 11:50:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Yvon Godin (Acadie\u2014Bathurst, NDP)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, with a $15 billion surplus, there is not one cent for the unemployed. The Liberals were not elected to cut the capital gains tax rate by 40% for the rich earning in excess of $250,000 annually. They were elected to reduce the gap between rich and poor.</p>\n<p>Why give billions to the banks, while leaving the country with 70 new food banks that have had to start up in the past five years?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2000/10/20/yvon-godin-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/yvon-godin/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2521/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Economic Policy",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2000/10/20/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2000%2F10%2F20%2F"
    }
}