Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "2004-03-24 14:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Marcel Gagnon (Champlain, BQ)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Minister of Finance showed once again that he cares nothing about the most vulnerable in our society. There are no concrete measures to grant fully retroactive guaranteed income supplement benefits. Yet he had no qualms about doing eligible seniors out of $3.2 billion in guaranteed income supplement benefits.</p>\n<p>Rather than taking money from the most vulnerable to pay down the debt, the Minister of Finance would have been better advised to ask the Prime Minister to repay the money he saved in tax havens. When he was finance minister, the Prime Minister introduced <a href=\"/bills/878/\" class=\"related_link legislation\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada National Parks Act\">Bill C-28</a> with its retroactive tax benefits for shipping companies.</p>\n<p>Therein lies this government's real priority: retroactive measures for the rich but nothing for the poor.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2004/3/24/marcel-gagnon-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/3831/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1770/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Statements By Members",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "The Budget",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2004/3/24/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2004%2F3%2F24%2F"
    }
}