Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "2004-03-30 14:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Pierre Paquette (Joliette, BQ)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, I trust that, this time, it is not a 39 point process.</p>\n<p>In an anti-tax evasion context, how can the federal government justify the fact that the Foreign Affairs website boasts that what it terms Canadian investments in Barbados totalled $18 billion in 2001 and enabled 2,000 companies to pay no Canadian taxes?</p>\n<p>This is all the result of the revised tax convention that was renewed by the present Prime Minister during his time as finance minister. Does this seem fair to the taxpayers who are obliged to pay all their taxes in Canada?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2004/3/30/pierre-paquette-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/pierre-paquette/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1781/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Taxation",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2004/3/30/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2004%2F3%2F30%2F"
    }
}