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{
    "time": "2005-05-16 16:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Alexa McDonough (Halifax, NDP)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, I have been listening with great interest to the Conservative spokesperson trying to rationalize his way through one of the most cynical and sinister marriages of convenience in history. For a party opposed to same sex marriage, it is amazing that the party leader is so quick to crawl into bed with the leader of separatists while they demonize separatists at the same time.</p>\n<p>Could the member explain something that is totally puzzling to Canadians? We hear on the one hand that very capable communicator, and I do not doubt that for a minute, absolutely seething with rage and condemning the government for its reckless spending spree, ensuring that his party sideswipes the NDP every step of the way. At the same time he, his leader and every other Conservative whose partisan interests are served by it are going around the country with a pail and a shovel saying, \u201cBy the way\u201d, following the Prime Minister's various commitments, \u201cyou can count on us to honour every one of these spending commitments\u201d.</p>\n<p>How does a sensible person, who knows and understands finances, rationalize that kind of fundamental contradiction, to say that it is reckless to make these commitments, that it is reckless spending, that it will break the bank, that it is fiscally irresponsible, but \u201cvote for us\u201d in an election that Canadians neither need nor want? They will get their pound of flesh for the scandal in due course, but vote for them and they will honour all of those reckless, irresponsible excessive spending commitments.</p>\n<p>How does the member explain that kind of contradiction?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2005/5/16/alexa-mcdonough-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/192/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2543/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "An Act to Authorize the Minister of Finance to Make Certain Payments",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2005/5/16/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2005%2F5%2F16%2F"
    }
}