Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2006-10-25 16:45:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Nathan Cullen (Skeena\u2014Bulkley Valley, NDP)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"217916\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, Prince George is a fine city. I live in Skeena and visit Prince George as often as I can.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"217917\" data-originallang=\"en\">The question I have for the member is twofold and the first part concerns the United States. Within the U.S. congressional district there is a separate accounting office which was established to prevent what we have seen the Canadian government do, which is to collect more revenues than it was expecting in order to play with the numbers. I am sure his government, when it was in office, perfected the ability to stretch and extrapolate. At the end of every budget cycle, lo and behold, his government would run out to the truck, throw a bunch of cash in it and drive around the country dumping it as quickly as it could.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"217918\" data-originallang=\"en\">Would he support having an arm's length accounting office in this country and, at long last, removing the politics over the numbers and just allow the debate to exist over where the priorities need to be?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"217919\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I also could not help but hear the finance minister talk about the $80 a year benefit to university students. Would the member comment on how his party was able to, year in and year out for 11 years in a row, have students leaving university with an average increase of $1,000 a year in debt. Students in Canada under his government's regime were having an extra $1,000 of debt tacked on every year. The government is purporting to change that trend but it is in fact just supporting it.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"217916\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, Prince George est une belle ville. Je vis \u00e0 Skeena et je vais \u00e0 Prince George le plus souvent possible.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"217917\" data-originallang=\"en\">La question que je pose au d\u00e9put\u00e9 renferme deux volets, le premier concernant les \u00c9tats-Unis. Au sein du Congr\u00e8s des \u00c9tats-Unis, il y a un bureau de comptabilit\u00e9 ind\u00e9pendant qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 cr\u00e9\u00e9 pour pr\u00e9venir ce que nous avons vu le gouvernement canadien faire, \u00e0 savoir percevoir plus de recettes que celles n\u00e9cessaires au paiement des d\u00e9penses. Je ne doute pas que le parti du d\u00e9put\u00e9, lorsqu'il \u00e9tait au pouvoir, a perfectionn\u00e9 l'art de l'extrapolation. \u00c0 la fin de chacun des cycles budg\u00e9taires, \u00f4 surprise, le gouvernement de l'\u00e9poque se retrouvait avec une cagnotte pleine \u00e0 craquer qu'il s'empressait de vider en parcourant le pays.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"217918\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 souscrirait-il \u00e0 l'id\u00e9e de cr\u00e9er un bureau de comptabilit\u00e9 ind\u00e9pendant dans notre pays afin de d\u00e9politiser une fois pour toutes l'exercice budg\u00e9taire et laisser un sain d\u00e9bat d\u00e9terminer les priorit\u00e9s?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"217919\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je n'ai pu m'emp\u00eacher \u00e9galement d'\u00e9couter le ministre des Finances parler du cr\u00e9dit d'imp\u00f4t de 80 $ par ann\u00e9e accord\u00e9e aux \u00e9tudiants universitaires. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 peut-il nous dire comment son parti a pu, ann\u00e9e apr\u00e8s ann\u00e9e pendant 11 ann\u00e9es de suite, permettre que les \u00e9tudiants quittent l'universit\u00e9 avec une hausse moyenne de 1 000 $ par ann\u00e9e de leur dette? Quand le parti du d\u00e9put\u00e9 \u00e9tait au pouvoir, les \u00e9tudiants ont vu leur dette augmenter de 1 000 $ de plus par ann\u00e9e. Le gouvernement pr\u00e9tend vouloir changer cette situation, mais il ne fait que la perp\u00e9tuer.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2006/10/25/nathan-cullen-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/nathan-cullen/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1287/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "1722745",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Budget Implementation Act, 2006, No. 2",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2006/10/25/",
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