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speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2007-11-01 13:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Judy Sgro",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"763001\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, let me first address the issue of what I consider to be important for an opposition party. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"763002\" data-originallang=\"en\">One thing I have noticed in the eight years I have been here is how often people simply vote against something because it is the opposition or the government. The fact that we chose to take the road we did yesterday was, to me, acting in a responsible way as a responsible opposition. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"763003\" data-originallang=\"en\">Sure, there are issues that we agree with but there were issues in the mini-budget yesterday that we did not agree with. However, bringing the government down and spending $500 million for another election would likely bring us right back to the situation we are in today, except we would probably be on that side of the House and the Conservatives would be on this side.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"763004\" data-originallang=\"en\">Over and above that, I would rather invest that $500 million in seniors, in medicare and in housing programs that we do not have. There was nothing in the mini-budget that talked about the issues that really matter to Canadians.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"763001\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'aimerais tout d'abord parler de ce qui, d'apr\u00e8s moi, est important pour un parti d'opposition.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"763002\" data-originallang=\"en\">Une chose que j'ai remarqu\u00e9e depuis que je suis arriv\u00e9e \u00e0 la Chambre il y a huit ans, c'est la fr\u00e9quence avec laquelle les gens votent contre une mesure simplement parce qu'ils sont dans l'opposition ou au gouvernement. D'apr\u00e8s moi, hier, nous avons agi de fa\u00e7on responsable en tant que parti d'opposition responsable.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"763003\" data-originallang=\"en\">Certaines mesures contenues dans le minibudget d'hier nous conviennent, mais pas toutes. Cependant, si nous faisions tomber le gouvernement, il faudrait d\u00e9penser 500 millions de dollars pour tenir d'autres \u00e9lections, \u00e0 l'issue desquelles la situation serait toujours la m\u00eame, \u00e0 part que nous serions probablement de l'autre c\u00f4t\u00e9 de la Chambre, et les conservateurs, de ce c\u00f4t\u00e9-ci.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"763004\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je pr\u00e9f\u00e8re plut\u00f4t consacrer ces 500 millions de dollars aux personnes \u00e2g\u00e9es, au syst\u00e8me de sant\u00e9 et aux programmes de logement que nous n'avons pas. Le minibudget ne parlait pas de ces questions que les Canadiens trouvent vraiment importantes.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/11/1/judy-sgro-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/judy-sgro/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3671/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2186593",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Sitting Resumed",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/11/1/",
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}
}