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This is a single
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": "2008-11-20 14:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Jim Flaherty (Minister of Finance, CPC)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1243635\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, while Canada's financial system is the soundest in the world, the credit crisis, the financial crisis, certainly since last year has demonstrated one glaring deficiency in our system of regulation in Canada, and that is the absence of a national securities regulator.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1243636\" data-originallang=\"en\">This is not an academic subject. This matters to seniors, to people with investments, mutual funds, to families, to Canadians from coast to coast to coast. Therefore, we are going to move forward toward a common national securities regulator for Canada with willing partners in the provinces and willing participants.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1243635\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, bien que le syst\u00e8me financier du Canada soit le plus solide au monde, depuis l'ann\u00e9e derni\u00e8re, la crise du cr\u00e9dit, la crise financi\u00e8re, a mis en lumi\u00e8re une lacune \u00e9vidente de notre syst\u00e8me de r\u00e9glementation au Canada, \u00e0 savoir l'absence d'un organisme national de r\u00e9glementation des valeurs mobili\u00e8res. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1243636\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il ne s'agit pas d'une question th\u00e9orique. C'est une question importante pour les a\u00een\u00e9s et les gens qui ont des investissements, notamment dans des fonds communs de placement, pour les familles et les Canadiens d'un bout \u00e0 l'autre du pays. Par cons\u00e9quent, nous allons aller de l'avant en vue de mettre en place un organisme commun de r\u00e9glementation des valeurs mobili\u00e8res au Canada, en collaboration avec les provinces, qui sont nos partenaires et des participants pleins de bonne volont\u00e9.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2008/11/20/jim-flaherty-14/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/jim-flaherty/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/413/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2556944",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Securities Industry",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2008/11/20/",
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}
}