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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 14:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Thomas Mulcair (Outremont, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1243606\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, unlike the <a data-HoCid=\"78777\" href=\"/politicians/jim-flaherty/\" title=\"Jim Flaherty\">Minister of Finance</a>, Mr. Kevin Page, the Parliamentary Budget Officer, is here to tell Canadians the truth about the economy.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1243607\" data-originallang=\"en\">If the <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">Prime Minister</a> truly believes that an order-in-council appointee can be bossed around by other people, perhaps it is time for a change. Why, in that case, does the Prime Minister not help us fix the accountability act immediately by bringing forward legislation to guarantee his independence for the future?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1243606\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, contrairement au <a data-HoCid=\"78777\" href=\"/politicians/jim-flaherty/\" title=\"Jim Flaherty\">ministre des Finances</a>, M. Kevin Page, le directeur parlementaire du budget, est ici pour dire la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 au Canadiens \u00e0 propos de l'\u00e9conomie.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1243607\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si le <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">premier ministre</a> croit vraiment qu'on peut donner des ordres \u00e0 une personne nomm\u00e9e par d\u00e9cret, il est peut-\u00eatre temps d'apporter des changements. Dans ce cas, pourquoi le premier ministre ne nous aide-t-il pas \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer imm\u00e9diatement la Loi sur la responsabilit\u00e9 en pr\u00e9sentant un projet de loi qui garantirait \u00e0 l'avenir l'ind\u00e9pendance du titulaire de ce poste?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2008/11/20/thomas-mulcair-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/thomas-mulcair/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/826/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2556903",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Parliamentary Budget Officer",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2008/11/20/",
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}
}