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{
    "time": "2008-11-24 14:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Marlene Jennings (Notre-Dame-de-Gr\u00e2ce\u2014Lachine, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1245577\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, allow me to give the member an introductory course in finances. When seniors roll their RRSPs into RRIFs, they have to pay taxes. To pay these taxes, seniors have to sell off their investments when the markets are at rock bottom. In their letter to the banks, the Conservatives did not make any suggestions about how this problem could be fixed. They would have gotten better results writing to Santa Claus.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1245578\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Do the Conservatives not realize that by refusing to act, they are wiping out our seniors' savings?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1245577\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je vais lui donner le cours 101 en mati\u00e8re de finances. Lorsque les a\u00een\u00e9s transf\u00e8rent leur REER en FERR, ils doivent payer des imp\u00f4ts. Pour payer ces imp\u00f4ts, les a\u00een\u00e9s doivent se d\u00e9partir de leurs investissements alors que le march\u00e9 est \u00e0 terre. Dans leur lettre aux banquiers, les conservateurs ne proposent rien pour r\u00e9gler ce probl\u00e8me. Ils auraient mieux fait d'\u00e9crire au P\u00e8re No\u00ebl, car cela aurait peut-\u00eatre donn\u00e9 quelque chose.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1245578\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Les conservateurs ne se rendent-ils pas compte qu'en refusant d'agir, ils vont faire dispara\u00eetre l'\u00e9pargne de nos a\u00een\u00e9s?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2008/11/24/marlene-jennings-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/marlene-jennings/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2702/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2558143",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Seniors",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2008/11/24/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2008%2F11%2F24%2F"
    }
}