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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": "2008-11-24 13:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Yasmin Ratansi (Don Valley East, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1245328\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the hon. member for a very well thought out speech.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1245329\" data-originallang=\"en\">The member is very interested in the forestry and cultural industry. She mentioned that the current situation could have been avoided. Canada could have buffered this R word, the recession word, had there been good economic policies.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1245330\" data-originallang=\"en\">The Parliamentary Budget Officer stated that the current government spent $40 billion more than it received in revenue and this was due to bad economic policies and tax gimmicks. Could the member tell me how the good people of British Columbia, the people in the forestry industry, will be able to buffer this recession now that we do not have a $3 billion contingency reserve that the Liberals had when they were in power?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1245328\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je remercie la d\u00e9put\u00e9e pour son discours m\u00fbrement r\u00e9fl\u00e9chi.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1245329\" data-originallang=\"en\">La d\u00e9put\u00e9e s'int\u00e9resse beaucoup au secteur forestier et au secteur culturel. Elle a mentionn\u00e9 que la situation actuelle aurait pu \u00eatre \u00e9vit\u00e9e. Si de bonnes politiques \u00e9conomiques avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 mises en place, le Canada aurait pu absorber le coup de la r\u00e9cession.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1245330\" data-originallang=\"en\">Selon le directeur parlementaire du budget, le gouvernement actuel a d\u00e9pens\u00e9 40 milliards de dollars de plus qu'il n'en a touch\u00e9 en recettes, et ce, \u00e0 cause de mauvaises politiques \u00e9conomiques et de subterfuges fiscaux. La d\u00e9put\u00e9e peut-elle me dire comment les bonnes gens de la Colombie-Britannique, les gens du secteur forestier, pourront traverser cette r\u00e9cession maintenant que nous n'avons plus la r\u00e9serve pour \u00e9ventualit\u00e9s de 3 milliards de dollars que les lib\u00e9raux avaient lorsqu'ils \u00e9taient au pouvoir?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2008/11/24/yasmin-ratansi-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/yasmin-ratansi/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1358/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2557968",
"h1": {
"en": "Speech From The Throne",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "RESUMPTION OF DEBATE ON ADDRESS IN REPLY",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2008/11/24/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2008%2F11%2F24%2F"
}
}