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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": "2008-02-08 11:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Denise Savoie (Victoria, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"891021\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, it is time to resolve the real fiscal imbalance in Canada that falls on the shoulders of cities.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"891022\" data-originallang=\"en\">If the <a data-HoCid=\"78777\" href=\"/politicians/jim-flaherty/\" title=\"Jim Flaherty\">finance minister</a> thinks that cities have only potholes to worry about, he should come in from the burbs for a day. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"891023\" data-originallang=\"en\">He might find it challenging to repair antiquated storm sewers, meet increasing transit demand, create new affordable housing units, tackle addiction and mental health issues, keep libraries and community centres open, and retrofit civic buildings to fight climate change, all on eight cents of every tax dollar collected in Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"891024\" data-originallang=\"en\">He might find it unfair that our property taxes are going up while corporate taxes for big banks and big oil are going down.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"891025\" data-originallang=\"en\">City residents deserve healthy and sustainable communities and it is time that Ottawa did its share.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"891021\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, il est temps de rem\u00e9dier au r\u00e9el d\u00e9s\u00e9quilibre fiscal que l'on note au Canada et dont le fardeau retombe sur les villes. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"891022\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si le <a data-HoCid=\"78777\" href=\"/politicians/jim-flaherty/\" title=\"Jim Flaherty\">ministre des Finances</a> pense que les villes doivent uniquement se pr\u00e9occuper des nids-de-poules, il devrait sortir de sa banlieue pour une journ\u00e9e. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"891023\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il trouverait peut-\u00eatre que c'est un d\u00e9fi de r\u00e9parer de vieux \u00e9gouts pluviaux, de r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 la hausse de la demande dans les transports en commun, de cr\u00e9er de nouveaux logements \u00e0 prix abordable, de s'attaquer aux probl\u00e8mes de toxicomanie et de sant\u00e9 mentale, de faire fonctionner les biblioth\u00e8ques et les centres communautaires et de r\u00e9nover les \u00e9difices municipaux pour lutter contre les changements climatiques, tout cela avec huit cents sur chaque dollar per\u00e7u en imp\u00f4ts au Canada. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"891024\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le ministre trouverait peut-\u00eatre injuste que l'imp\u00f4t foncier augmente alors que celui des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s, des grandes banques et des grandes p\u00e9troli\u00e8res diminue. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"891025\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les habitants des villes m\u00e9ritent de vivre dans des collectivit\u00e9s saines et durables et il est temps que le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral fasse sa part \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2008/2/8/denise-savoie-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/denise-savoie/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/561/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2309528",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Municipal Infrastructure",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2008/2/8/",
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}
}