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{
"time": "2008-05-06 14:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Marlene Jennings (Notre-Dame-de-Gr\u00e2ce\u2014Lachine, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1073278\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, despite the role he played in Quebec during the election campaign, the <a data-HoCid=\"78771\" href=\"/politicians/lawrence-cannon/\" title=\"Lawrence Cannon\">Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities</a> is still playing innocent.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1073279\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Some candidates, like the member for <a data-HoCid=\"78507\" href=\"/politicians/sylvie-boucher/\" title=\"Sylvie Boucher\">Beauport\u2014Limoilou</a>, were forced to accept a transfer to their campaign account\u2014and then transfer out again\u2014some $50,000, but the minister himself transferred only $5,000. That is $50,000 compared to $5,000.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1073280\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Given this difference in price for the same advertising, how can the Conservatives claim that the purpose of their scheme was not to circumvent the Elections Act?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1073278\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, malgr\u00e9 le r\u00f4le qu'il a jou\u00e9 au Qu\u00e9bec pendant la campagne \u00e9lectorale, le <a data-HoCid=\"78771\" href=\"/politicians/lawrence-cannon/\" title=\"Lawrence Cannon\">ministre des Transports, de l\u2019Infrastructure et des Collectivit\u00e9s</a> joue toujours l'innocent.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1073279\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Certains, comme la d\u00e9put\u00e9e de <a data-HoCid=\"78507\" href=\"/politicians/sylvie-boucher/\" title=\"Sylvie Boucher\">Beauport\u2014Limoilou</a>, ont \u00e9t\u00e9 forc\u00e9s de faire entrer dans leur fonds de campagne \u2014 et d'en faire sortir \u2014 quelque 50 000 $, mais le ministre lui-m\u00eame n'a fait circuler que 5 000 $. C'est 50 000 $ par opposition \u00e0 5 000 $.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1073280\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Compte tenu d'un tel \u00e9cart dans le prix pour la m\u00eame publicit\u00e9, comment les conservateurs peuvent-t-ils pr\u00e9tendre que leur plan n'avait pas pour objectif de contourner la loi \u00e9lectorale?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2008/5/6/marlene-jennings-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/marlene-jennings/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2702/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2454430",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Elections Canada",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2008/5/6/",
"related": {
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}
}