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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2009-10-23 11:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Hedy Fry (Vancouver Centre, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1640260\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, every day there is more evidence of the Conservative government's abuse of power. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1640261\" data-originallang=\"en\">Two-thirds of recreational infrastructure went to Conservative ridings, the use of taxpayers' dollars for political gain. On the cheques for those announcements is the government party's logo. That is use of public funds for party advertising. Now Western Economic Diversification uses political branding in its funding announcements, breaching rules of bureaucratic neutrality.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1640262\" data-originallang=\"en\">Does the minister not know it is an abuse of power to make the department do political advertising?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1640260\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, chaque jour s'accumulent des preuves montrant que le gouvernement conservateur abuse de son pouvoir.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1640261\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les deux tiers de l'argent consacr\u00e9 aux infrastructures de loisirs ont \u00e9t\u00e9 accord\u00e9s \u00e0 des circonscriptions conservatrices. On utilise l'argent des contribuables pour en tirer un avantage politique. Sur les ch\u00e8ques employ\u00e9s pour annoncer les subventions se trouvait le logo du parti au pouvoir. On utilise les deniers publics pour faire de la publicit\u00e9 partisane. Le minist\u00e8re de la Diversification de l'\u00e9conomie de l'Ouest utilise maintenant des images associ\u00e9es \u00e0 un parti politique pour annoncer le financement qu'il accorde, ce qui contrevient \u00e0 la r\u00e8gle de la neutralit\u00e9 de la fonction publique.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1640262\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le ministre ne sait-il pas que c'est un abus de pouvoir de se servir du minist\u00e8re pour faire de la publicit\u00e9 partisane?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2009/10/23/hedy-fry-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/hedy-fry/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3102/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2910172",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Infrastructure",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2009/10/23/",
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}