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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": "2009-10-06 17:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Guy Andr\u00e9",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1611530\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I understand why the member opposite does not get the Bloc\u2019s proposal on this issue. Members of right-wing political parties like his are not very sensitive to the disadvantaged and the unemployed. They proved that in the past with their reluctance to improve the employment insurance system.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1611531\" data-originallang=\"fr\">We proposed that people earning over $150,000 should pay a 1% surtax. Instead of attacking society\u2019s most vulnerable, the poor and the unemployed, we want some members of the House and other people with high incomes to participate in the collective deficit reduction effort. I can see how that might clash with the member opposite\u2019s ideology.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1611530\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je comprends que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 d'en face ne comprenne pas les avanc\u00e9es du Bloc \u00e0 cet effet. Lorsqu'on est de droite comme ce parti ici en Chambre, on a peu de sensibilit\u00e9 envers les personnes d\u00e9munies et les personnes qui perdent leur emploi. Ils l'ont d\u00e9montr\u00e9 par le pass\u00e9 lors de la r\u00e9sistance qu'ils ont manifest\u00e9e pour am\u00e9liorer le r\u00e9gime d'assurance-emploi.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1611531\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Ce qu'on a propos\u00e9, c'est que les personnes qui ont un revenu de 150 000 $ et plus aient une surtaxe de 1 p. 100. Au lieu de s'attaquer aux plus d\u00e9munis de notre soci\u00e9t\u00e9, aux ch\u00f4meurs et aux moins bien nantis, nous voulons que certains d\u00e9put\u00e9s en cette Chambre et d'autres qui ont des revenus assez \u00e9lev\u00e9s puissent participer \u00e0 l'effort collectif de r\u00e9duction du d\u00e9ficit. Je comprends que ce ne soit pas l'id\u00e9ologie du d\u00e9put\u00e9 d'en face.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2009/10/6/guy-andre-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/guy-andre/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1460/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2882385",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Economic Recovery Act (stimulus)",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2009/10/6/",
"related": {
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}
}