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{
    "time": "2009-11-03 13:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Nicolas Dufour",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1669061\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, my question will be very short.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1669062\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Yesterday the NDP tried to corner me, if I may put it that way, with a very poorly worded question about whether or not my constituents supported Bill <a data-HoCid=\"4097002\" href=\"/bills/40-2/C-50/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act and to increase benefits\">C-50</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1669063\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I would like to ask the same question of the member for <a data-HoCid=\"128305\" href=\"/politicians/robert-vincent/\" title=\"Robert Vincent\">Shefford</a>. Have his constituents spoken to him about Bill <a data-HoCid=\"4097002\" href=\"/bills/40-2/C-50/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act and to increase benefits\">C-50</a>? Have they told him, as my constituents told me, to oppose Bill C-50 since it serves no purpose?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1669061\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, ma question sera tr\u00e8s courte.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1669062\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Hier, le NPD tentait de me coincer, si je peux m'exprimer ainsi, avec une question tr\u00e8s mal formul\u00e9e qui visait \u00e0 savoir si les gens de ma circonscription \u00e9taient en accord ou pas avec le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"4097002\" href=\"/bills/40-2/C-50/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act and to increase benefits\">C-50</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1669063\" data-originallang=\"fr\">J'aimerais poser la m\u00eame question \u00e0 mon coll\u00e8gue de <a data-HoCid=\"128305\" href=\"/politicians/robert-vincent/\" title=\"Robert Vincent\">Shefford</a>. Des citoyens de son comt\u00e9 lui ont-il parl\u00e9 du projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"4097002\" href=\"/bills/40-2/C-50/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act and to increase benefits\">C-50</a>? Lui ont-ils dit, tout comme mes concitoyens me l'ont dit, de s'opposer au projet de loi C-50 \u00e9tant donn\u00e9 que c'est inutile?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2009/11/3/nicolas-dufour-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/nicolas-dufour/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1026/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2933845",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Employment Insurance Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2009/11/3/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2009%2F11%2F3%2F"
    }
}