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{
    "time": "2009-11-30 14:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Marc Garneau (Westmount\u2014Ville-Marie, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1735538\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives have spent less than one per cent of the $1.9 billion they announced for affordable housing 14 months ago. They have spent almost nothing of the $1.5 billion they announced for social housing in the last budget. I think we would all agree that these programs were intended to help the most vulnerable in our society at a particularly difficult time.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1735539\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Before the Conservatives blame the provinces and territories, let me ask them why have they not done everything humanly possible to expedite these important programs for those who need them the most?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1735538\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, les conservateurs ont d\u00e9pens\u00e9 moins de 1 p. 100 de la somme de 1,9 milliard de dollars qu'ils ont promis, il y a 14 mois, d'investir dans le logement abordable. Ils n'ont presque rien d\u00e9pens\u00e9 de la somme de 1,5 milliard de dollars consacr\u00e9e au logement social dans le dernier budget. Je pense que nous pouvons tous convenir du fait que ces programmes \u00e9taient cens\u00e9s venir en aide aux plus vuln\u00e9rables en ces temps particuli\u00e8rement durs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1735539\" data-originallang=\"en\">Avant que les conservateurs ne rejettent la faute sur les provinces et les territoires, j'aimerais savoir pourquoi ils n'ont pas fait tout en leur pouvoir pour acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer la mise en oeuvre de ces programmes si importants pour ceux qui en ont le plus besoin.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2009/11/30/marc-garneau-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/marc-garneau/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1046/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2982420",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Housing",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2009/11/30/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2009%2F11%2F30%2F"
    }
}