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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": "2009-12-03 14:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Jack Layton (Toronto\u2014Danforth, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1747905\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, while the <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">Prime Minister</a> is telling the Chinese about Canada's economic situation, Canadians are asking questions. The Conservatives are throwing out figures that do not add up. They are saying that 90% of the stimulus funds are already committed, but in the same breath they are threatening that the money that is not spent will disappear. That is a bunch of nonsense.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1747906\" data-originallang=\"fr\">People are not seeing the projects, and they are not seeing job creation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1747907\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Why create illusions and false hopes instead of real jobs for Canadians and the unemployed?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1747905\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, pendant que le <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">premier ministre</a> informe les Chinois de la situation \u00e9conomique du Canada, les Canadiens s'interrogent. Les conservateurs lancent des chiffres qui ne tiennent pas la route. Ils parlent de 90 p. 100 d\u00e9j\u00e0 engag\u00e9s, mais menacent du m\u00eame souffle que l'argent non d\u00e9pens\u00e9 va dispara\u00eetre. C'est n'importe quoi! </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1747906\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Les gens ne voient pas les projets et, surtout, ils ne voient pas la cr\u00e9ation d'emplois.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1747907\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Pourquoi cr\u00e9er des illusions et des faux espoirs plut\u00f4t que des vrais emplois pour les Canadiens et les ch\u00f4meurs?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2009/12/3/jack-layton-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/jack-layton/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1436/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2997250",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Foreign Affairs",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2009/12/3/",
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}
}