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{
"time": "2009-05-11 14:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Hedy Fry (Vancouver Centre, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1463172\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the <a data-HoCid=\"128694\" href=\"/politicians/diane-finley/\" title=\"Diane Finley\">Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development</a> must be lost somewhere in the twilight zone.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1463173\" data-originallang=\"en\">When asked to improve access to EI benefits in regions like B.C. where access requirements are among the toughest, she continues to mislead by referring to the added five weeks of benefits, which might as well be 500 weeks to those who cannot get access.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1463174\" data-originallang=\"en\">Does the minister not understand that, in a recession, her rigid qualification rules just do not work?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1463172\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, la <a data-HoCid=\"128694\" href=\"/politicians/diane-finley/\" title=\"Diane Finley\">ministre des Ressources humaines et du D\u00e9veloppement des comp\u00e9tences</a> doit \u00eatre perdue quelque part dans un univers parall\u00e8le.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1463173\" data-originallang=\"en\">On lui demande d'am\u00e9liorer l'acc\u00e8s aux prestations d'assurance-emploi dans les r\u00e9gions, comme la Colombie-Britannique, o\u00f9 les conditions d'acc\u00e8s comptent parmi les plus rigoureuses, mais elle continue d'induire les gens en erreur en parlant des cinq semaines suppl\u00e9mentaires de prestations. Ajouter cinq ou cinq cents semaines ne fait rien pour aider ceux qui n'y ont pas acc\u00e8s.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1463174\" data-originallang=\"en\">La ministre ne comprend-elle pas que ses r\u00e8gles d'admissibilit\u00e9 strictes ne fonctionnent pas en p\u00e9riode de r\u00e9cession?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2009/5/11/hedy-fry-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/hedy-fry/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3102/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2755396",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Employment Insurance",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2009/5/11/",
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}