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{
    "time": "2009-09-15 14:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Gilles Duceppe (Laurier\u2014Sainte-Marie, BQ)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1592967\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, yesterday the government announced new employment insurance measures, but many questions remain unanswered. For example, will this measure help workers in the forestry industry, which has been going through a very hard time for years, particularly in Quebec? Will this measure help workers in the pulp and paper industry, where several mills have been going through intermittent closures?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1592968\" data-originallang=\"fr\">In other words, the Conservative government may have good intentions, but will its conditions not deny lots of what it calls long-tenured workers access to additional weeks of benefits?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1592967\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, hier, le gouvernement a annonc\u00e9 de nouvelles mesures concernant l'assurance-emploi. Toutefois, beaucoup de questions demeurent sans r\u00e9ponse. Par exemple, est-ce que cette mesure va aider les travailleurs de la for\u00eat, un secteur qui conna\u00eet des difficult\u00e9s, particuli\u00e8rement au Qu\u00e9bec, depuis des ann\u00e9es? Est-ce que cette mesure va aider les travailleurs des p\u00e2tes et papier, dont certaines entreprises ferment de fa\u00e7on intermittente?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1592968\" data-originallang=\"fr\">En d'autres mots, au-del\u00e0 des bonnes intentions, les conditions exig\u00e9es par le gouvernement conservateur n'emp\u00eacheront-elles pas bon nombre de travailleurs, qu'il qualifie de longue dur\u00e9e, d'avoir acc\u00e8s aux semaines de prestations additionnelles?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2009/9/15/gilles-duceppe-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/gilles-duceppe/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/403/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2859328",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Employment Insurance",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2009/9/15/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2009%2F9%2F15%2F"
    }
}