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{
    "time": "2010-11-26 11:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Dean Del Mastro (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage, CPC)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2196176\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, as we have noted before, the opposition coalition has never seen a tax it did not like. In fact it has never seen one it would not hike. We know that for a fact.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2196177\" data-originallang=\"en\">Loreena McKennitt, Juno Award winning singer-songwriter said, \u201cI would oppose the iTax. I would rather have a strict and predictable business model in which to conduct my business.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2196178\" data-originallang=\"en\">We can have that today. By unanimous consent, we could pass the copyright reforms today. Let us pass Bill <a data-HoCid=\"4567265\" href=\"/bills/40-3/C-32/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Copyright Act\">C-32</a>.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2196176\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, comme nous l'avons d\u00e9j\u00e0 fait remarquer, la coalition de l'opposition n'a jamais vu de taxe qui lui d\u00e9plaise. En fait, il n'y a pas de taxe qu'elle ne hausserait pas. De cela, nous sommes certains.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2196177\" data-originallang=\"en\">Loreena McKennitt, auteure-compositrice gagnante de prix Juno a d\u00e9clar\u00e9: \u00ab Je m'opposerais \u00e0 une iTaxe [...] je suis d'avis [...] qu'un mod\u00e8le op\u00e9rationnel identifiable et pr\u00e9visible est pr\u00e9f\u00e9rable [...]</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2196178\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous pouvons en avoir un aujourd'hui. Nous pourrions adopter aujourd'hui \u00e0 l'unanimit\u00e9 les r\u00e9formes propos\u00e9es au droit d'auteur. Adoptons le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"4567265\" href=\"/bills/40-3/C-32/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Copyright Act\">C-32</a>.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2010/11/26/dean-del-mastro-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/dean-del-mastro/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/392/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "3587179",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Copyright",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2010/11/26/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2010%2F11%2F26%2F"
    }
}