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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": "2010-11-26 11:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Diane Finley (Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, CPC)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2196147\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the fact is Canada has one of the very lowest rates of seniors poverty in the entire world, thanks to many of the measures that our government has brought in over the last few years, such as pension income splitting, raising the age credit, allowing people who are collecting the guaranteed income supplement to work and not get those dollars clawed back.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2196148\" data-originallang=\"en\">The unfortunate aspect of all this is the NDP members voted against every one of those measures to help lift seniors out of poverty. Shame on them.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2196147\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le Canada a l'un des plus faibles taux de pauvret\u00e9 chez les a\u00een\u00e9s au monde gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 bon nombre de mesures que notre gouvernement a prises au cours des quelques derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es. Je pense par exemple au fractionnement du revenu de pension et \u00e0 l'augmentation du cr\u00e9dit en raison de l'\u00e2ge, et au fait qu'on ait permis aux gens qui touchent le Suppl\u00e9ment de revenu garanti de travailler sans que leurs prestations soient r\u00e9duites. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2196148\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce qui est malheureux dans tout cela, c'est que les n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrates ont vot\u00e9 contre toutes ces mesures qui visaient \u00e0 aider les personnes \u00e2g\u00e9es \u00e0 sortir de la pauvret\u00e9. Ils devraient avoir honte. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2010/11/26/diane-finley-5/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/diane-finley/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1370/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3587147",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Taxation",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2010/11/26/",
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}