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This is a single
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": "2010-12-15 16:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. John Rafferty (Thunder Bay\u2014Rainy River, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2259927\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present two petitions signed by literally thousands of Canadians, calling on the government to affirm that pension benefits are in fact deferred wages, to elevate defined benefit plans to secured status in the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, and to pass into law any legislation before it, such as Bill <a data-HoCid=\"4329007\" href=\"/bills/40-3/C-501/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (termination and severance pay)\">C-501</a>, that would achieve these objectives.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2259927\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'interviens aujourd'hui pour pr\u00e9senter deux p\u00e9titions sign\u00e9es par des milliers de Canadiens qui demandent au gouvernement de confirmer que les prestations de pensions constituent en r\u00e9alit\u00e9 une r\u00e9mun\u00e9ration diff\u00e9r\u00e9e, de faire en sorte que les r\u00e9gimes \u00e0 prestations d\u00e9termin\u00e9es soient consid\u00e9r\u00e9s comme des cr\u00e9ances garanties aux termes de la Loi sur la faillite et l'insolvabilit\u00e9 et de la Loi sur les arrangements avec les cr\u00e9anciers des compagnies et d'adopter sur-le-champ toute mesure dont il est saisi, comme le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"4329007\" href=\"/bills/40-3/C-501/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (termination and severance pay)\">C-501</a>, qui permettrait d'atteindre ces objectifs.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2010/12/15/john-rafferty-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/john-rafferty/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1166/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3688879",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Petitions",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Pension Protection",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2010/12/15/",
"related": {
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}
}