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{
    "time": "2010-03-09 14:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Gilles Duceppe (Laurier\u2014Sainte-Marie, BQ)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1801893\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the government announced that it was abolishing vacant positions. Now that is really something.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1801894\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Meanwhile, the same government is announcing and creating new layers of bureaucracy such as a body to review bureaucratic spending and a Canada-wide securities commission, which will cost $165 million starting this year.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1801895\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Does the <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">Prime Minister</a> realize that by creating more bureaucracy, he is adding to his budget spending? Is that how this government proposes to save money?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1801893\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, hier, le gouvernement a annonc\u00e9 l'abolition de postes vacants. Il faut quand m\u00eame le faire!</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1801894\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Pendant ce temps, ce m\u00eame gouvernement annonce et cr\u00e9e de nouvelles structures bureaucratiques. C'est ainsi qu'il a annonc\u00e9 la cr\u00e9ation d'une commission sur la r\u00e9vision des d\u00e9penses bureaucratiques et d'une commission pancanadienne des valeurs mobili\u00e8res, qui co\u00fbteront 165 millions de dollars d\u00e8s cette ann\u00e9e.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1801895\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Le <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">premier ministre</a> r\u00e9alise-t-il qu'en cr\u00e9ant davantage de structures bureaucratiques, il augmente ses d\u00e9penses budg\u00e9taires? Est-ce \u00e7a, les belles \u00e9conomies de ce gouvernement?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2010/3/9/gilles-duceppe-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/gilles-duceppe/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/403/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "3026499",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Government Spending",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2010/3/9/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2010%2F3%2F9%2F"
    }
}