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{
"time": "2010-06-01 13:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Michael Savage",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2000884\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, that is almost as unbelievable as having a stimulus program and then spending $100 million to tell everybody that we are having a stimulus program. This is the kind of voodoo economics and backward style of accounting the government is becoming well known for.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2000885\" data-originallang=\"en\">This is unbelievable to Canadians. Here we are with the worst economy in the history of our country. It is the worst deficit after the Conservatives inherited the best surplus in the history of this country and now the Conservatives are saying there is no better way of spending $1 billion than to have summits in Muskoka and Toronto, both of which are great communities. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2000886\" data-originallang=\"en\">The Conservatives have to take responsibility. They changed the terms of these summits. They are the ones who have allowed the costs to escalate. They are the ones who have to take responsibility. They have to answer to the people of Canada for this billion dollar boondoggle. Canadians are throwing their hands up in the air and saying that it does not make any sense.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2000884\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, c'est presque aussi incroyable que d'avoir un programme de relance, puis de d\u00e9penser 100 millions de dollars pour l'annoncer \u00e0 tout le monde. C'est le genre de mesure farfelue et de m\u00e9thode de comptabilit\u00e9 r\u00e9trograde qui sont en train de devenir la marque de commerce du gouvernement. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2000885\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les Canadiens n'en croient pas leurs yeux. Nous vivons la pire p\u00e9riode \u00e9conomique de notre histoire. Le d\u00e9ficit est le pire que nous ayons connu, malgr\u00e9 le fait que les conservateurs aient h\u00e9rit\u00e9 du plus grand exc\u00e9dent de l'histoire de notre pays. Or, voil\u00e0 que les conservateurs disent que la meilleure fa\u00e7on de d\u00e9penser 1 milliard de dollars c'est de tenir des sommets \u00e0 Muskoka et \u00e0 Toronto, qui sont deux magnifiques collectivit\u00e9s. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2000886\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les conservateurs doivent assumer leurs responsabilit\u00e9s. Ils ont modifi\u00e9 les modalit\u00e9s li\u00e9es \u00e0 ces sommets. Ce sont eux qui ont laiss\u00e9 les co\u00fbts grimper. Ce sont eux qui doivent en assumer la responsabilit\u00e9. Ils doivent rendre des comptes aux Canadiens, suite \u00e0 ce gaspillage d'un milliard de dollars. Les Canadiens sont d\u00e9courag\u00e9s et ils disent que cette situation n'a aucun sens.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2010/6/1/michael-savage-5/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/michael-savage/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/560/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3195306",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014G8 and G20 Summits",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2010/6/1/",
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}
}