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{
    "time": "2011-02-07 14:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Gilles Duceppe (Laurier\u2014Sainte-Marie, BQ)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2298760\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, in a letter about the harmonization of the GST that was published in the newspapers, the Quebec finance minister, Raymond Bachand, said that the difference between the GST and the QST amounts to less than 1% of the GST tax base, which is well below the 5% authorized by the federal government. So, clearly, this is not the reason for the breakdown in negotiations.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2298761\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Can the minister therefore explain why the Conservative government is stubbornly refusing to give Quebec $2.2 billion in compensation?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2298760\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, dans une lettre parue dans les journaux concernant l'harmonisation de la TPS, le ministre des Finances du Qu\u00e9bec, Raymond Bachand, affirme que la diff\u00e9rence entre la TPS et la TVQ repr\u00e9sente moins de 1 p. 100 de l'assiette fiscale, ce qui est nettement inf\u00e9rieur \u00e0 la limite de 5 p. 100 autoris\u00e9e par le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral. Donc, c'est clair, les n\u00e9gociations dans ce dossier n'achoppent pas sur cet aspect. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2298761\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Le ministre peut-il alors nous expliquer pourquoi le gouvernement conservateur s'ent\u00eate \u00e0 ne pas indemniser le Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 la hauteur de 2,2 milliards de dollars?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2011/2/7/gilles-duceppe-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/gilles-duceppe/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/403/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "3720584",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Harmonization of Sales Taxes",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2011/2/7/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2011%2F2%2F7%2F"
    }
}