Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "2011-03-22 13:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Jean-Yves Laforest",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2411653\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, it is obvious that there would be disastrous consequences. When a nation loses its political weight in a place like Parliament, where Quebeckers send half their taxes, when it is deprived in a single stroke of a certain amount of balance in its representation, and when its weight is not recognized in Parliament, it is being told that it is not important and decisions can be made without it. That is the very negative message that Quebeckers are getting. According to the polls, the vast majority of Quebeckers totally disagree with a bill like this. </p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2411653\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, il est bien clair que les cons\u00e9quences seraient extr\u00eamement n\u00e9fastes. Quand une nation perd son poids politique \u00e0 un endroit comme le Parlement, o\u00f9 les Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois envoient la moiti\u00e9 de leurs imp\u00f4ts, qu'on les prive d'un seul coup d'une certaine proportionnalit\u00e9 quant \u00e0 la repr\u00e9sentation et qu'on ne reconna\u00eet pas leur poids \u00e0 l'int\u00e9rieur de cette structure, on leur dit qu'ils ne sont pas importants et qu'on peut agir sans eux. C'est le message tr\u00e8s n\u00e9gatif que les Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois re\u00e7oivent. D'apr\u00e8s les sondages qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 faits, la grande majorit\u00e9 de la population qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise est en complet d\u00e9saccord sur un tel projet de loi. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2011/3/22/jean-yves-laforest-4/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/jean-yves-laforest/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/464/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "3818473",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Democratic Representation Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2011/3/22/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2011%2F3%2F22%2F"
    }
}