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{
    "time": "2012-10-01 15:55:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet",
        "fr": "Mme Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2985347\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I completely agree. The government should not have the right to touch that money because, as my colleague was saying, it is not the government's money. Furthermore, there is less and less money in this fund for workers.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2985348\" data-originallang=\"fr\">In the 19th century, families and religious groups would help people. I think we will have to go back to that because government help for the unemployed is dwindling. The social safety net is eroding, even disappearing. We will have to go back to having large families with lots of children and to helping everyone.<sup></sup></p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2985347\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je suis parfaitement d'accord sur cela. Le gouvernement ne devrait pas avoir le droit de toucher \u00e0 cet argent parce qu'il ne leur appartient pas, comme le disait mon coll\u00e8gue. En outre, l'argent de cette caisse qui est donn\u00e9 aux travailleurs est de moins en moins \u00e9lev\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2985348\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Au XIX<sup>e</sup> si\u00e8cle, c'\u00e9tait les familles et les groupes religieux qui aidaient les gens. Je pense qu'on devra revenir \u00e0 cela parce que l'\u00c9tat aide de moins en moins les ch\u00f4meurs. Le filet social est en train de s'effriter, de s'effondrer compl\u00e8tement. Il va falloir revenir aux grandes familles, avoir plein d'enfants et aider tout le monde.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2012/10/1/marjolaine-boutin-sweet-4/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/marjolaine-boutin-sweet/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4139/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "7696541",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Business of Supply",
        "fr": "Travaux des subsides"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Employment Insurance",
        "fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 L'assurance-emploi"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2012/10/1/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2012%2F10%2F1%2F"
    }
}