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{
"time": "2012-02-14 17:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Mike Sullivan",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2688833\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, the Conservatives believe that the invisible hand of the marketplace will deal with things like the $8.3 billion in bonuses to executives in the big banks of Canada. That is an obscene amount of money. Not only that, those banks made $25.5 billion in profit, most of which has been squirrelled away for a rainy day.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2688834\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I cannot remember the last time a bank opened a branch anywhere in Canada that would employ more people. Banks are not a part of the economic recovery, they are not part of the 600,000 supposed jobs that the Conservatives keep talking about. Those banks are making lots of profit. They are using it to pay their executives obscene bonuses and not to create jobs in Canada.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2688833\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, les conservateurs croient que la main invisible du march\u00e9 r\u00e9glera des probl\u00e8mes comme les 8,3 milliards de dollars en primes vers\u00e9es aux cadres des grandes banques canadiennes. C'est une somme d'autant plus ind\u00e9cente que ces banques ont r\u00e9alis\u00e9 des profits de 25,5 milliards de dollars, dont la plus grande partie a \u00e9t\u00e9 mise en r\u00e9serve pour les temps difficiles.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2688834\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je ne me souviens pas de la derni\u00e8re fois que l'ouverture d'une succursale bancaire au Canada a cr\u00e9\u00e9 des emplois. Les banques ne participent pas \u00e0 la reprise \u00e9conomique. Elles n'ont rien \u00e0 voir avec les 600 000 emplois suppos\u00e9ment cr\u00e9\u00e9s dont nous parlent sans cesse les conservateurs. Ces banques r\u00e9alisent beaucoup de profits, qu'elles utilisent pour payer \u00e0 leurs cadres des primes ind\u00e9centes. Elles ne cr\u00e9ent pas d'emplois au Canada.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2012/2/14/mike-sullivan-9/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/mike-sullivan/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4090/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "6606766",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Financial System Review Act",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2012/2/14/",
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}