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{
"time": "2012-04-26 13:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Jinny Jogindera Sims",
"fr": "Mme Jinny Jogindera Sims"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2811017\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague for his very well thought out question. It does not take rocket science. Actually, I think children in grade 1 would be able to understand that with this legislation, there will be more seniors living in poverty. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2811018\" data-originallang=\"en\">Whether I speak with elementary school kids, secondary school kids, people at my town hall meetings, or those who have come to raise concerns with me when I am grocery shopping or standing by a soccer field, this is what I hear from them. They do not want to see their seniors having to struggle the way they are seeing some of our seniors struggling in my riding. I know they are struggling in my riding. We are seeing that right across.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2811019\" data-originallang=\"en\">That reminds me that the budget officer actually said there was enough money in the system to make improvements for our seniors right now. The government, based on that, has decided to make it worse for seniors. Why do they not like seniors?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2811017\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je tiens \u00e0 remercier mon coll\u00e8gue de sa question, qui est extr\u00eamement sens\u00e9e. Ce n'est pas sorcier. En fait, je pense qu'un enfant de premi\u00e8re ann\u00e9e pourrait comprendre que cette mesure l\u00e9gislative fera en sorte qu'un plus grand nombre d'a\u00een\u00e9s vivront dans la pauvret\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2811018\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'est ce que me disent tous ceux avec qui je m'entretiens, qu'il s'agisse d'enfants du primaire, de jeunes du secondaire, de gens que je rencontre dans le cadre des assembl\u00e9es publiques que j'organise ou encore de personnes qui m'abordent \u00e0 l'\u00e9picerie ou au terrain de soccer pour me parler de leurs pr\u00e9occupations. Ils ne veulent pas que leurs a\u00een\u00e9s \u00e9prouvent des difficult\u00e9s comme celles qu'\u00e9prouvent d\u00e9j\u00e0 les a\u00een\u00e9s de ma circonscription. Je sais que ceux de ma circonscription ont de la difficult\u00e9 \u00e0 joindre les deux bouts. Nous le constatons fr\u00e9quemment.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2811019\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cela me rappelle que le directeur parlementaire du budget a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 qu'il y a assez d'argent dans le syst\u00e8me pour apporter d\u00e8s maintenant des am\u00e9liorations pour nos a\u00een\u00e9s. Malgr\u00e9 cela, le gouvernement a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de placer les a\u00een\u00e9s dans une position encore plus difficile. A-t-il quelque chose contre les a\u00een\u00e9s?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2012/4/26/jinny-sims-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/jinny-sims/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4105/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "7537457",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Pensions",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 Les pensions"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2012/4/26/",
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}
}