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speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2013-01-29 14:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mrs. Cheryl Gallant (Renfrew\u2014Nipissing\u2014Pembroke, CPC)",
"fr": "Mme Cheryl Gallant (Renfrew\u2014Nipissing\u2014Pembroke, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3164782\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, in recent weeks, Canadians from coast to coast to coast have faced chilling deep-freezes. These annual deep-freezes are nothing new in Canada. Every year, Canadians budget for increased home heating bills. Every year, Canadians make sacrifices to pay those bills. That is why our government has taken steps to make life more affordable for Canadians. Since 2006, we have cut taxes more than 140 times. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3164783\" data-originallang=\"en\">However, while our government is cutting taxes, the NDP is proposing a massive $21 billion job-killing carbon tax that would increase the cost of gas, groceries and home heating. For Canadians struggling to stay warm this winter, it is clear which party is on their side: our Conservative government.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3164782\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, ces derni\u00e8res semaines les Canadiens de tout le pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 confront\u00e9s \u00e0 des froids sib\u00e9riens. Ces vagues de froid annuelles n'ont rien de nouveau au Canada. Tous les ans, les Canadiens pr\u00e9voient un budget pour le chauffage et se serrent la ceinture pour payer les factures de chauffage. Le gouvernement a donc pris des mesures pour rendre la vie plus abordable aux Canadiens. Depuis 2006, nous avons r\u00e9duit les imp\u00f4ts et les taxes plus de 140 fois.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3164783\" data-originallang=\"en\">Toutefois, si le gouvernement r\u00e9duit les imp\u00f4ts, le NPD, lui, propose une taxe massive de 21 milliards de dollars sur le carbone qui ferait dispara\u00eetre des emplois et qui augmenterait le co\u00fbt de l'essence, de l'\u00e9picerie et du chauffage domestique. Pour les Canadiens qui ont peine \u00e0 se garder au chaud cet hiver, il ne fait aucun doute que c'est le gouvernement conservateur qui est de leur c\u00f4t\u00e9.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2013/1/29/cheryl-gallant-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/cheryl-gallant/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1416/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "7857844",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": "D\u00e9clarations De D\u00e9put\u00e9s"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Taxation",
"fr": "La fiscalit\u00e9"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2013/1/29/",
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}
}