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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2013-01-29 14:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Jim Flaherty (Minister of Finance, CPC)",
"fr": "L'hon. Jim Flaherty (ministre des Finances, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3164856\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, there are two aspects to personal indebtedness, and one is mortgage insurance. We have moved four times to tighten that market and the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions also has in the past year. That has had a moderating effect on mortgage interest, which is important in Canada, and on the real estate market.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3164857\" data-originallang=\"en\">On the other hand, on credit cards, I have already explained. The facts are that credit card debt is going down in Canada. Canadians are getting the message to be careful about personal debt because interest rates are bound to rise inevitably.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3164856\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, il y a deux volets \u00e0 l'endettement personnel, et l'assurance hypoth\u00e9caire est l'un d'eux. Nous avons, \u00e0 quatre reprises, pris des mesures pour resserrer les r\u00e8gles qui r\u00e9gissent ce march\u00e9, et le Bureau du surintendant des institutions financi\u00e8res a fait de m\u00eame l'ann\u00e9e derni\u00e8re. Ces mesures ont permis de limiter la hausse des taux d'int\u00e9r\u00eat hypoth\u00e9caires, ce qui est important pour le Canada et pour le march\u00e9 immobilier.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3164857\" data-originallang=\"en\">Par ailleurs, en ce qui concerne les cartes de cr\u00e9dit, j'ai d\u00e9j\u00e0 tout expliqu\u00e9. L'endettement li\u00e9 aux cartes de cr\u00e9dit est en recul au Canada. De plus en plus de Canadiens comprennent qu'ils doivent g\u00e9rer leur dette personnelle de fa\u00e7on judicieuse parce qu'il ne fait aucun doute que les taux d'int\u00e9r\u00eat vont augmenter un jour ou l'autre.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2013/1/29/jim-flaherty-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/jim-flaherty/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/413/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "7857995",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "The Economy",
"fr": "L'\u00e9conomie"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2013/1/29/",
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}
}