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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": "2013-04-15 14:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Right Hon. Stephen Harper (Prime Minister, CPC)",
"fr": "Le tr\u00e8s hon. Stephen Harper (premier ministre, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3274475\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, there are so many falsehoods in that preamble, I do not know where to begin.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3274476\" data-originallang=\"en\"> The facts are the following: this country, this government, has an outstanding job creation record compared to most of the developed world. More Canadians are working. More Canadians need work, and more employers need workers. At the same time, we are clear that we will make sure that the temporary foreign workers program will be used only as it is intended. We promised that in the budget. In spite of that, the NDP voted against it and then writes us to ask for more temporary foreign workers. They are the ones who have to explain their contradictions.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3274475\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le pr\u00e9ambule de cette question contient tellement de fausset\u00e9s que je ne sais pas par o\u00f9 commencer. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3274476\" data-originallang=\"en\">Voici les faits: Notre pays et le gouvernement actuel ont un bilan exceptionnel de cr\u00e9ation d'emplois comparativement \u00e0 la plupart des pays d\u00e9velopp\u00e9s. Le nombre de Canadiens qui travaillent a augment\u00e9. Le nombre de Canadiens \u00e0 la recherche d'un emploi a augment\u00e9, de m\u00eame que le nombre d'employeurs ayant besoin d'employ\u00e9s. Par ailleurs, nous r\u00e9pondons clairement que nous comptons nous assurer de la bonne utilisation du Programme des travailleurs \u00e9trangers temporaires, conform\u00e9ment \u00e0 l'objectif de ce programme. Nous l'avons promis dans le budget. Malgr\u00e9 cela, le NPD a vot\u00e9 contre et ne se g\u00eane pas pour nous \u00e9crire et nous demander d'augmenter le nombre de travailleurs temporaires. Ce sont eux qui devraient nous expliquer leurs contradictions.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2013/4/15/stephen-harper-5/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/stephen-harper/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1241/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "7956190",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Employment",
"fr": "L'emploi"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2013/4/15/",
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}
}