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{
    "time": "2013-04-30 14:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Tony Clement (President of the Treasury Board and Minister for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario, CPC)",
        "fr": "L'hon. Tony Clement (pr\u00e9sident du Conseil du Tr\u00e9sor et ministre de l'Initiative f\u00e9d\u00e9rale du d\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique dans le Nord de l'Ontario, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3300500\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the budget and the Budget Implementation Act are quite clear in that part of our role is to improve the financial viability of crown corporations, including their compensation levels. We said that because we are on the side of the taxpayer. We want to make sure that crown corporations, like other government agencies, actually respect the taxpayer, and that includes within collective bargaining. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3300501\" data-originallang=\"en\">We know that we are on the side of the taxpayer, but which side are they on?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3300500\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le budget et la Loi d'ex\u00e9cution du budget \u00e9tablissent clairement que notre r\u00f4le consiste notamment \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer la viabilit\u00e9 \u00e9conomique des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s d'\u00c9tat, y compris les niveaux de r\u00e9mun\u00e9ration. Nous voulons faire en sorte que les soci\u00e9t\u00e9s d'\u00c9tat, tout comme les autres organismes gouvernementaux, respectent r\u00e9ellement les contribuables, et ce, \u00e9galement dans le cadre du processus de n\u00e9gociation collective. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3300501\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous savons que nous nous rangeons du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des contribuables, mais eux, de quel c\u00f4t\u00e9 sont-ils?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2013/4/30/tony-clement-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/tony-clement/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/376/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "7991145",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": "Questions orales"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Labour",
        "fr": "Le travail"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2013/4/30/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2013%2F4%2F30%2F"
    }
}