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This is a single
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": "2014-01-30 14:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Annick Papillon (Qu\u00e9bec, NDP)",
"fr": "Mme Annick Papillon (Qu\u00e9bec, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3554088\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, Canadians are going deeper and deeper into debt, and they are being gouged by excessive credit card interest rates. In the meantime, the banks collected more than $30 billion last year. By refusing to crack down on the banks, the <a data-HoCid=\"78777\" href=\"/politicians/jim-flaherty/\" title=\"Jim Flaherty\">Minister of Finance</a> is choosing to defend the banks' interests over consumers' interests, even though the Conservatives claim to stand up for consumers. What tangible things will the Conservatives do to reduce credit card interest rates?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3554088\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, les Canadiens s'endettent de plus en plus et ils se font arnaquer par des taux d'int\u00e9r\u00eat abusifs sur leurs cartes de cr\u00e9dit. Pendant ce temps, les banques, elles, ont accumul\u00e9 plus de 30 milliards de dollars l'an dernier. En refusant de serrer la vis aux banques, le <a data-HoCid=\"78777\" href=\"/politicians/jim-flaherty/\" title=\"Jim Flaherty\">ministre des Finances</a> fait le choix de d\u00e9fendre les int\u00e9r\u00eats des banques au d\u00e9triment des int\u00e9r\u00eats des consommateurs. Or les conservateurs pr\u00e9tendent d\u00e9fendre les consommateurs. Que feront-ils, concr\u00e8tement, pour r\u00e9duire le taux d'int\u00e9r\u00eat des cartes de cr\u00e9dit?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2014/1/30/annick-papillon-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/annick-papillon/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4068/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8208441",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Consumer Protection",
"fr": "La protection des consommateurs"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2014/1/30/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2014%2F1%2F30%2F"
}
}