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{
    "time": "2014-12-09 15:50:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Jasbir Sandhu",
        "fr": "M. Jasbir Sandhu"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3937081\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I was a small businessman before I became a member of Parliament, and I know the very issues that concern small businesses. It looks like the Conservatives never get outside the Ottawa bubble. This demonstrates their Ottawa bubble.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3937082\" data-originallang=\"en\">I will tell members what small businesses want. They want the Visa and MasterCard fees to be lowered. They are being gouged by those corporations. They want bank fees lowered for Interac and all of that. They want small business taxes reduced, and that is what New Democrats will bring to Ottawa in 2015 when we form the government.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3937081\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, avant d'\u00eatre \u00e9lu au Parlement, j'ai \u00e9t\u00e9 propri\u00e9taire d'une petite entreprise et je connais les pr\u00e9occupations des petites entreprises. On dirait que les conservateurs ne sortent jamais de leur bulle \u00e0 Ottawa. Leur discours le confirme.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3937082\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je vais dire aux d\u00e9put\u00e9s ce que veulent les petites entreprises. Elles veulent une diminution des frais Visa et MasterCard. Elles se font arnaquer par ces soci\u00e9t\u00e9s. Elles veulent une diminution des frais bancaires sur les op\u00e9rations Interac et les op\u00e9rations semblables. Elles veulent une r\u00e9duction de leurs imp\u00f4ts et c'est ce que les n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrates apporteront \u00e0 Ottawa lorsque nous formerons le gouvernement.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2014/12/9/jasbir-sandhu-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/jasbir-sandhu/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4109/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8549001",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 2",
        "fr": "Loi no 2 sur le plan d'action \u00e9conomique de 2014"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2014/12/9/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2014%2F12%2F9%2F"
    }
}