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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2014-02-25 16:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Kevin Lamoureux",
"fr": "M. Kevin Lamoureux"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3590313\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, a significant amount of money has been allocated to infrastructure, but we need to put into perspective the time of its allocation. For example, if we say that we are going to invest $200 billion in infrastructure over a 50-year timeframe, that is not all that impressive.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3590314\" data-originallang=\"en\">The Conservative government says it is going to spend <em>x</em> number of dollars on infrastructure over a lengthy period of time, but it is holding off spending a lot of those infrastructure dollars in 2014 so it can maximize those dollars in 2015, which happens to be the year of the federal election. One can understand why people would be somewhat skeptical. Just because the Conservatives say a number, my advice to Canadians is not to believe them because quite often they distort the truth.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3590313\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, beaucoup d'argent a \u00e9t\u00e9 affect\u00e9 \u00e0 l'infrastructure, mais nous devons examiner ce financement en consid\u00e9rant la p\u00e9riode sur laquelle il s'\u00e9tend. Par exemple, si on propose un investissement dans l'infrastructure de 200 milliards de dollars sur une p\u00e9riode de 50 ans, ce n'est gu\u00e8re impressionnant.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3590314\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le gouvernement conservateur propose un investissement dans l'infrastructure qui s'\u00e9tend sur une longue p\u00e9riode, mais il ne veut pas d\u00e9penser une bonne partie de cet investissement en 2014 afin de pouvoir maximiser les d\u00e9penses en 2015, qui se trouve \u00e0 \u00eatre une ann\u00e9e d'\u00e9lections f\u00e9d\u00e9rales. On peut comprendre le scepticisme de certains. Lorsque les conservateurs avancent un chiffre, je recommande aux Canadiens de ne pas les croire, car ils d\u00e9forment souvent la v\u00e9rit\u00e9.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2014/2/25/kevin-lamoureux-10/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/kevin-lamoureux/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4032/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8244928",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "The Budget",
"fr": "Le budget"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Financial Statement of Minister of Finance",
"fr": "L'expos\u00e9 financier du ministre des Finances"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2014/2/25/",
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}
}