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{
"time": "2015-03-23 14:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Minister of Employment and Social Development and Minister for Democratic Reform, CPC)",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Pierre Poilievre (ministre de l\u2019Emploi et du D\u00e9veloppement social et ministre de la R\u00e9forme d\u00e9mocratique, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4021495\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, we have a plan; it is called the low-tax plan. That is precisely why the Liberals cannot recognize it, because they cannot recognize anything called low tax. Their only idea on jobs is to raise taxes on people who create them. That is the equivalent of thinking that a budget will simply balance itself.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4021496\" data-originallang=\"en\"> We have lowered taxes and created $1.2 million net new jobs, 85% of them full-time and two-thirds in high wage sectors. We will continue to lower taxes and continue to increase employment.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4021495\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, nous avons un plan, il s'agit du plan de r\u00e9duction des imp\u00f4ts. Si les lib\u00e9raux ont tant de mal \u00e0 le reconna\u00eetre, c'est parce que la r\u00e9duction des imp\u00f4ts est un concept qui leur est \u00e9tranger. Leur seule id\u00e9e en ce qui concerne l'emploi consiste \u00e0 augmenter le fardeau fiscal des cr\u00e9ateurs d'emplois. C'est du m\u00eame niveau que d'affirmer que les budgets s'\u00e9quilibrent d'eux-m\u00eames.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4021496\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous avons r\u00e9duit les imp\u00f4ts et cr\u00e9\u00e9, net, 1,2 million emplois, dont 85 % sont \u00e0 temps plein et les deux tiers sont dans des secteurs bien r\u00e9mun\u00e9r\u00e9s. Nous continuerons de r\u00e9duire les imp\u00f4ts et de cr\u00e9er des emplois.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2015/3/23/pierre-poilievre-5/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/pierre-poilievre/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1394/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8617633",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Employment",
"fr": "L'emploi"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2015/3/23/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2015%2F3%2F23%2F"
}
}