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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": "2015-04-24 12:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Brent Rathgeber (Edmonton\u2014St. Albert, Ind.)",
"fr": "M. Brent Rathgeber (Edmonton\u2014St. Albert, Ind.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4062407\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, budget 2015 predicts a $3.6 billion employment insurance surplus, which the government is using as a revenue source in order to balance its budget. However, the number of Albertans applying for employment insurance benefits rose by a startling almost 30% in February. Now that the EI surplus has been depleted, how will the government fund the anticipated spike in employment insurance claims?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4062407\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le budget de 2015 pr\u00e9voit un surplus de 3,6 milliards dans la caisse d'assurance-emploi, dont le gouvernement se sert comme source de revenus pour atteindre l'\u00e9quilibre budg\u00e9taire. Toutefois, le nombre de demandes d'assurance-emploi en Alberta a bondi de presque 30 % en f\u00e9vrier. Maintenant que le surplus de la caisse d'assurance-emploi est \u00e9puis\u00e9, comment le gouvernement entend-il financer la hausse anticip\u00e9e des demandes de prestations d'assurance-emploi?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2015/4/24/brent-rathgeber-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/brent-rathgeber/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4157/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8662379",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Employment Insurance",
"fr": "L'assurance-emploi"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2015/4/24/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2015%2F4%2F24%2F"
}
}