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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2015-04-29 16:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Linda Duncan",
"fr": "Mme Linda Duncan"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4068528\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, while I appreciate the member's focus on the <a data-HoCid=\"204553\" href=\"/politicians/joe-oliver/\" title=\"Joe Oliver\">Minister of Finance</a>, to tell the truth, I spread the blame across the cabinet and the backbenchers, including the backbenchers and the cabinet ministers from my province of Alberta. The responsibility falls on all the members on the government side of this place for failing to deliver on these important matters. They stood by and allowed the government to balance the budget by simply not transferring money now, but in two to four years from now, to address the most critical needs faced by my constituents and theirs, such as transit, health care, opportunity for education, giving our aboriginal Canadians equal opportunity within our country. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4068529\" data-originallang=\"en\">Yes, the <a data-HoCid=\"204553\" href=\"/politicians/joe-oliver/\" title=\"Joe Oliver\">Minister of Finance</a> should defend his budget, but it is just as important that the other ministers defend how they are underspending in their portfolios and going in the wrong direction when it comes to priorities for our country.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4068528\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, m\u00eame si je comprends que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 vise surtout le <a data-HoCid=\"204553\" href=\"/politicians/joe-oliver/\" title=\"Joe Oliver\">ministre des Finances</a>, \u00e0 vrai dire, je jette \u00e9galement le bl\u00e2me sur l'ensemble du Cabinet ainsi que sur les d\u00e9put\u00e9s d'arri\u00e8re-ban, y compris les ministres et les d\u00e9put\u00e9s d'arri\u00e8re-ban qui viennent de ma province, l'Alberta. Ce sont tous les minist\u00e9riels qui doivent r\u00e9pondre de l'inaction du gouvernement dans ces dossiers importants. Ils ont laiss\u00e9 le gouvernement \u00e9quilibrer le budget simplement en d\u00e9cidant de transf\u00e9rer, non pas maintenant mais dans deux \u00e0 quatre ans, l'argent n\u00e9cessaire pour r\u00e9pondre aux besoins les plus essentiels de mes \u00e9lecteurs et des leurs, notamment en ce qui a trait au transport en commun, \u00e0 la sant\u00e9, \u00e0 l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 l'\u00e9ducation et aux initiatives qui permettent d'offrir des chances \u00e9gales aux Autochtones de notre pays.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4068529\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il est vrai que le <a data-HoCid=\"204553\" href=\"/politicians/joe-oliver/\" title=\"Joe Oliver\">ministre des Finances</a> devrait justifier les mesures de son budget, mais il est tout aussi important que les autres ministres expliquent pourquoi ils sous-utilisent leurs enveloppes budg\u00e9taires et vont \u00e0 l'encontre des objectifs prioritaires de notre pays.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2015/4/29/linda-duncan-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/linda-duncan/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1029/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8671145",
"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/2015/4/29/",
"related": {
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}
}