Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2015-06-15 18:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Dan Harris",
        "fr": "M. Dan Harris"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4160823\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, he might be a member from Toronto, but I am a member from Scarborough.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4160824\" data-originallang=\"en\">It is really funny that we are talking about transportation, because of course that member and several other GTA area Liberals called for the teardown of the Gardiner Expressway two weeks ago, yet the Liberal city councillor in my area, who is the co-chair of the federal Liberal candidate's campaign, voted to keep the Gardiner Expressway. That is an interesting juxtaposition. I do not know how they are going to square that circle.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4160825\" data-originallang=\"en\">As for the Scarborough subway, that is a great question. There was a plan in the city, which was fully funded by a provincial government, to provide LRT that would expand transit into the far reaches of Scarborough. It was fully funded. Then the member participated in debates and was part of a city council that actually changed its mind, changed its mind again, and changed its mind again. It ended up deciding to vote for a subway that is going to cost $1 billion more, which is not funded. Every person in Toronto is now paying an extra $7 to $8 of tax every time they get their property tax bills to pay for that subway that does not go any further into Scarborough than existing transit. It is going to cost $1 billion more, which leaves no money for the Sheppard LRT and which is not going to bring transit out to Centennial College, to the University of Toronto Scarborough campus, or to Malvern or Morningside Heights, where transit is desperately needed. That is what the they have done.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4160823\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 vient peut-\u00eatre de Toronto, mais je viens de Scarborough.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4160824\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il est tr\u00e8s amusant que nous parlions de transport, et c'est \u00e9videmment parce que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 d'en face et plusieurs autres lib\u00e9raux de la r\u00e9gion du Grand Toronto ont r\u00e9clam\u00e9 la d\u00e9molition de l'autoroute Gardiner il y a deux semaines. Or, le conseiller municipal lib\u00e9ral de mon secteur, qui est copr\u00e9sident de la campagne \u00e9lectorale du candidat du Parti lib\u00e9ral f\u00e9d\u00e9ral, a vot\u00e9 pour le maintien de cette autoroute. Le contraste est int\u00e9ressant. Je ne vois pas comment ils pourront expliquer cette contradiction.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4160825\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pour ce qui est du m\u00e9tro de Scarborough, la question est excellente. La ville avait un projet qui allait \u00eatre enti\u00e8rement financ\u00e9 par le gouvernement provincial pour mettre en place un r\u00e9seau de trains l\u00e9gers permettant d'assurer un service de transport en commun jusque dans les quartiers les plus \u00e9loign\u00e9s de Scarborough. Tout le financement n\u00e9cessaire \u00e9tait disponible. Or, le d\u00e9put\u00e9, qui a pris part aux d\u00e9bats \u00e0 ce sujet, faisait partie d'un conseil municipal qui changeait d'avis \u00e0 tout moment. Le conseil a fini par voter en faveur d'un projet de m\u00e9tro qui co\u00fbtera 1 milliard de dollars de plus et qui ne sera pas financ\u00e9 par le gouvernement. Tous les Torontois paient maintenant 7 $ ou 8 $ de plus chaque fois qu'ils paient leur imp\u00f4t foncier afin de financer cette ligne de m\u00e9tro qui ne se rendra pas plus loin dans la ville de Scarborough que ne le fait le service de transport en commun actuel. Ce projet co\u00fbtera 1 milliard de dollars de plus, ce qui ne laisse plus d'argent pour le r\u00e9seau de trains l\u00e9gers Sheppard. Ce n'est pas ce projet qui permettra d'assurer un service de transport en commun jusqu'au Centennial College, jusqu'au campus de Scarborough de l'Universit\u00e9 de Toronto, ni jusqu'\u00e0 Malvern ou Morningside Heights, o\u00f9 il y a un urgent besoin de transport en commun. Voil\u00e0 ce que ces gens ont fait.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2015/6/15/dan-harris-6/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/dan-harris/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4116/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8750957",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1",
        "fr": "Loi no 1 sur le plan d'action \u00e9conomique de 2015"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2015/6/15/",
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    }
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