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{
"time": "2016-01-25 19:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne",
"fr": "M. Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4178942\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for the question.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4178943\" data-originallang=\"fr\">That is precisely what we are doing. We are investing in the middle class. What my colleague said is not exactly true. In December, we cut taxes for the middle class. What we did fulfills one of the many promises that we intend to keep, such as creating the Canada child benefit, which will benefit nine million people in Canada. Indeed, nine out of 10 families will benefit.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4178944\" data-originallang=\"fr\">That is precisely what got us elected. We told Canadians that our priority was to invest in the middle class and provide benefits to Canadian families in order to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty. That is how we do things. That is exactly what we told Canadians during the election campaign, and that is exactly what we are doing today.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4178942\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'aimerais remercier mon honorable coll\u00e8gue de sa question. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4178943\" data-originallang=\"fr\">C'est exactement ce que nous faisons; nous investissons dans la classe moyenne. Ce que disait mon coll\u00e8gue n'\u00e9tait pas tout \u00e0 fait exact. En d\u00e9cembre, nous avons r\u00e9duit les imp\u00f4ts pour la classe moyenne. Ce que nous avons fait s'inscrit dans un nombre d'engagements que nous allons respecter, comme la cr\u00e9ation de l'allocation canadienne pour enfants, qui profitera \u00e0 9 millions de personnes au pays. En effet, 9 familles sur 10 en b\u00e9n\u00e9ficieront. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4178944\" data-originallang=\"fr\">C'est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment sur cette base que nous nous sommes fait \u00e9lire. Nous avons dit aux Canadiens que notre choix \u00e9tait d'investir dans la classe moyenne et de donner des allocations aux familles canadiennes, afin de sortir des centaines de milliers d'enfants de la pauvret\u00e9. C'est notre fa\u00e7on de faire. C'est exactement ce que nous avons dit aux Canadiens lors de la campagne \u00e9lectorale, et c'est exactement ce que nous faisons aujourd'hui. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2016/1/25/francois-philippe-champagne-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/francois-philippe-champagne/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4185/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8767151",
"h1": {
"en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
"fr": "Motion D'Ajournement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Taxation",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2016/1/25/",
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}
}