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{
"time": "2016-02-04 17:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Pierre Poilievre",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Pierre Poilievre"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4191978\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I first want to congratulate the member for some pretty impressive metaphors. He put those together rather well. I am going to avoid the metaphors and stick to the published facts, and I am going to use two sources.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4191979\" data-originallang=\"en\"> One is the \u201cFiscal Monitor\u201d that his finance minister authorized the publication of just last week. It showed that in the months immediately preceding his government taking office, in fact, Canada had an accumulated surplus of $1 billion. According to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, in a document that was published in November as well, the PBO had a projected surplus of $1.2 billion for the present fiscal year. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4191980\" data-originallang=\"en\">These are not Conservative sources and these are not books that were on the Conservative stove. We do not put our books on stoves because we do not believe in burning books. These books tell us that Canada is in surplus and that means sunny ways for us all.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4191978\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je tiens tout d'abord \u00e0 f\u00e9liciter le d\u00e9put\u00e9 pour ses impressionnantes m\u00e9taphores. Elles sont plut\u00f4t bien ficel\u00e9es. Pour ma part, je vais \u00e9viter les m\u00e9taphores et je vais m'en tenir aux faits publi\u00e9s. Je citerai deux sources.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4191979\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'une des sources est <em>La revue financi\u00e8re</em>, dont le ministre des Finances du d\u00e9put\u00e9 a autoris\u00e9 la publication la semaine derni\u00e8re. Il y est indiqu\u00e9 qu'au cours des mois pr\u00e9c\u00e9dant imm\u00e9diatement l'arriv\u00e9e au pouvoir du gouvernement lib\u00e9ral, le Canada avait, en fait, accumul\u00e9 un exc\u00e9dent de 1 milliard de dollars. Dans un document publi\u00e9 en novembre \u00e9galement, le directeur parlementaire du budget pr\u00e9voyait un exc\u00e9dent de l'ordre de 1,2 milliard de dollars pour l'exercice en cours.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4191980\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il ne s'agit pas de sources conservatrices non plus de livres cuisin\u00e9s par les conservateurs. Nous ne cuisinons pas nos livres parce que nous ne croyons pas qu'il faut br\u00fbler les livres. Ces livres nous disent que le Canada a enregistr\u00e9 un exc\u00e9dent et que de beaux jours nous attendent tous.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2016/2/4/pierre-poilievre-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/pierre-poilievre/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4214/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8782625",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des Subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Department of Finance",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 Le ministre des Finances"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2016/2/4/",
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}
}