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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": "2016-06-01 14:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Kent Hehr (Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, Lib.)",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Kent Hehr (ministre des Anciens Combattants et ministre associ\u00e9 de la D\u00e9fense nationale, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4395606\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, in budget 2016 we fulfilled our mandate commitment to increase earnings loss benefit to 90% of a veteran's pre-release salary, up from 75%. We committed $5.6 billion in financial security to veterans in budget 2016. No veteran will receive less as a result of these changes, and I am looking forward to many, many more veterans having more money in their pocket to build their lives.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4395606\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, dans le budget de 2016, nous avons respect\u00e9 l'engagement pris en vertu de notre mandat de porter de 75 % \u00e0 90 % de la solde avant la lib\u00e9ration l'allocation pour perte de revenus vers\u00e9e aux anciens combattants. Dans le budget de 2016, nous nous sommes engag\u00e9s \u00e0 affecter 5,6 milliards de dollars \u00e0 la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 financi\u00e8re des anciens combattants. Aucun ancien combattant ne recevra moins en raison de ces changements, et j'esp\u00e8re qu'ils seront beaucoup plus nombreux \u00e0 avoir plus d'argent pour vivre.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2016/6/1/kent-hehr-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/kent-hehr/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4391/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8956110",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Veterans Affairs",
"fr": "Les anciens combattants"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2016/6/1/",
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}
}