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{
    "time": "2016-06-17 10:55:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Kevin Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.)",
        "fr": "M. Kevin Lamoureux (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire du leader du gouvernement \u00e0 la Chambre des communes, Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4435708\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I totally disagree with the member. This middle-class tax cut is going to provide tax relief to over nine million Canadians, hundreds of millions of dollars. We are talking about farmers, teachers, and all sorts of professions.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4435709\" data-originallang=\"en\">Why does the member and the NDP choose to disagree in allowing for Canada's middle class, those teachers, manufacturing workers, that hard-working middle class, to have a tax break?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4435708\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je ne suis pas du tout d\u2019accord avec le d\u00e9put\u00e9. La r\u00e9duction d\u2019imp\u00f4t pour la classe moyenne va all\u00e9ger le fardeau fiscal de plus de 9 millions de Canadiens, ce qui correspond \u00e0 des centaines de millions de dollars. Cette mesure profitera \u00e0 des agriculteurs, \u00e0 des enseignants, et \u00e0 bien d\u2019autres professionnels.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4435709\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Pourquoi le d\u00e9put\u00e9 et le NPD ont-ils d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de s\u2019opposer \u00e0 l\u2019all\u00e9gement fiscal dont b\u00e9n\u00e9ficiera la classe moyenne, c'est-\u00e0-dire les enseignants, les travailleurs du secteur manufacturier et toutes ces autres personnes qui travaillent si fort? </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2016/6/17/kevin-lamoureux-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/kevin-lamoureux/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4032/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "9010088",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Income Tax Act",
        "fr": "La Loi de l'imp\u00f4t sur le revenu"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2016/6/17/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2016%2F6%2F17%2F"
    }
}