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{
"time": "2017-11-02 14:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Lisa Raitt (Milton, CPC)",
"fr": "L'hon. Lisa Raitt (Milton, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5099557\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, since the <a data-HoCid=\"214320\" href=\"/politicians/bill-morneau/\" title=\"Bill Morneau\">finance minister</a> has been exposed for hiding his assets in numerous multi-numbered companies, the Ethics Commissioner has stated that there are up to five other ministers who may be doing exactly the same thing.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5099558\" data-originallang=\"en\">There is an unnamed senior government official who has decided to refute these claims, suggesting that the claims are actually wrong and her office is not correct in what it is saying.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5099559\" data-originallang=\"en\">I would like to know this. The minister talks about trusting the Ethics Commissioner. Is there a senior government official over there who will actually say that there is no other minister in the same position he put himself in?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5099557\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, depuis qu'on a d\u00e9couvert que le <a data-HoCid=\"214320\" href=\"/politicians/bill-morneau/\" title=\"Bill Morneau\">ministre des Finances</a> avait cach\u00e9 ses actifs dans plusieurs soci\u00e9t\u00e9s \u00e0 num\u00e9ro, la commissaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9thique a fait savoir que jusqu'\u00e0 cinq autres ministres auraient peut-\u00eatre fait exactement la m\u00eame chose.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5099558\" data-originallang=\"en\">Un haut fonctionnaire non identifi\u00e9 a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de r\u00e9futer ces affirmations en laissant entendre que celles-ci sont fausses et que le bureau de la commissaire a tort.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5099559\" data-originallang=\"en\">Voici ce que nous aimerions savoir. Le ministre dit qu'il faut faire confiance \u00e0 la commissaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9thique. Y a-t-il un haut fonctionnaire qui va dire qu'aucun autre ministre ne se trouve dans la m\u00eame position que le ministre des Finances?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2017/11/2/lisa-raitt-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/lisa-raitt/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4273/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "9758496",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Ethics",
"fr": "L'\u00e9thique"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2017/11/2/",
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}
}