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{
"time": "2017-11-06 16:35:00",
"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 de la leader du gouvernement \u00e0 la Chambre des communes, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5106644\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, one of the consistent comments we get from the Conservative opposition is concern about the deficit. It is important to realize a bit of the history of deficits. When Stephen Harper was prime minister, he inherited a multi-billion dollar surplus and turned it into a multi-billion dollar deficit, even before the Canadian recession got under way. Year after year, the Harper government had nothing but deficit after deficit. In fact, I suspect we would find that the Harper government accumulated more in those annual deficits than in the history of any other prime minister, in terms of real dollars. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5106645\" data-originallang=\"en\">Given how disastrous the Harper government was in dealing with the deficit, why should any government take advice from a Conservative government that did so poorly and generated so little in terms of actual economic activity, especially compared to what we have done in the last couple of years? </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5106644\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, les d\u00e9put\u00e9s de l'opposition conservatrice n'arr\u00eatent pas de nous dire qu'ils sont inquiets au sujet du d\u00e9ficit. Or, il est important de retracer un peu l'historique des d\u00e9ficits. Lorsqu'il est arriv\u00e9 au pouvoir, l'ancien premier ministre Stephen Harper a h\u00e9rit\u00e9 d'un exc\u00e9dent de plusieurs milliards de dollars, qu'il a transform\u00e9 en d\u00e9ficit de plusieurs milliards de dollars, et ce, avant m\u00eame que la r\u00e9cession commence \u00e0 frapper le Canada. Ann\u00e9e apr\u00e8s ann\u00e9e, le gouvernement Harper n'a fait qu'accumuler des d\u00e9ficits. D'ailleurs, je pense que, en dollars r\u00e9els, le gouvernement Harper a enregistr\u00e9, au total, des d\u00e9ficits annuels plus \u00e9lev\u00e9s que tout autre gouvernement dans l'histoire du pays.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5106645\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pourquoi le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral accepterait-il des conseils des conservateurs, qui, lorsqu'ils \u00e9taient au pouvoir, ont g\u00e9r\u00e9 de fa\u00e7on d\u00e9sastreuse les d\u00e9ficits et ont g\u00e9n\u00e9r\u00e9 tr\u00e8s peu d'activit\u00e9 \u00e9conomique, surtout quand on constate tout ce que nous avons fait depuis deux ans?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2017/11/6/kevin-lamoureux-7/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/kevin-lamoureux/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4032/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "9764270",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 2",
"fr": "Loi no 2 d'ex\u00e9cution du budget de 2017"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2017/11/6/",
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}
}