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{
"time": "2017-05-04 14:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Harjit S. Sajjan (Minister of National Defence, Lib.)",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Harjit S. Sajjan (ministre de la D\u00e9fense nationale, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4857783\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, since we formed government, we have maintained the spending levels and planned increases while conducting the defence policy review, and we are developing a new policy for Canada, a rigorously costed plan that will put the Canadian Armed Forces on a sustainable footing.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4857784\" data-originallang=\"en\">The Conservative rhetoric simply does not match up with the facts. After years of cuts and underspending, we are now in a troubling position where even the status quo of spending on defence will not maintain the status quo of capability. Our new defence policy is going to fix that.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4857783\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, depuis notre arriv\u00e9e au pouvoir, nous avons entrepris un examen de la politique de d\u00e9fense, pendant lequel nous avons maintenu les d\u00e9penses et les augmentations aux niveaux d\u00e9j\u00e0 pr\u00e9vus. Nous \u00e9laborons actuellement une nouvelle politique, un plan fond\u00e9 sur une analyse de co\u00fbts rigoureuse, qui cr\u00e9era des assises financi\u00e8res durables pour les Forces arm\u00e9es canadiennes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4857784\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les discours des conservateurs ne correspondent tout simplement pas \u00e0 la r\u00e9alit\u00e9. Apr\u00e8s des ann\u00e9es de coupes et de sous-financement, nous nous trouvons dans une situation \u00e9pineuse, puisque le maintien des d\u00e9penses actuelles ne permettra pas de conserver les capacit\u00e9s actuelles. La nouvelle politique de d\u00e9fense viendra rectifier la situation.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2017/5/4/harjit-s-sajjan-5/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/harjit-s-sajjan/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4399/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "9502453",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "National Defence",
"fr": "La d\u00e9fense nationale"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2017/5/4/",
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}
}