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{
"time": "2018-10-04 14:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Scott Duvall (Hamilton Mountain, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Scott Duvall (Hamilton Mountain, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5553420\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, this summer, the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a> appointed the <a data-HoCid=\"241631\" href=\"/politicians/filomena-tassi/\" title=\"Filomena Tassi\">Minister of Seniors</a> with a mandate to conduct hearings and to protect workers' pensions. So far, Canadian workers and retirees have heard nothing. The Liberal rank and file passed a motion at their convention to fix Canada's flawed bankruptcy legislation. A Liberal senator introduced a bill to do the same thing. On my cross-country pension theft tour, Canadians made it clear that they expected the government to fix this problem.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5553421\" data-originallang=\"en\">Why is the <a data-HoCid=\"241631\" href=\"/politicians/filomena-tassi/\" title=\"Filomena Tassi\">minister</a> refusing to listen to Canadian workers and retirees?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5553420\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, cet \u00e9t\u00e9, le <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> a demand\u00e9 \u00e0 la <a data-HoCid=\"241631\" href=\"/politicians/filomena-tassi/\" title=\"Filomena Tassi\">ministre des A\u00een\u00e9s</a> d'organiser des audiences et de faire le n\u00e9cessaire pour prot\u00e9ger les r\u00e9gimes de retraite des travailleurs. Or, les travailleurs et les retrait\u00e9s du pays attendent toujours. Les militants lib\u00e9raux ont profit\u00e9 de leur congr\u00e8s pour adopter une motion visant \u00e0 corriger les lacunes de la l\u00e9gislation canadienne sur la faillite. Un s\u00e9nateur lib\u00e9ral a m\u00eame pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 un projet de loi en ce sens. Lorsque j'ai sillonn\u00e9 le pays pour d\u00e9noncer le vol des pensions, les Canadiens m'ont clairement signifi\u00e9 qu'ils s'attendent \u00e0 ce que le gouvernement r\u00e8gle ce probl\u00e8me.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5553421\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pourquoi la <a data-HoCid=\"241631\" href=\"/politicians/filomena-tassi/\" title=\"Filomena Tassi\">ministre</a> refuse-t-elle d'\u00e9couter les travailleurs et les retrait\u00e9s du Canada?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2018/10/4/scott-duvall-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/scott-duvall/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4308/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10289839",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Seniors",
"fr": "Les a\u00een\u00e9s"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2018/10/4/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2018%2F10%2F4%2F"
}
}