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{
    "time": "2018-11-01 11:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Peter Julian (New Westminster\u2014Burnaby, NDP)",
        "fr": "M. Peter Julian (New Westminster\u2014Burnaby, NPD)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5626013\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I simply do not share the hon. member's rose-coloured point of view, when Canadians are going through a profound family-debt crisis, the worst in the OCD among all industrialized countries. Canadians have more family debt than any other industrialized country in the world. At the same time, in various parts of the country, we are experiencing the worst housing crisis we have ever seen. I can tell colleagues, coming from the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, how profound it is that the federal government is refusing to take any action in any meaningful way in terms of building new housing. The government will, perhaps, if the Liberals are re-elected, they say, but they are not willing to take any action now.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5626014\" data-originallang=\"en\">My question is related to this monstrosity. This is the largest omnibus legislation in Canadian history, despite the fact that the Liberals always decried this prior to coming to power. I have been asking all week a very simple question. It is very germane, of course. I have been asking departmental officials how many clauses and subclauses exist in this massive omnibus bill. It is very germane, because if we have 5,000 clauses, with the Liberals bulldozing through this legislation, we may be looking at nine seconds per consideration of each subclause, and nine seconds at committee as well.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5626015\" data-originallang=\"en\">My simple question is this, and I have asked it repeatedly. How many clauses and subclauses are in this massive omnibus legislation?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5626013\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je ne partage tout simplement pas le point de vue id\u00e9aliste du d\u00e9put\u00e9 alors que les Canadiens sont aux prises avec une grave crise d'endettement des m\u00e9nages et qu'ils affichent \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard la pire situation de tous les pays industrialis\u00e9s de l'OCDE. Les m\u00e9nages canadiens ont davantage de dettes que ceux des autres pays industrialis\u00e9s du monde. Parall\u00e8lement, diverses r\u00e9gions du pays connaissent la pire crise du logement qu'on ait jamais vue. Comme je viens de la vall\u00e9e du bas Fraser de la Colombie-Britannique, je suis en mesure de dire \u00e0 mes coll\u00e8gues que la situation est extr\u00eamement grave et que le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral refuse de prendre des mesures concr\u00e8tes pour la construction de nouveaux logements. Les lib\u00e9raux disent que, s'ils sont r\u00e9\u00e9lus, ils s'attaqueront peut-\u00eatre au probl\u00e8me mais que, pour l'instant, ils ne feront rien. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5626014\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ma question porte sur cette monstruosit\u00e9 de projet de loi. Les lib\u00e9raux ont pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 la plus grosse mesure omnibus de l'histoire canadienne, m\u00eame s'ils ont syst\u00e9matiquement d\u00e9cri\u00e9 ce genre de pratique avant d'arriver au pouvoir. Toute la semaine, j'ai pos\u00e9 une question fort simple mais qui, \u00e9videmment, est tr\u00e8s pertinente. J'ai demand\u00e9 aux fonctionnaires du minist\u00e8re combien d'articles renferme cet \u00e9norme projet de loi omnibus. Cette question est tr\u00e8s pertinente \u00e9tant donn\u00e9 que les lib\u00e9raux souhaitent faire adopter cette mesure \u00e0 toute vapeur. Bref, s'il y a 5 000 articles, cela signifie que la Chambre n'aura peut-\u00eatre que 9 secondes \u00e0 consacrer \u00e0 chaque paragraphe et qu'il en sera de m\u00eame lors de l'\u00e9tude en comit\u00e9. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5626015\" data-originallang=\"en\">La question que j'ai pos\u00e9e \u00e0 plusieurs reprises est simple. La revoici: combien d'articles renferme cet \u00e9norme projet de loi omnibus?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2018/11/1/peter-julian-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/peter-julian/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4198/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "10347502",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Ordres \u00c9manant Du Gouvernement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Budget Implementation Act, 2018 No. 2",
        "fr": "Loi no 2 d'ex\u00e9cution du budget de 2018"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2018/11/1/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2018%2F11%2F1%2F"
    }
}