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{
    "time": "2018-03-28 14:50:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. G\u00e9rard Deltell (Louis-Saint-Laurent, CPC)",
        "fr": "M. G\u00e9rard Deltell (Louis-Saint-Laurent, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5325752\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, it is Holy Week, so I am in good spirits today.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5325753\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I would like to congratulate the Prime Minister for his sense of humour. Earlier he said, \u201cwe keep our promises.\u201d That is not really true. The Liberals said that they would run a small deficit, but we now have an $18-billion deficit. They also said that they would balance the budget in 2019, but they have no idea when that will happen.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5325754\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Even worse, the government is keeping secrets. The government does not really know when or how it is going to spend the $7 billion that it has hidden in the $18 billion deficit.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5325755\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Why is the Prime Minister keeping secrets from Canadians?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5325752\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, c'est la Semaine sainte, donc je suis anim\u00e9 d'un bon esprit aujourd'hui. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5325753\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Je tiens \u00e0 saluer le sens de l'humour du premier ministre, qui a dit tout \u00e0 l'heure: nous, nous tenons nos promesses. Ce n'est pas tout \u00e0 fait la r\u00e9alit\u00e9. Les lib\u00e9raux ont dit qu'ils cr\u00e9eraient un petit d\u00e9ficit, alors qu'on a un d\u00e9ficit de 18 milliards de dollars. De plus, ils ont dit que le retour \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre budg\u00e9taire aurait lieu en 2019, alors qu'on n'a aucune id\u00e9e du moment o\u00f9 cela aura lieu.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5325754\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Ce qui est encore pire, c'est que le gouvernement fait des cachotteries. Voil\u00e0 que, dans le trou de 18 milliards de dollars, il cache 7 milliards de dollars \u00e0 d\u00e9penser il ne sait trop quand ni comment. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5325755\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Pourquoi le premier ministre cache-t-il des choses aux Canadiens?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2018/3/28/gerard-deltell-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/gerard-deltell/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4432/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "10040650",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": "Questions Orales"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Finance",
        "fr": "Les finances"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2018/3/28/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2018%2F3%2F28%2F"
    }
}