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This is a single
speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2018-09-21 11:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Richard H\u00e9bert (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Small Business and Export Promotion, Lib.)",
"fr": "M. Richard H\u00e9bert (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire de la ministre de la Petite Entreprise et de la Promotion des exportations, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5527437\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, that is why we lowered the small business tax rate to 9% to help business owners save up to $7,500 a year, reinvest in their businesses, and create more good jobs for the middle class.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5527438\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Small and medium-sized enterprises account for 98% of all businesses, and 90% of jobs are created in the private sector. They are the backbone of our economy. We promised SMEs that we would help them, and that is what we are doing. We will never stop working for them.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5527437\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, c'est pourquoi nous avons baiss\u00e9 le taux d'imposition des petites entreprises \u00e0 9 % pour permettre aux propri\u00e9taires d'\u00e9pargner jusqu'\u00e0 7 500 $ par ann\u00e9e, de r\u00e9investir dans leur entreprise et de cr\u00e9er davantage d'emplois de qualit\u00e9 pour la classe moyenne.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5527438\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Les petites et moyennes entreprises repr\u00e9sentent 98 % de l'ensemble des entreprises, et 90 % des emplois sont cr\u00e9\u00e9s dans le secteur priv\u00e9. Elles sont le moteur de notre \u00e9conomie. Nous avions promis aux PME de les accompagner et c'est ce que nous faisons. Nous n'arr\u00eaterons jamais de travailler pour elles.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2018/9/21/richard-hebert-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/richard-hebert/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4460/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10253305",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Small Business",
"fr": "La petite entreprise"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2018/9/21/",
"related": {
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}
}