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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": "2019-05-15 17:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Ed Fast",
"fr": "L'hon. Ed Fast"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5917229\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I made it pretty clear that we are going to eliminate the carbon tax. We are never going to take the money out of the pockets of taxpayers in the first place. That is what Conservatives do. We believe that the tax system should be managed in such a way that Canadians can continue to have affordability in their lives, and that the tax burden should not be one that makes it more and more difficult for Canadian families to survive. We know that about half of Canadians today are about $200 away from insolvency. The current Liberal government, and of course the NDP, want to keep taxing them to death. That is their solution for climate change.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5917230\" data-originallang=\"en\">Our plan is going to be a responsible plan that does not undermine affordability for Canadians and at the same time makes measurable reductions in our greenhouse gas emissions. By the way, our environment plan, more broadly, will be a comprehensive plan that is much better than what the Liberals across the way have delivered for Canadians.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5917229\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'ai dit tr\u00e8s clairement que nous allons \u00e9liminer la taxe sur le carbone. Nous n'allons jamais piger dans les poches des contribuables. C'est un principe des conservateurs. Nous croyons que le r\u00e9gime fiscal devrait \u00eatre g\u00e9r\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re \u00e0 ce que les Canadiens puissent jouir d'un mode de vie abordable, et que le fardeau fiscal ne devrait pas rendre la vie des familles canadiennes de plus en plus difficile. Nous savons qu'environ la moiti\u00e9 des Canadiens aujourd'hui sont \u00e0 environ 200 $ de l'insolvabilit\u00e9. Le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral actuel et, bien s\u00fbr, le NPD, veulent continuer \u00e0 les \u00e9craser sous les imp\u00f4ts. C'est la solution qu'ils proposent pour lutter contre les changements climatiques.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5917230\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le plan du Parti conservateur sera un plan responsable. Il ne minera pas l'abordabilit\u00e9 pour les Canadiens et permettra de r\u00e9duire de fa\u00e7on mesurable les \u00e9missions de gaz \u00e0 effet de serre. D'ailleurs, de fa\u00e7on plus g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, notre plan environnemental sera un plan complet qui sera bien meilleur que celui que les lib\u00e9raux d'en face ont offert aux Canadiens.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2019/5/15/ed-fast-5/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/ed-fast/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/410/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10635157",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00c9manant Du Gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014The Environment",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 L'environnement"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2019/5/15/",
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}
}