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{
"time": "2019-06-18 14:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Jagmeet Singh (Burnaby South, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Jagmeet Singh (Burnaby-Sud, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5999637\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, continuing on the theme of symbolism, the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a> is great at grand symbolic gestures, but always fails when it comes to helping people when it counts.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5999638\" data-originallang=\"en\">Millions of Canadians do not have an affordable place to live and they make difficult choices every day, between buying their groceries or paying their rent. Now the PBO confirms what Canadians have known all along, that instead of increasing the amount of funding for housing, the Liberal government has cut it by one-fifth.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5999639\" data-originallang=\"en\">When will the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a> stop making excuses and actually build, which is our plan, half a million new affordable homes for Canadians?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5999637\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, pour reprendre le th\u00e8me du symbolisme, le <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> est excellent pour les grands gestes symboliques, mais il \u00e9choue immanquablement lorsqu'il s'agit d'aider les gens dans les moments critiques.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5999638\" data-originallang=\"en\">Des millions de Canadiens n'ont pas de logement abordable o\u00f9 vivre. Ils doivent constamment choisir entre payer l'\u00e9picerie ou le loyer, ce qui est difficile. Voil\u00e0 que le directeur parlementaire du budget confirme ce que les Canadiens ont toujours su, c'est-\u00e0-dire que les lib\u00e9raux n'ont pas augment\u00e9 le financement pour le logement, mais l'ont plut\u00f4t r\u00e9duit d'un cinqui\u00e8me.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5999639\" data-originallang=\"en\">Quand le <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> cessera-t-il de trouver des excuses et permettra-t-il la construction d'un demi-million de logements abordables pour les Canadiens, comme le veut notre plan?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2019/6/18/jagmeet-singh-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/jagmeet-singh/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4489/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10717199",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Housing",
"fr": "Le logement"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2019/6/18/",
"related": {
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}
}