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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": "2020-11-17 14:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)",
"fr": "Le tr\u00e8s hon. Justin Trudeau (premier ministre, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6350886\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, on the contrary, the very first thing this government did in 2015 when we got elected was to raise taxes on the wealthiest 1%, so that we could lower them for the middle class. What did the NDP do? They voted against it.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6350887\" data-originallang=\"en\">Every step of the way we have been there to support the middle class, to support people working hard to join it and to make sure Canadians got ahead, whether it was with a million jobs created over the past five years or a million people lifted out of poverty at the same time. We will continue to fight for Canadians and for their success.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6350886\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, au contraire, la toute premi\u00e8re mesure que le gouvernement a prise en 2015, lorsque nous avons \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lus, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d'augmenter les imp\u00f4ts pour le 1 % le plus riche afin de pouvoir les baisser pour la classe moyenne. Qu'a fait le NPD? Il a vot\u00e9 contre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6350887\" data-originallang=\"en\">Depuis le d\u00e9but, nous soutenons la classe moyenne et les personnes qui travaillent fort pour en faire partie et nous nous effor\u00e7ons d'am\u00e9liorer la vie des Canadiens, que ce soit en cr\u00e9ant un million d'emplois au cours des cinq derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es ou en sortant un million de personnes de la pauvret\u00e9 pendant la m\u00eame p\u00e9riode. Nous continuerons de nous battre pour les Canadiens et pour leur r\u00e9ussite.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2020/11/17/justin-trudeau-9/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/justin-trudeau/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1211/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "11011026",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Taxation",
"fr": "La fiscalit\u00e9"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2020/11/17/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2020%2F11%2F17%2F"
}
}