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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2022-10-25 15:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Rachel Bendayan (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance, Lib.)",
"fr": "Mme Rachel Bendayan (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire du ministre du Tourisme et ministre associ\u00e9 des Finances, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7359973\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, let me simply correct the record by saying, as I have said before, that we actually have the lowest deficit among G7 countries. It is hovering around 1%. That is almost zero deficit.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7359974\" data-originallang=\"en\">Let me also come back to the importance of the measures we put in place and the importance of supporting Canadians when they needed it most. It ensured not only that Canadians continued to take home a paycheque and continued to be able to pay their rent and their mortgages, but that our economy came roaring back even stronger than it was prior to the pandemic thanks to the smart investments we made and the fiscal responsibility we still maintain today.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7359973\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je vais simplement rectifier les faits en r\u00e9p\u00e9tant qu'en r\u00e9alit\u00e9, notre d\u00e9ficit est l'un des plus faibles des pays du G7. Il est autour de 1 %. C'est presque un d\u00e9ficit nul. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7359974\" data-originallang=\"en\">Revenons \u00e0 l'importance des mesures que nous avons mises en place et \u00e0 la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de soutenir les Canadiens quand ils en ont le plus besoin. Non seulement ces mesures ont permis aux Canadiens de continuer \u00e0 toucher un ch\u00e8que de paie et de continuer d'arriver \u00e0 payer leur loyer ou \u00e0 rembourser leur pr\u00eat hypoth\u00e9caire, mais elles ont aussi permis \u00e0 l'\u00e9conomie de revenir en force \u2014 elle est encore plus dynamique qu'avant la pand\u00e9mie \u2014, gr\u00e2ce aux investissements judicieux que nous avons faits et \u00e0 la responsabilit\u00e9 financi\u00e8re dont nous continuons de faire montre aujourd'hui.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2022/10/25/rachel-bendayan-5/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/rachel-bendayan/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4488/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "11879644",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "The Economy",
"fr": "L\u2019\u00e9conomie"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2022/10/25/",
"related": {
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}
}