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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": "2022-10-04 14:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Pierre Poilievre (chef de l\u2019opposition, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7314900\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the problem is that the government wants to tax it all away. In fact, it wants to triple the carbon tax on gas, heat and groceries at a time when Vancouver's gas prices hit $2.40 a litre, and we learned today that Ontario will soon have a 10\u00a2 a litre sudden spike in gas prices.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7314901\" data-originallang=\"en\">This is exactly the wrong time for a tax hike. Will the government cancel its plan to triple the tax?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7314900\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le probl\u00e8me, c'est que le gouvernement en viendra \u00e0 annuler l'effet de cette mesure en imposant des taxes. En fait, il veut tripler la taxe sur le carbone qui s'applique \u00e0 l'essence, au chauffage et \u00e0 l'\u00e9picerie \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le prix de l'essence \u00e0 Vancouver atteint 2,40 $ le litre. De plus, nous avons appris aujourd'hui qu'il y aura bient\u00f4t une hausse soudaine du prix de l'essence de 10 \u00a2 le litre en Ontario.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7314901\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le moment ne pourrait pas \u00eatre plus mal choisi pour une augmentation de taxe. Le gouvernement annulera-t-il son projet de tripler la taxe?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2022/10/4/pierre-poilievre-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/pierre-poilievre/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4214/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "11836247",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Taxation",
"fr": "La fiscalit\u00e9"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2022/10/4/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2022%2F10%2F4%2F"
}
}