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{
    "time": "2023-12-11 19:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Gary Vidal",
        "fr": "M. Gary Vidal"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8109299\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Chair, in response to my colleague's question, the Parliamentary Budget Officer disagrees vehemently with his conclusions. After the study he did, he said that the department was failing miserably in the context of the targets it set for itself. In fact, he said that the results are actually declining in spite of the increase in spending.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8109300\" data-originallang=\"en\"> It is government's Parliamentary Budget Officer that is disputing the government's claim that its investments are working. He is the one who is saying that the results are not getting better and, as I said in my speech, that the conditions measured are declining. That is the sad part.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8109299\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la pr\u00e9sidente, pour r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 la question de mon coll\u00e8gue, je dirai que le directeur parlementaire du budget n'est pas du tout d'accord avec ses conclusions. Apr\u00e8s l'\u00e9tude qu'il a r\u00e9alis\u00e9e, il a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que le minist\u00e8re \u00e9chouait lamentablement par rapport aux objectifs qu'il s'\u00e9tait fix\u00e9s. En fait, il a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9 que les r\u00e9sultats \u00e9taient en baisse malgr\u00e9 l'augmentation des d\u00e9penses.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8109300\" data-originallang=\"en\"> C'est le directeur parlementaire du budget du gouvernement qui conteste l'affirmation du gouvernement selon laquelle ses investissements produisent des r\u00e9sultats. C'est lui qui affirme que les r\u00e9sultats ne vont pas en s'am\u00e9liorant et, comme je l'ai dit dans mon discours, que les conditions mesur\u00e9es sont en train de se d\u00e9grader. C'est ce qui est triste.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2023/12/11/gary-vidal-5/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/gary-vidal/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4573/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "12510573",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Indigenous Services",
        "fr": "Les services aux Autochtones"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2023/12/11/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2023%2F12%2F11%2F"
    }
}