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{
"time": "2023-12-05 15:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Gord Johns (Courtenay\u2014Alberni, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Gord Johns (Courtenay\u2014Alberni, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8086682\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, this summer, Canada relied on volunteer firefighters and search and rescue to risk their lives to keep us safe, but the Liberals have been letting them down.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8086683\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Ninety-five hundred volunteer firefighters quit in 2023. The Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs, which is here today, says that doing the work and paying for the equipment is unaffordable. The Liberals are in luck. The NDP has a bill that would up the volunteer firefighter tax credit to $10,000.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8086684\" data-originallang=\"en\">Will the government support our volunteer firefighters by voting yes on the NDP's plan to increase the volunteer firefighter tax credit?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8086682\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, cet \u00e9t\u00e9, le Canada a compt\u00e9 sur les pompiers volontaires et les \u00e9quipes de recherche et de sauvetage pour qu'ils assurent notre s\u00e9curit\u00e9 au p\u00e9ril de leur vie, mais les lib\u00e9raux les ont laiss\u00e9s tomber.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8086683\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Quelque 9 500 pompiers volontaires ont d\u00e9missionn\u00e9 en 2023. Selon l'Association canadienne des chefs de pompiers, dont les repr\u00e9sentants sont ici aujourd'hui, faire le travail en plus de payer l'\u00e9quipement est ruineux. Les lib\u00e9raux ont de la chance: le NPD a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 un projet de loi qui porterait \u00e0 10 000 $ le cr\u00e9dit d'imp\u00f4t pour les pompiers volontaires.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8086684\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le gouvernement appuiera-t-il les pompiers volontaires en votant en faveur du plan du NPD pour augmenter leur cr\u00e9dit d'imp\u00f4t?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2023/12/5/gord-johns-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/gord-johns/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4237/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "12488640",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Taxation",
"fr": "La fiscalit\u00e9"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2023/12/5/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2023%2F12%2F5%2F"
}
}