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{
"time": "2023-05-17 14:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Adam Chambers (Simcoe North, CPC)",
"fr": "M. Adam Chambers (Simcoe-Nord, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7786293\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, it takes a hack to know a hack. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7786294\" data-originallang=\"en\">Last fall, the <a data-HoCid=\"263831\" href=\"/politicians/chrystia-freeland/\" title=\"Chrystia Freeland\">finance minister</a> said that new spending needed to be matched with government savings. She said that the government needed to exercise restraint to not pour fuel on the fire. She also said that the debt-to-GDP ratio was the red line. That seems all pretty clear to me, except the government did not take the finance minister's advice.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7786295\" data-originallang=\"en\">Only one thing can be true. Either the <a data-HoCid=\"263831\" href=\"/politicians/chrystia-freeland/\" title=\"Chrystia Freeland\">finance minister</a> is being overruled by the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a> or another leadership contestant, or Canadians cannot take the promises she makes seriously. Which one is it?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7786293\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, il faut un valet pour en reconna\u00eetre un autre. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7786294\" data-originallang=\"en\">L\u2019automne dernier, la <a data-HoCid=\"263831\" href=\"/politicians/chrystia-freeland/\" title=\"Chrystia Freeland\">ministre des Finances</a> a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que les nouvelles d\u00e9penses devaient \u00eatre compens\u00e9es par des \u00e9conomies du gouvernement. Elle a ajout\u00e9 que le gouvernement devait faire preuve de retenue pour ne pas jeter de l\u2019huile sur le feu. Elle a \u00e9galement dit que le ratio dette-PIB constituait la ligne rouge. Tout cela m\u2019appara\u00eet tr\u00e8s limpide; toutefois, le gouvernement n\u2019a pas suivi le conseil de la ministre des Finances.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7786295\" data-originallang=\"en\">Seule une de ces possibilit\u00e9s peut \u00eatre vraie: soit l\u2019avis du <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> ou d\u2019un autre candidat \u00e0 la direction a pr\u00e9s\u00e9ance sur celui de la <a data-HoCid=\"263831\" href=\"/politicians/chrystia-freeland/\" title=\"Chrystia Freeland\">ministre des Finances</a>, soit les Canadiens ne peuvent pas prendre au s\u00e9rieux les promesses qu\u2019elle fait. Laquelle est vraie?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2023/5/17/adam-chambers-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/adam-chambers/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4635/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "12224157",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "The Economy",
"fr": "L'\u00e9conomie"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2023/5/17/",
"related": {
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}
}