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{
    "time": "2024-01-31 14:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Bob Zimmer (Prince George\u2014Peace River\u2014Northern Rockies, CPC)",
        "fr": "M. Bob Zimmer (Prince George\u2014Peace River\u2014Northern Rockies, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8169920\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, after eight years, northern Canadians have learned the hard way that the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a> is not worth the cost.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8169921\" data-originallang=\"en\">Northwest Territories Premier R. J. Simpson recently said, \u201cThe costs are already high\u2014higher costs are not the solution up here.\u201d Adam and Chris from Yellowknife handed me their monthly heating bills that were $1,400, $1,700 and $2,100 because of the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a>'s carbon tax.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8169922\" data-originallang=\"en\">Northerners have a choice next election. On one side, they have a costly coalition NDP-Liberal government that has driven up heating costs in the north because of its carbon tax, broken housing promises because there were zero homes built in Nunavut last year, doubled the national debt with little northern infrastructure to show for it and doubled the violent crimes across Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8169923\" data-originallang=\"en\">On our side, we have a common-sense plan that we, along with our <a data-HoCid=\"291215\" href=\"/politicians/pierre-poilievre/\" title=\"Pierre Poilievre\">leader</a>, will axe the tax, build better homes, fix the budget and stop the crime. We will bring it home.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8169920\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, pendant huit ann\u00e9es, les Canadiens du Nord ont appris \u00e0 leurs d\u00e9pens que le <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> n\u2019en vaut pas le co\u00fbt.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8169921\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Le premier ministre des Territoires du Nord\u2011Ouest, R. J. Simpson, a r\u00e9cemment d\u00e9clar\u00e9: \u00ab Le co\u00fbt de la vie est d\u00e9j\u00e0 tr\u00e8s \u00e9lev\u00e9 chez nous \u2014 augmenter encore plus les prix n\u2019est pas la solution. \u00bb Adam et Chris, qui habitent \u00e0 Yellowknife, m'ont montr\u00e9 leurs factures mensuelles de chauffage domestique, qui affichent des montants de 1 400 $, 1 700 $ et 2 100 $ \u00e0 cause de la taxe sur le carbone du <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8169922\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les populations du Nord auront un choix \u00e0 faire \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9lection g\u00e9n\u00e9rale. Dans un camp se trouve la co\u00fbteuse coalition n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrate\u2014lib\u00e9rale qui a fait grimper en fl\u00e8che la facture du chauffage domestique dans le Nord \u00e0 cause de sa taxe sur le carbone, qui n'a pas tenu ses promesses au sujet du logement \u2014 aucune habitation n'a \u00e9t\u00e9 construire au Nunavut au cours de la derni\u00e8re ann\u00e9e \u2014, et qui a pris des d\u00e9cisions ayant non seulement fait doubler la dette nationale \u2014 sans que cela ne se traduise par des am\u00e9liorations des infrastructures dans le Nord \u2014, mais ayant aussi multipli\u00e9 par deux les taux de crimes violents d\u2019un bout \u00e0 l\u2019autre du Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8169923\" data-originallang=\"en\">De ce c\u00f4t\u00e9\u2011ci de la Chambre, notre <a data-HoCid=\"291215\" href=\"/politicians/pierre-poilievre/\" title=\"Pierre Poilievre\">chef</a> et nous avons un plan fond\u00e9 sur le gros bon sens qui vise \u00e0 abolir la taxe, \u00e0 construire de meilleurs logements, \u00e0 redresser le budget et \u00e0 faire \u00e9chec au crime. Nous ram\u00e8nerons le gros bon sens chez nous.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2024/1/31/bob-zimmer-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/bob-zimmer/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4276/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "12541521",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Statements by Members",
        "fr": "D\u00e9clarations de d\u00e9put\u00e9s"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada",
        "fr": "Le chef du Parti lib\u00e9ral du Canada"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2024/1/31/",
    "related": {
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    }
}