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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": "2024-10-08 17:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Jacques Gourde",
"fr": "M. Jacques Gourde"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8598430\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Madam Speaker, with all due respect, I think my colleague is starting to have cognitive problems.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8598431\" data-originallang=\"fr\">The Harper government is the best government Canada has ever had. That government managed to balance the budget, despite the global economic crisis of 2008. The country emerged stronger because we made better investments to get Canadians back to work. Those investments did not create inflation. Let us not forget that, under the Harper regime, interest rates gradually went down. Canadians could afford to buy a house, to pay rent, to live, to purchase inexpensive food and to buy a car at a reasonable price. There was hope in Canada. We set a benchmark for the rest of the world.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8598432\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Right now, Canada is a negative example because people can no longer afford to live here. The Harper years were the good years. I call them the years of living high on the hog, because I am a farmer.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8598430\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, en tout respect, je pense que mon coll\u00e8gue commence \u00e0 avoir des probl\u00e8mes sur le plan cognitif.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8598431\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Le gouvernement Harper est le meilleur gouvernement que nous avons eu au Canada. Ce gouvernement a r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 r\u00e9tablir l'\u00e9quilibre budg\u00e9taire, malgr\u00e9 la crise \u00e9conomique mondiale de 2008. Le pays en est sorti plus fort parce que nous avons fait des meilleurs investissements pour redonner du travail aux Canadiens. Ces investissements-l\u00e0 n'ont pas cr\u00e9\u00e9 d'inflation. Il ne faut pas oublier que, sous le r\u00e9gime Harper, les taux d'int\u00e9r\u00eat ont baiss\u00e9 graduellement. Les Canadiens avaient les moyens de s'acheter une maison, de payer leur logement, de vivre, d'avoir de la nourriture bon march\u00e9, de s'acheter une voiture \u00e0 un prix raisonnable. On avait de l'espoir au Canada. Par rapport au monde entier, le pays \u00e9tait une r\u00e9f\u00e9rence.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8598432\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Pr\u00e9sentement, le Canada est une r\u00e9f\u00e9rence de fa\u00e7on n\u00e9gative parce que les gens n'ont plus les moyens de vivre ici. Les ann\u00e9es Harper, c'\u00e9taient les bonnes ann\u00e9es. J'appelle cela les ann\u00e9es de vache grasse, car je suis un agriculteur.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2024/10/8/jacques-gourde-8/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/jacques-gourde/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4387/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "12916334",
"h1": {
"en": "Orders Of The Day",
"fr": "Ordre Du Jour"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Privilege",
"fr": "Privil\u00e8ge"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs",
"fr": "Le renvoi au Comit\u00e9 permanent de la proc\u00e9dure et des affaires de la Chambre"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2024/10/8/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2024%2F10%2F8%2F"
}
}