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{
"time": "2024-12-10 15:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Michael Chong (Wellington\u2014Halton Hills, CPC)",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Michael Chong (Wellington\u2014Halton Hills, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8779167\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the <a data-HoCid=\"263831\" href=\"/politicians/chrystia-freeland/\" title=\"Chrystia Freeland\">Finance Minister</a> said that the government would not crash through the deficit guardrail. The Globe and Mail reports today that all the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister's</a> new spending is upending the deficit target and that finance officials view it as \u201cunwise\u201d and \u201cmaking little sense.\u201d</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8779168\" data-originallang=\"en\">Tonight, we vote on $24.8 billion in new spending. Will the Finance Minister tell us why we should vote for something that upends the deficit target, that is unwise and that makes little sense?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8779167\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, la <a data-HoCid=\"263831\" href=\"/politicians/chrystia-freeland/\" title=\"Chrystia Freeland\">ministre des Finances</a> a promis que le gouvernement ne fracasserait pas le garde-fou relatif au d\u00e9ficit. Or, le <em>Globe and Mail</em> nous apprend aujourd'hui que toutes les nouvelles d\u00e9penses du <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> ont pulv\u00e9ris\u00e9 la limite \u00e9tablie pour le d\u00e9ficit et que les fonctionnaires du minist\u00e8re des Finances estiment que c'est \u00ab imprudent \u00bb et que cela \u00ab n'a pas vraiment de sens \u00bb.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8779168\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce soir, nous allons voter \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard de 24,8 milliards de dollars de nouvelles d\u00e9penses. La ministre des Finances peut-elle nous dire pourquoi nous devrions approuver des d\u00e9penses qui pulv\u00e9risent la limite \u00e9tablie pour le d\u00e9ficit, qui sont imprudentes et qui n'ont pas vraiment de sens?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2024/12/10/michael-chong-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/michael-chong/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1440/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13059100",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Finance",
"fr": "Les finances"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2024/12/10/",
"related": {
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}
}