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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": "2024-04-17 15:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Pierre Poilievre (chef de l\u2019opposition, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8328317\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, austerity is what people are living every day when they cannot afford to eat, heat or house themselves after nine years of the current <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a>, but when people pay the GST they assume they are getting something in return. It turns out that they pay $54.1 billion in GST and it costs them $54.1 billion in interest on the national debt.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8328318\" data-originallang=\"en\">Does the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a> realize that not one penny from the money Canadians pay in GST goes to valuable services? It all goes to pay wealthy bankers.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8328317\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, l'aust\u00e9rit\u00e9, les gens la vivent au quotidien parce qu'ils n'ont pas les moyens de se nourrir, de chauffer leur maison ou de se loger apr\u00e8s neuf ann\u00e9es sous la gouverne de l'actuel <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a>, mais quand ils paient la TPS, ils s'attendent \u00e0 obtenir quelque chose en retour. Or, la TPS permet d'amasser 54,1 milliards de dollars par ann\u00e9e et les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la dette nationale se chiffrent aussi \u00e0 54,1 milliards de dollars. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8328318\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> r\u00e9alise-t-il que pas un seul sou provenant de la TPS pay\u00e9e par les Canadiens n'est utilis\u00e9 pour offrir des services utiles? Toutes les recettes de cette taxe sont vers\u00e9es aux riches banquiers. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2024/4/17/pierre-poilievre-21/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/pierre-poilievre/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4214/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "12684254",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Taxation",
"fr": "La fiscalit\u00e9"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2024/4/17/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2024%2F4%2F17%2F"
}
}