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{
"time": "2025-10-30 15:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Andrew Lawton (Elgin\u2014St. Thomas\u2014London South, CPC)",
"fr": "Andrew Lawton (Elgin\u2014St. Thomas\u2014London-Sud, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8953290\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, Canadian youth are struggling, but Liberal elites have never had it so good. Youth unemployment is at 15%. Young people are writing off the dream of home ownership as simply a fantasy, but the gravy train is chugging along for the <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">Prime Minister</a>'s friends.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8953291\" data-originallang=\"en\">Seventy-nine per cent of Export Development Canada executives cashed in bonuses averaging $143,000 each. BDC executives got bonuses averaging $216,000 each. The Prime Minister's housing agency paid out over $30 million in bonuses. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8953292\" data-originallang=\"en\">Will the <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">Prime Minister</a> ask his elite Liberal insider friends to make sacrifices instead of young Canadians?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8953290\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, alors que les jeunes Canadiens ont du mal \u00e0 boucler les fins de mois, les \u00e9lites lib\u00e9rales, elles, n'ont jamais eu la vie aussi belle. Le taux de ch\u00f4mage chez les jeunes est de 15 %. Pendant que les jeunes consid\u00e8rent le r\u00eave de devenir propri\u00e9taire comme une chim\u00e8re, la machine \u00e0 favoritisme du <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">premier ministre</a> va bon train.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8953291\" data-originallang=\"en\">Soixante-dix-neuf pour cent des cadres d'Exportation et d\u00e9veloppement Canada ont encaiss\u00e9 des primes de 143 000 $ chacun en moyenne. Les cadres de la Banque de d\u00e9veloppement du Canada, quant \u00e0 eux, ont re\u00e7u des primes moyennes de 216 000 $ chacun, et l'agence du logement du premier ministre a vers\u00e9 plus de 30 millions de dollars en primes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8953292\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">premier ministre</a> demandera-t-il \u00e0 ses amis de l'\u00e9lite lib\u00e9rale de faire des sacrifices \u00e0 la place des jeunes Canadiens?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/10/30/andrew-lawton-7/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/andrew-lawton/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4738/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13212752",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "The Economy",
"fr": "L'\u00e9conomie"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/10/30/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2025%2F10%2F30%2F"
}
}