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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2025-10-31 11:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Steven MacKinnon (Minister of Transport and Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.)",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Steven MacKinnon (ministre des Transports et leader du gouvernement \u00e0 la Chambre des communes, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8956215\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Madam Speaker, first of all, I want to wish everyone here in the House a happy Halloween. Another holiday that is coming up is Christmas.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8956216\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Canadians are looking forward to Christmas. This has been a big year for Canada. This year, people want to celebrate Christmas, but they do not want to go to the polls. We are going to table a budget. Canadians hope that the House will pass the Liberal plan, our <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">Prime Minister</a>'s plan, to build Canada strong.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8956217\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Will my colleague commit today to not be a grinch and vote in favour of the budget next week?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8956215\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, d'abord et avant tout, je souhaite une joyeuse Halloween \u00e0 l'ensemble de la Chambre. L'autre f\u00eate qui s'en vient, c'est No\u00ebl.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8956216\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Les gens au Canada ont h\u00e2te \u00e0 No\u00ebl. Cela a \u00e9t\u00e9 une grosse ann\u00e9e pour le Canada. Cette ann\u00e9e, les gens veulent f\u00eater No\u00ebl, mais ils ne veulent pas aller aux urnes. Nous allons d\u00e9poser un budget. Les Canadiens souhaitent que le plan lib\u00e9ral, celui de notre <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">premier ministre</a> pour b\u00e2tir un Canada tr\u00e8s fort, passe.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8956217\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mon honorable coll\u00e8gue peut-il s'engager aujourd'hui \u00e0 ne pas \u00eatre grincheux et \u00e0 voter en faveur du budget la semaine prochaine?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/10/31/steven-mackinnon-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/steven-mackinnon/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4422/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13215150",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "The Economy",
"fr": "L'\u00e9conomie"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/10/31/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2025%2F10%2F31%2F"
}
}