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{
"time": "2025-11-17 19:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Mike Lake",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Mike Lake"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8993301\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Mr. Speaker, the hon. member led off his comments by quoting a former PBO, somehow in defence of the government, saying, \u201cOur economy is weak\u201d. If the Liberals have a confidence problem, just about the worst advice that I can imagine is to spend their way out of it. They call it investment, but it is really just spending.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8993302\" data-originallang=\"en\">Here is what happened in February 1994 according to a Reuters summary:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"8993303\" data-originallang=\"en\"> The...Liberal government brings down what it considers to be a tough budget.... It nonetheless still has spending rising slightly, and immediate public and market reaction is it did not go nearly far enough.... </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8993304\" data-originallang=\"en\"> January 1995\u2014A biting editorial in the Wall Street Journal headlined \u201cBankrupt Canada\u201d calls Canada \u201can honorary member of the Third World\u201d.... </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"8993305\" data-originallang=\"en\">The next month, the Liberal government was forced to make the most vicious cuts to health care and social programs in Canadian history.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8993306\" data-originallang=\"en\">We are on that same path. What does the hon. member suggest we do about it?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8993301\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a commenc\u00e9 son intervention pour d\u00e9fendre le gouvernement en citant un ancien directeur parlementaire du budget qui a dit que notre \u00e9conomie \u00e9tait faible. Si les lib\u00e9raux ont un probl\u00e8me de confiance, le pire conseil que je puisse imaginer, c'est de faire des d\u00e9penses pour s'en sortir. Ils disent que ce sont des investissements, mais ce ne sont que des d\u00e9penses.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8993302\" data-originallang=\"en\">Voici ce qui s'est produit en f\u00e9vrier 1994, selon un r\u00e9sum\u00e9 de Reuters:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"8993303\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Le [...] gouvernement lib\u00e9ral pr\u00e9sente ce qu'il consid\u00e8re comme un budget rigoureux [...] Il pr\u00e9voit n\u00e9anmoins une l\u00e9g\u00e8re augmentation des d\u00e9penses, et la r\u00e9action imm\u00e9diate du public et des march\u00e9s est qu'il ne va vraiment pas assez loin [...] </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8993304\" data-originallang=\"en\"> En janvier 1995, un \u00e9ditorial cinglant publi\u00e9 dans le <em>Wall Street Journal</em> et intitul\u00e9 \u00ab Bankrupt Canada \u00bb a qualifi\u00e9 le Canada de \u00ab membre honoraire du tiers-monde \u00bb [...] </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"8993305\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le mois suivant, le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral a \u00e9t\u00e9 contraint de proc\u00e9der aux compressions budg\u00e9taires les plus brutales de l'histoire du Canada dans les domaines de la sant\u00e9 et des programmes sociaux.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8993306\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous sommes sur la m\u00eame voie. Qu'est-ce que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 nous propose de faire?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/11/17/mike-lake-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/mike-lake/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4819/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13239725",
"h1": {
"en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
"fr": "Motion d'ajournement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Finance",
"fr": "Les finances"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/11/17/",
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}