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{
    "time": "2025-11-20 11:50:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Maxime Blanchette-Joncas",
        "fr": "Maxime Blanchette-Joncas"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9001954\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, can we have an emergency debate on this in 20 seconds?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9001955\" data-originallang=\"fr\">It is so insulting. We get robbed and ripped off, and then we are supposed to say thank you when they give us our own money back. Unbelievable. The Liberals spent $814 million on an election goody, a vote-buying handout, all from a tax that was never collected. To borrow another member's catchphrase, it is scandalous.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9001956\" data-originallang=\"fr\">In my view, building a strong Canada does not mean spitting on Quebec, stealing its money and ripping it off every day.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9001954\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, en 20 secondes, est-ce qu'on peut faire un d\u00e9bat d'urgence l\u00e0-dessus?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9001955\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> On se moque de nous. Nous nous faisons voler et arnaquer, puis il faut dire merci quand on nous redonne notre propre argent. C'est incroyable. C'est 814 millions de dollars pour un bonbon \u00e9lectoral des lib\u00e9raux, pour acheter des votes, tout cela issu d\u2019une taxe qui n'a jamais \u00e9t\u00e9 collect\u00e9e. C'est un scandale. On peut reprendre les slogans des autres.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9001956\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Pour moi, b\u00e2tir un Canada fort, ce n'est pas de cracher sur le Qu\u00e9bec, voler son argent et l'arnaquer au quotidien.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2025/11/20/maxime-blanchette-joncas-5/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/maxime-blanchette-joncas/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4716/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "13249640",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Budget 2025 Implementation Act, No. 1",
        "fr": "Loi no 1 d'ex\u00e9cution du budget de 2025"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2025/11/20/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2025%2F11%2F20%2F"
    }
}