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{
"time": "2025-11-06 15:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. M\u00e9lanie Joly (Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions, Lib.)",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. M\u00e9lanie Joly (ministre de l\u2019Industrie et ministre responsable de D\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique Canada pour les r\u00e9gions du Qu\u00e9bec, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8974433\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Cumberland\u2014Colchester and I, and this government, are laser-focused on making sure that we bring down costs in the telecom sector. We took the right decision this summer to uphold the decision of the CRTC to increase competition in the telecommunications sector. We also said we would be hawkish on competition.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8974434\" data-originallang=\"en\">We will do more in this budget to increase competition and make sure that we reform our telecommunications sector.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8974433\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, ma coll\u00e8gue de Cumberland\u2014Colchester, moi-m\u00eame et le gouvernement sommes d\u00e9termin\u00e9s \u00e0 faire baisser les co\u00fbts dans le secteur des t\u00e9l\u00e9communications. Nous avons pris la bonne d\u00e9cision cet \u00e9t\u00e9 en confirmant la d\u00e9cision du CRTC d'accro\u00eetre la concurrence dans le secteur des t\u00e9l\u00e9communications. Nous avons \u00e9galement d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que nous serions intransigeants en mati\u00e8re de concurrence.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8974434\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans le budget, nous en faisons davantage pour accro\u00eetre la concurrence et r\u00e9former le secteur des t\u00e9l\u00e9communications.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/11/6/melanie-joly-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/melanie-joly/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4365/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13229029",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Telecommunications",
"fr": "Les t\u00e9l\u00e9communications"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/11/6/",
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}
}