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{
"time": "2025-12-11 14:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Wayne Long (Secretary of State (Canada Revenue Agency and Financial Institutions), Lib.)",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Wayne Long (secr\u00e9taire d\u2019\u00c9tat (Agence du revenu du Canada et Institutions financi\u00e8res), Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9058393\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, here we go with imaginary taxes again. If the <a data-HoCid=\"322132\" href=\"/politicians/pierre-poilievre/\" title=\"Pierre Poilievre\">Conservative leader</a> actually cared about the economy, he would not have spent the last 20 years in this House voting against it.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9058394\" data-originallang=\"en\">On this side, we are not playing procedural games. We have been governing. We passed a historic budget to build our economy. The Conservatives hid behind the curtains. The proof is in the pudding. In the face of a trade war, our economy is growing. We have added 180,000 jobs in three months alone.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9058395\" data-originallang=\"en\">I hope his heart grows two sizes bigger and he becomes more focused on affordability for Canadians. Let us get on with building the economy.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9058393\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, on nous sort encore la m\u00eame rengaine sur des taxes imaginaires. Si le <a data-HoCid=\"322132\" href=\"/politicians/pierre-poilievre/\" title=\"Pierre Poilievre\">chef conservateur</a> se souciait vraiment de l'\u00e9conomie, il n'aurait pas pass\u00e9 les 20 derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es \u00e0 la Chambre \u00e0 s'y opposer.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9058394\" data-originallang=\"en\">De ce c\u00f4t\u00e9-ci de la Chambre, nous ne jouons pas \u00e0 des jeux proc\u00e9duraux. Nous gouvernons le Canada. Nous avons adopt\u00e9 un budget historique pour b\u00e2tir l'\u00e9conomie. Les conservateurs, eux, \u00e9taient cach\u00e9s derri\u00e8re les rideaux. Les faits sont \u00e9loquents. Face \u00e0 une guerre commerciale, notre \u00e9conomie est en croissance. Nous avons cr\u00e9\u00e9 180 000 emplois en trois mois seulement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9058395\" data-originallang=\"en\"> J'esp\u00e8re que son c\u0153ur grandira de trois tailles et demie, et que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 se concentrera davantage sur l'abordabilit\u00e9 pour les Canadiens. Attelons-nous \u00e0 la t\u00e2che et b\u00e2tissons l'\u00e9conomie.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/12/11/wayne-long-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/wayne-long/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4685/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13308203",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "The Economy",
"fr": "L'\u00e9conomie"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/12/11/",
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}
}