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This is a single
speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2025-12-05 10:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Steven Bonk",
"fr": "Steven Bonk"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9046822\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I appreciate that excellent question because it gets to the heart of the matter in Canada right now, a lot of which has to do with affordability. Affordability comes down to being able to afford things like groceries and rent. However, what we see in Canada right now are record-high prices for housing and record-high prices for groceries and for supplies that people need. Business owners are struggling under a ridiculous amount of taxes in this country. There are many things the government could do right now, like reducing or scrapping the industrial carbon tax or reining in its ridiculous deficit spending, but the government seems unwilling to do any of it.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9046822\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je suis ravi de cette excellente question, car elle touche au c\u0153ur du probl\u00e8me actuel au Canada, qui est en grande partie li\u00e9 au co\u00fbt de la vie. Quand on parle du co\u00fbt de la vie qui est \u00e9lev\u00e9, on parle notamment de la capacit\u00e9 des Canadiens \u00e0 faire l'\u00e9picerie et \u00e0 payer leur loyer. \u00c0 l'heure actuelle, au Canada, le prix du logement, de l'\u00e9picerie et des produits de premi\u00e8re n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 atteint des sommets sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent. Les propri\u00e9taires d'entreprises doivent composer avec des taxes exorbitantes. Le gouvernement pourrait prendre de nombreuses mesures d\u00e8s maintenant, comme r\u00e9duire ou \u00e9liminer la taxe sur le carbone pour les industries ou limiter ses d\u00e9penses d\u00e9ficitaires excessives, mais il semble peu dispos\u00e9 \u00e0 agir ainsi.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/12/5/steven-bonk-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/steven-bonk/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4803/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13294689",
"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/2025/12/5/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2025%2F12%2F5%2F"
}
}