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{
"time": "2025-05-30 11:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Melissa Lantsman (Thornhill, CPC)",
"fr": "Melissa Lantsman (Thornhill, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8833964\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Mr. Speaker, the <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">Prime Minister</a> spent weeks parading around the country and promising Canadians he would \u201cspend less\u201d. However, the guy who was supposed to give us fiscal restraint dropped an 8% spending hike after promising he would cap government spending at 2%, a big broken promise and a half-a-trillion-dollar spending bill without an actual budget. He called himself an Ottawa outsider, but he is picking up pretty quickly on the ways of old Liberal Ottawa.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8833965\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Businesses and households across the country spend their money and live within their means. Why can the <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">Prime Minister</a> not do the same?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8833964\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">premier ministre</a> a pass\u00e9 des semaines \u00e0 se pavaner partout au pays et \u00e0 promettre aux Canadiens qu'il \u00ab d\u00e9penserait moins \u00bb. Cependant, l'homme qui \u00e9tait cens\u00e9 faire preuve de rigueur budg\u00e9taire nous a frapp\u00e9s d'une hausse des d\u00e9penses de 8 % apr\u00e8s avoir promis de plafonner les d\u00e9penses gouvernementales \u00e0 2 %, une grande promesse qu'il n'a pas su tenir et un projet de loi de d\u00e9penses d'un demi-billion de dollars sans m\u00eame d\u00e9poser un budget concret. Il s'est lui-m\u00eame qualifi\u00e9 de n\u00e9ophyte d'Ottawa, mais il ne perd pas de temps \u00e0 reprendre les habitudes de l'ancien gouvernement lib\u00e9ral.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8833965\" data-originallang=\"en\">Partout au pays, les entreprises et les m\u00e9nages d\u00e9pensent leur argent et vivent selon leurs moyens. Pourquoi le <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">premier ministre</a> ne peut-il pas en faire autant?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/5/30/melissa-lantsman-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/melissa-lantsman/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4604/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13079989",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Finance",
"fr": "Les finances"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/5/30/",
"related": {
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}
}