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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2026-02-26 14:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Leslie Church (Parliamentary Secretary to the Secretaries of State for Labour, for Seniors, and for Children and Youth, and to the Minister of Jobs and Families (Persons with Disabilities), Lib.)",
"fr": "Leslie Church (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire des secr\u00e9taires d'\u00c9tat pour le Travail, pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse, et pour les A\u00een\u00e9s, et de la ministre de l'Emploi et des Familles (Personnes en situation de handicap), Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9188465\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, what Canadians are tired of is rhetoric that says that Canada is broken and that we are not getting ahead.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9188466\" data-originallang=\"en\">Canadians elected a government with a plan that is cutting taxes for 22 million Canadians, delivering a groceries and essentials benefit to put much-needed money back in the pockets of many Canadian families, and is committed to affordable child care, saving families upwards of $10,000 a year. Those are measurable plans to make life better and more affordable for Canadians.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9188467\" data-originallang=\"en\">We are proud of that. I wish the Conservatives would stand with us.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9188465\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, les Canadiens en ont assez des discours qui disent que rien ne va plus au Canada et que nous n'arrivons pas \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer notre sort.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9188466\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les Canadiens ont \u00e9lu un gouvernement qui a un plan, qui r\u00e9duit les imp\u00f4ts de 22 millions de Canadiens, qui pr\u00e9voit une allocation pour l'\u00e9picerie et les produits essentiels afin de redonner \u00e0 de nombreuses familles canadiennes de l'argent dont elles ont bien besoin, et qui est d\u00e9termin\u00e9 \u00e0 offrir des services de garde abordables, ce qui permettra aux familles d'\u00e9conomiser jusqu'\u00e0 10 000 $ par ann\u00e9e. Ce sont des mesures concr\u00e8tes qui contribueront \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer la vie des Canadiens et \u00e0 la rendre plus abordable.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9188467\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous en sommes fiers. Ce serait fantastique si les conservateurs se ralliaient \u00e0 nous.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/2/26/leslie-church-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/leslie-church/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4786/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13381390",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "The Economy",
"fr": "L'\u00e9conomie"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2026/2/26/",
"related": {
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}
}