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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": "2026-05-28 17:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Alex Ruff (Bruce\u2014Grey\u2014Owen Sound, CPC)",
"fr": "Alex Ruff (Bruce\u2014Grey\u2014Owen Sound, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9365035\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Mr. Speaker, I want to build on the two questions my hon. colleague was already asked, because in my opinion, when people are breaking the law or they are avoiding taxes, it is all about transparency and accountability.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9365036\" data-originallang=\"en\">In particular, I want to ask him what he thinks the end result will be. Will this help and potentially enable additional changes to our tax laws and our Criminal Code? As he talked about in his speech, unfortunately, Canada has a bad track record of not collecting any of the money that has not been properly paid to the government coffers.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9365035\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'aimerais revenir sur les deux questions qui ont d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9t\u00e9 pos\u00e9es \u00e0 mon coll\u00e8gue. \u00c0 mon avis, quand on parle des gens qui enfreignent la loi ou qui \u00e9vitent de payer des imp\u00f4ts, on parle avant tout de transparence et de reddition de comptes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9365036\" data-originallang=\"en\">Plus pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment, je veux lui demander quel sera, selon lui, le r\u00e9sultat final. Pourra-t-on am\u00e9liorer la situation, et est-ce que d'autres modifications \u00e0 nos lois fiscales et \u00e0 notre Code criminel pourront \u00eatre envisag\u00e9es? Comme il en a parl\u00e9 dans son discours, malheureusement, le Canada a un pi\u00e8tre bilan en mati\u00e8re de perception des montants qui ne lui ont pas \u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9s comme il se doit.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/5/28/alex-ruff-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/alex-ruff/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4539/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13533554",
"h1": {
"en": "Private Members' Business",
"fr": "Affaires \u00e9manant des d\u00e9put\u00e9s"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Canada Revenue Agency Act",
"fr": "La Loi sur l'Agence du revenu du Canada"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2026/5/28/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2026%2F5%2F28%2F"
}
}