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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": "2026-06-11 14:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Jacques Gourde (L\u00e9vis\u2014Lotbini\u00e8re, CPC)",
"fr": "Jacques Gourde (L\u00e9vis\u2014Lotbini\u00e8re, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9400812\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, the Alto train is not a gift. It places a perpetual burden on the backs of future generations. Yesterday, the Minister of Transport opened the door to the possibility of cost overruns, so the minister is prepared for it to cost far more than $90 billion and far exceed its budget.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9400813\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Is the Liberal transport minister prepared to pour money down a bottomless pit?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9400812\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le train Alto, ce n'est pas un cadeau, c'est une hypoth\u00e8que perp\u00e9tuelle sur le dos des g\u00e9n\u00e9rations futures. Hier, le ministre des Transports a ouvert la porte au d\u00e9passement de co\u00fbts. Le ministre est donc pr\u00eat \u00e0 ce que \u00e7a co\u00fbte beaucoup plus que 90 milliards et \u00e0 d\u00e9foncer tous les budgets.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9400813\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Le ministre lib\u00e9ral des Transports est-il pr\u00eat \u00e0 subventionner un gouffre sans fond?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/6/11/jacques-gourde-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/jacques-gourde/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4387/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13574656",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Rail Transportation",
"fr": "Le transport ferroviaire"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2026/6/11/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2026%2F6%2F11%2F"
}
}