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{
"time": "2026-06-17 14:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Jo\u00ebl Lightbound (Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement and Quebec Lieutenant, Lib.)",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Jo\u00ebl Lightbound (ministre de la Transformation du gouvernement, des Travaux publics et de l\u2019Approvisionnement et lieutenant du Qu\u00e9bec, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9416307\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, speaking of a lack of leadership, Canadians have been looking for the Conservative Party's economic plan for at least two years. No one has found it yet, because it does not exist.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9416308\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I would invite my colleague to look at the superdeduction in budget 2025, for example. Accelerated depreciation will encourage businesses to invest and increase their productivity. That is exactly what our government's strategy is, but that is not all; it also includes diversifying our markets.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9416309\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Today, the numbers speak for themselves, as my colleague said. We have increased our exports to the European Union by 23% and to the United Kingdom by 62%, and we are investing in our infrastructure, at the ports of Quebec and Montreal, for instance, in order to boost productivity across the country.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9416307\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, en ce qui concerne le manque de leadership, \u00e7a fait au moins deux ans que les Canadiens cherchent le plan \u00e9conomique du Parti conservateur. Personne ne l'a encore trouv\u00e9, car il est introuvable.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9416308\" data-originallang=\"fr\">J'invite mon coll\u00e8gue \u00e0 regarder, par exemple, dans le budget de 2025, la super d\u00e9duction. L'amortissement acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9 pourra inviter, encourager les entreprises \u00e0 investir, \u00e0 augmenter la productivit\u00e9. C'est exactement la strat\u00e9gie de notre gouvernement. Ce n'est pas seulement \u00e7a, c'est de diversifier nos march\u00e9s.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9416309\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Aujourd'hui, comme le disait ma coll\u00e8gue, les chiffres parlent d'eux-m\u00eames. Nous avons augment\u00e9 nos exportations vers l'Union europ\u00e9enne de 23 %, vers le Royaume\u2011Uni de 62 %, et nous investissons dans nos infrastructures, que ce soit le port de Qu\u00e9bec et celui de Montr\u00e9al, pour \u00eatre plus productif partout au pays.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/6/17/joel-lightbound-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/joel-lightbound/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4431/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13589348",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Small Business",
"fr": "La petite entreprise"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2026/6/17/",
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}