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{
    "time": "2016-10-07 15:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Leonid Elbert",
        "fr": "M. Leonid Elbert"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4558104\" data-originallang=\"en\">If you looked at the brief, you would have obviously looked at the would-be result. The Green Party would be under-represented. It would not go anywhere outside of B.C. The reason is that, when you have, let's say, 14 MPs elected in a region, there is not much they can do with 2% or 3%. Unlike other systems\u2014</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4558104\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si vous avez examin\u00e9 le m\u00e9moire, vous avez certainement examin\u00e9 les r\u00e9sultats th\u00e9oriques. Le Parti vert serait sous-repr\u00e9sent\u00e9. Il n'obtiendrait rien \u00e0 l'ext\u00e9rieur de la Colombie-Britannique. Cela vient du fait que, lorsqu'il y a, disons, 14 d\u00e9put\u00e9s \u00e0 \u00e9lire dans une r\u00e9gion, ils ne peuvent pas faire grand-chose lorsqu'ils obtiennent 2 ou 3 % des suffrages. \u00c0 la diff\u00e9rence d'autres syst\u00e8mes...</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/electoral-reform/42-1/39/leonid-elbert-4/",
    "politician_url": null,
    "politician_membership_url": null,
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "9152427",
    "document_url": "/committees/electoral-reform/42-1/39/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fcommittees%2Felectoral-reform%2F42-1%2F39%2F"
    }
}