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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": "1994-10-18 13:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Richard B\u00e9lisle (La Prairie, B.Q.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, year after year, the Auditor General denounces federal mismanagement that costs taxpayers billions of dollars.</p>\n<p>Do you want some examples? What about the $4 billion wasted by inefficient federal management of real property? What about the $3 billion of contracts issued without bids, when the Auditor General himself says that $1 billion could have been saved here? And what about the billions of dollars of military spending that is no longer justified today?</p>\n<p>Instead of slashing only social programs that meet the needs of the poorest people in our society, the government should first clean up its own yard. Examples of wasted public funds are not lacking. The government should start by properly correcting its poor management instead of blaming the unemployed for all the fiscal problems in this country.</p>",
"fr": ""
},
"url": "/debates/1994/10/18/richard-belisle-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/3715/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3282/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Management Of Government Finances",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/1994/10/18/",
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}
}