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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": "1994-11-14 17:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Leon E. Benoit (Vegreville, Ref.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, the member in answering a question by my colleague commented that what he is suggesting, that government not subsidize business, is simplistic. If indeed government or civil servants are trying to pick winners, trying to determine how they are going to direct subsidies when there are many people competing in the same business, how are they going to wisely choose the businesses to give money to, if that is not being simplistic?</p>",
"fr": ""
},
"url": "/debates/1994/11/14/leon-benoit-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/leon-benoit/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3071/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Standing Committee On Industry",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/1994/11/14/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1994%2F11%2F14%2F"
}
}