Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1994-12-07 14:45:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Allan Rock (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, consultation was engaged in continuously with officials in the offices of every provincial and territorial attorneys general, every one of them.</p>\n<p>Let me add in response to the hon. member's question that consideration of invoking the notwithstanding clause in relation to the legislation reveals nothing more than a profound misunderstanding of the nature of the clause and the Constitution.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1994/12/7/allan-rock-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/4501/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3172/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Gun Control",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1994/12/7/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1994%2F12%2F7%2F"
    }
}