Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1994-02-01 13:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. McClelland",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Yes, Mr. Speaker, I definitely would. As a matter of fact the faster we can get to a flat tax system the happier I will be. This whole notion of write offs for this, write offs for that, you have to be a Philadelphia lawyer, you have to have 14 tax accountants to figure out where Tuesday was, is absolutely insane.</p>\n<p>We will have a revolt but the revolt will be all the tax lawyers and tax accountants who will be looking for work if we only simplified it and made it fair.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1994/2/1/ian-mcclelland-5/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/5412/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3062/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Pre-Budget Consultations",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1994/2/1/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1994%2F2%2F1%2F"
    }
}