Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1994-04-15 14:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Peter Milliken (Parliamentary Secretary to Leader of the Government in the House of Commons)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Madam Speaker, the speech of the opposition House leader was so interesting that I felt I had to add a few words.</p>\n<p>The hon. member forgot something. I remember quite well that during a by election in the Lac-Saint-Jean region a few years ago, the Conservative government spent $143 million to help elect the present opposition leader as member for Lac-Saint-Jean. Why did the hon. member not ask him to be generous with this project, to be its benefactor in return for all the money that was spent?</p>\n<p>Really the money was spent. They should have named this project as one of the things they spent the money on instead of spending it on all of the other projects.</p>\n<p>The hon. member knows his leader got this money to get him elected into this House. They spent $143 million on one byelection in one riding. It is an extraordinary confession when he comes to this House pleading for more money for his riding when all that money was spent in that area just to get his leader elected and he did not get him to do it.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1994/4/15/peter-milliken-13/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/peter-milliken/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3187/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Private Members' Business",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Canadian National Railways",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1994/4/15/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1994%2F4%2F15%2F"
    }
}