{"time": "1995-10-30 14:45:00", "attribution": {"en": "Hon. Diane Marleau (Minister of Health, Lib.)", "fr": ""}, "content": {"en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, medicare in this country is about more than money. It is about more than cheap politics. It is even about more than health care.</p>\n<p>Medicare concerns our self-understanding as a people and as a country. It concerns our identity as a fair, just, compassionate, and pragmatic people. It is an identity that was fashioned by our commitment to shared fundamental values. It is an identity that is cherished by every Canadian.</p>\n<p>Medicare recognizes the very best of what we are as Canadians. Without the medicare system we have now, Canadians would lose a very important mirror on themselves. We will not allow that.</p>", "fr": ""}, "url": "/debates/1995/10/30/diane-marleau-2/", "politician_url": "/politicians/184/", "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3232/", "procedural": false, "source_id": "", "h1": {"en": "Oral Question Period", "fr": ""}, "h2": {"en": "Social Programs", "fr": ""}, "document_url": "/debates/1995/10/30/", "related": {"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1995%2F10%2F30%2F"}}