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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": "1995-11-01 14:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Laurent Lavigne (Beauharnois-Salaberry, BQ)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, on November 1, 1987 we lost the founding father of the Parti Quebecois and of the sovereignist movement, Ren\u00e9 L\u00e9vesque.</p>\n<p>More than anyone else, Mr. L\u00e9vesque incarnated Quebecers' confidence in themselves. He was one of the key figures who shaped the quiet revolution through his lead role in the Lesage government and he contributed to the creation of modern day Quebec, particularly by nationalizing our electrical power.</p>\n<p>As the Premier of Quebec, he has left a lasting heritage. We need only think, for instance, of the charter of the French language and the recognition of aboriginal right to self-government.</p>\n<p>His legacy to us was a faultless sense of democracy and healthier politics; his proudest accomplishment in this area was enactment of the legislation on political funding.</p>\n<p>I am sure that Ren\u00e9 L\u00e9vesque, great democrat that he was, would have been proud of the 94 per cent turnout, as Quebecers exercised their right to vote this past Monday.</p>",
"fr": ""
},
"url": "/debates/1995/11/1/laurent-lavigne-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/7780/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3259/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Ren\u00e9 L\u00e9vesque",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/1995/11/1/",
"related": {
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}
}