Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1995-12-12 15:00:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Svend J. Robinson (Burnaby-Kingsway, NDP)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Foreign Affairs.</p>\n<p>Tomorrow the Chinese government will be trying leading dissident Wei Jingsheng, the winner of the 1995 Olaf Palme Award, on charges that could lead to the death penalty.</p>\n<p>I ask the minister to tell the House what steps the Liberal government has taken to protest this rushed show trial? He was given five days notice of this trial. Will the minister assure the House that the Canadian embassy in Beijing will send a senior representative to monitor this trial tomorrow?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1995/12/12/svend-robinson-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/2111/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3075/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Wei Jingsheng",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1995/12/12/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1995%2F12%2F12%2F"
    }
}