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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": "1995-05-08 14:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Sheila Copps (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Environment, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, I want to repeat the answer to the hon. member so there is no misunderstanding.</p>\n<p>Until the last budget, 60 per cent of the funding of Environment Canada was sunset funding. It meant that at any time, if one wanted to pursue the Great Lakes action plan, if one wanted to pursue the St. Lawrence action plan, if one wanted to pursue the North American waterfowl management plan, one had to continually go back to cabinet. Only 40 per cent of funding was long term and secured.</p>\n<p>As a result of the work of the Minister of Finance, we now have 100 per cent long term funding. The green plan money that was scheduled by the previous government to run out after the election will be rolled into the permanent budget of the Department of the Environment so that we may have long term, 100 per cent funding which is not be subject to cuts by individual ministers for photo ops.</p>",
"fr": ""
},
"url": "/debates/1995/5/8/sheila-copps-8/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/4533/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3179/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Question Period",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Green Plan",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/1995/5/8/",
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}
}