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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 15:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Sheila Copps (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Environment, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, I appreciate not only the question of the hon. member but the work he put into the preparation phase for the G-7 environment ministers meeting.</p>\n<p>I want to underscore the consensus at the G-7 environment ministers meeting that in the review of international institutions, in particular the IMF and the World Bank as the ministers of finance are calling for more transparency so we are very specifically calling for more environmental transparency and more recognition of the fact that sustainability and sustainable development must be a very key part of any decision making on lending practices of the IMF and any practices of the World Bank.</p>\n<p>Underlining the need for transparency, an open public process and sustainable development are the keys to any real reform of these international institutions.</p>",
"fr": ""
},
"url": "/debates/1995/5/8/sheila-copps-9/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/4533/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3179/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Question Period",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "World Bank And International Monetary Fund",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/1995/5/8/",
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}
}