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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": "1996-10-22 14:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Nick Discepola (Parliamentary Secretary to Solicitor General of Canada, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, in <em>La Presse</em> this morning, Mario Fontaine wrote that 23 filmmakers were involved in the making of the movie ``R\u00e9f\u00e9rendum Prise deux/Take 2''.</p>\n<p>The text contains a major inaccuracy, which we feel the need to correct. Referring to the non-partisan nature of the movie, the journalist made the following comment:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Everyone is given equal speaking time, except perhaps for francophones favouring a no vote, a choice advocated almost exclusively by anglophones and new Canadians.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>This interpretation is mistaken and gives the impression, wrongly, that all francophones in Quebec were on the yes side. To represent the referendum in such a way is to distort reality, given that the no vote of 50.6 per cent largely exceeds the proportion of anglophones and new Canadians living in Quebec.</p>",
"fr": ""
},
"url": "/debates/1996/10/22/nick-discepola-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/3845/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3326/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Referendum Prise Deux/Take 2",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/1996/10/22/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1996%2F10%2F22%2F"
}
}