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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": "1996-10-03 14:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mrs. Pauline Picard (Drummond, BQ)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, lately the Liberal members, especially those from Quebec, have accused the sovereignists of all the evils in the world. We are even being accused of violating human rights. Yet, I have been unable to find any mention of Quebec in Amnesty International's latest report.</p>\n<p>However, I noticed that some of the countries mentioned in this report-two of which are England and Greece-have always been considered beyond reproach. The report points out that, in Greece, some 350 prisoners of conscience are in jail, eight people are being sued simply for exercising their freedom of expression in a non-violent way, and there are still cases of abuse and torture.</p>\n<p>Some members of this House find it easier to see the mote in their neighbour's eye than the beam in their own.</p>",
"fr": ""
},
"url": "/debates/1996/10/3/pauline-picard-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/230/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3273/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Human Rights",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/1996/10/3/",
"related": {
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}
}