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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": "1996-10-09 16:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Godfrey",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, the hon. member is not only praising me but he is also a mind reader. I had no idea I was saying so much. Sometimes the subconscious speaks more powerfully than one knows. It is nice to know that what one says has such resonance as to afford this kind of interpretation.</p>\n<p>I would simply add this final thought. If we are to break the logjam with Cuba, and let us face it, it is not a regime that anyone here particularly approves of, but it is precisely the spirit of confrontation which is being perpetuated by the Helms-Burton bill which perpetuates the Cuban regime. It is a symbiotic relationship between the president of Cuba, Mr. Castro, and Senator Helms. They each need each other to perpetuate their own bogey people.</p>\n<p>If we can intervene and bring Cuba back under the rule of law, as my colleague has pointed out has already occurred so effectively in the fisheries, then we will have done a great service for ourselves,</p>\n<p>for Cuba, for the western hemisphere and particularly for the United States.</p>",
"fr": ""
},
"url": "/debates/1996/10/9/john-godfrey-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/118/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3165/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "The Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/1996/10/9/",
"related": {
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}
}