Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1996-11-05 14:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Michel Gauthier (Leader of the Opposition, BQ)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's comments are rather ambiguous.</p>\n<p>On the one hand, he tries to justify the former lieutenant- governor's actions. He admires his great career and is sorry he resigned. On the other hand, the Prime Minister tells us: \"I did not know. It was not in the security report. I was not aware of these facts\". He then tells us: \"The lieutenant-governor was courageous enough to decide to resign on his own shedding a tear of regret\".</p>\n<p>What we want to know is this: If the Prime Minister had known the facts, would he still have appointed him? That is what the people want to know.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1996/11/5/michel-gauthier-4/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/116/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3311/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Mr. Jean-Louis Roux",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1996/11/5/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1996%2F11%2F5%2F"
    }
}