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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": "1996-05-16 14:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Preston Manning (Calgary Southwest, Ref.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said there will be negotiations on ground rules for the next referendum but provides no details at all.</p>\n<p>He says 50 per cent plus one is not enough to separate, but he does not know what percentage would be acceptable. He says the federal government would never acknowledge a unilateral declaration of separation but cannot seem to outline the grounds for a democratic and legal secession.</p>\n<p>Either the Prime Minister is making this up as he goes along or the federal government does have ground rules governing the next referendum on secession and is not disclosing them.</p>\n<p>Which is it? Does the government have firm ground rules for governing a future referendum on secession? If it does, will it table them in the House?</p>",
"fr": ""
},
"url": "/debates/1996/5/16/preston-manning-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/preston-manning/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3055/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Question Period",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "National Unity",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/1996/5/16/",
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}
}