Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1996-05-30 14:10:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Paul Mercier (Blainville-Deux-Montagnes, BQ)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Human Resources Development invited my colleague, the member for Bourassa, to go and find himself another country, because he, an immigrant, dared to support the sovereignist option. If we are to believe the minister, and the Prime Minister as well, my colleague had a pressing moral obligation, as a new Canadian, to throw his faithful support behind the federalist cause.</p>\n<p>I imagine that the minister applies this curious notion of parliamentary democracy to me as well, because I, too, am an immigrant and I, too, am a sovereignist.</p>\n<p>However, like my colleague, I realized that the federal yoke was preventing my adopted province from reaching the potential it could as a sovereign nation. Heeding the invitation issued to my colleague, the member for Bourassa, by the Minister of Human Resources Development, I therefore decided to find myself another country. The country I picked was Quebec.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1996/5/30/paul-mercier-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/6481/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3263/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Statements By Members",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Minister Of Human Resources Development",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1996/5/30/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1996%2F5%2F30%2F"
    }
}