Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1996-05-07 14:55:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Jim Hart (Okanagan-Similkameen-Merritt, Ref.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, the government says that it believes in integrity and accountability to Canadians.</p>\n<p>At the same time it allowed a senior military official to spend an outrageous $250,000 on a change of command party. That is a quarter of a million taxpayer dollars spent by Major General McInnis on a party for himself.</p>\n<p>Obviously the chain of command at the defence department has completely broken down. Why did the minister fail to prevent this outrageous waste of taxpayers' money?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1996/5/7/jim-hart-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/5546/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3093/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "National Defence",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1996/5/7/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1996%2F5%2F7%2F"
    }
}