Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1996-06-05 14:55:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mrs. Beryl Gaffney (Nepean, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Secretary of State for Latin America and Africa.</p>\n<p>Reports of attacks on Nigerians working for democratic reform in Nigeria are very disturbing. First, the president-elect has been under detention by the military since 1994 and now, yesterday, the president's wife was gunned down on a street in Lagos.</p>\n<p>Could the secretary of state tell the House how the Canadian government is responding to this tragic and brutal slaying?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1996/6/5/beryl-gaffney-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/7431/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3200/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Nigeria",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1996/6/5/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1996%2F6%2F5%2F"
    }
}