Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1996-09-19 14:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Yvan Loubier (Saint-Hyacinthe-Bagot, BQ)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, for the past three years, we have been asking the government to get to the bottom of the family trust scandal. It was not until the auditor general recently condemned the scandalous transfer of $2 billion in trust funds to the U.S. tax-free that the Prime Minister finally decided to ask the finance committee to review, to shed light on this matter. The Liberal majority tabled its report yesterday and all they did was attack the auditor general.</p>\n<p>My question is for the Prime Minister. Who is the Prime Minister trying to protect?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1996/9/19/yvan-loubier-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/172/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3316/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Auditor General",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1996/9/19/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1996%2F9%2F19%2F"
    }
}