Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1997-12-05 11:50:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Maurice Vellacott (Wanuskewin, Ref.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, the supposed Minister of Health, a former lawyer, has become pretty good at dragging his government into the law courts and paying out lots of money to lawyers for the Airbus boondoggle, for the obstruction of Krever, in the future for stonewalling hepatitis C victims.</p>\n<p>If the government exempts auto racing in the Tobacco Act, other groups will be sprinting to the courts. He knows that. What possible defence will this government offer at that time in court for exempting one event but not others?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1997/12/5/maurice-vellacott-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/maurice-vellacott/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2744/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Tobacco Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1997/12/5/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1997%2F12%2F5%2F"
    }
}