Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1997-03-18 14:50:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Keith Martin (Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca, Ref.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, documents from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada show very clearly that the government is using taxpayers' money to fund research into increasing the addictive potential of cigarettes. I quote: \"They want to improve the level of nicotine and focus on higher nicotine content\".</p>\n<p>My question is for the Prime Minister. As leader of the government how could the Prime Minister possibly justify using Canadian taxpayers' money to find ways in which to increase the addictive power of cigarettes?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1997/3/18/keith-martin-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/keith-martin/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3080/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Tobacco Products",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1997/3/18/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1997%2F3%2F18%2F"
    }
}