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{
    "time": "1997-03-20 14:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Yvan Bernier (Gasp\u00e9, BQ)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Transport.</p>\n<p>On February 6, I asked the minister about replacing the Magdalen Islands ferry, but he would only say that the ferry service between the islands and P.E.I. would be maintained, without specifying what he will do with the $30 million budget that he has had available for more than two years, but has yet to use.</p>\n<p>Will the Minister of Transport confirm, without beating around the bush, that his government is about to replace the <em>Lucy Maud Montgomery</em> with the old <em>Princess of Acadia</em> to provide ferry service for the Magdalen Islands, and that his government has therefore decided not to buy the Irish ferry <em>Island of Inishmore</em> ?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1997/3/20/yvan-bernier-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/6299/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3275/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Ferry Service",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1997/3/20/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1997%2F3%2F20%2F"
    }
}