Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1997-04-17 14:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Gilles Duceppe (Leader of the Opposition, BQ)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, exactly 15 years ago, in 1982, the present Prime Minister</p>\n<p>was in Ottawa, and the Canadian government patriated the Constitution against the wishes of the Government of Quebec, the Quebec National Assembly and the vast majority of Quebecers.</p>\n<p>I would like to ask the Prime Minister or the Acting Prime Minister the following question: How can he say the Constitution of 1982 is legitimate, when Quebec, when no government in Quebec, whether headed by sovereignists or federalists, ever recognized this Constitution?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1997/4/17/gilles-duceppe-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/gilles-duceppe/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3287/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "The Constitution",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1997/4/17/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1997%2F4%2F17%2F"
    }
}