Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1998-11-27 11:45:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Peter MacKay (Pictou\u2014Antigonish\u2014Guysborough, PC)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, when Liberal fundraiser Pierre Corbeil was convicted of influence peddling based on information received from one of the Treasury Board president's own employees, the government's response was \u201cThe file is closed\u201d.</p>\n<p>Yet slippery staffer Jacques Roy kept his job with the Treasury Board president and the government provided no assurances that the confidential information would be kept out of the hands of the Liberal Party of Canada.</p>\n<p>Will the Deputy Prime Minister explain to those applicants for government funding how their names can be protected from Liberal kickback artists?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1998/11/27/peter-mackay-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/peter-mackay/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2546/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Treasury Board",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1998/11/27/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1998%2F11%2F27%2F"
    }
}