Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1998-12-03 14:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Steve Mahoney (Mississauga West, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Secretary of State for the Status of Women.</p>\n<p>Even as we sit in this House, somewhere in Canada women are being scalded with boiling water, burned, strangled, bludgeoned or beaten, often to death. In the nine years since the brutal murders of 14 young women in Montreal galvanized this nation, can the minister honestly tell this House that there has been any progress at all in the fight to stop violence against women?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1998/12/3/steve-mahoney-4/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/4630/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2599/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Status Of Women",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1998/12/3/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1998%2F12%2F3%2F"
    }
}