Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1998-02-04 14:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Michel Bellehumeur (Berthier\u2014Montcalm, BQ)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Prime Minister.</p>\n<p>On the evening of the 1980 referendum, Pierre Elliott Trudeau said \u201cthis evening we are experiencing both the most beautiful and the most painful sides of democracy\u201d.</p>\n<p>By now trying to impose a new legal framework for the next Quebec referendum, is the Prime Minister not in full contradiction with his former boss, who recognized that the referendum of 1980 was held in an eminently democratic fashion?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1998/2/4/michel-bellehumeur-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/4961/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3262/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Reference To Supreme Court",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1998/2/4/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1998%2F2%2F4%2F"
    }
}