Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1998-03-19 14:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Jim Hart (Okanagan\u2014Coquihalla, Ref.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, let me read to members from a fiction novel: \u201cI didn't want to be trapped into making decisions on patronage, local contracts and appointments that cause so much friction and bad blood\u201d. Members are probably asking where that comes from.</p>\n<p>That fairy tale came from page 196 of the Prime Minister's own book called <em>Straight from the Heart</em> . If the Prime Minister will not listen to Canadians about patronage, for goodness' sake, will he at least listen to his ghost writer?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1998/3/19/jim-hart-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/5546/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2487/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "The Senate",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1998/3/19/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1998%2F3%2F19%2F"
    }
}