Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1998-04-03 11:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Preston Manning (Leader of the Opposition, Ref.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, the health minister has used the word \u201ccompassion\u201d dozens of times this week when he was asked why he abandoned thousands of hepatitis C victims.</p>\n<p>The arguments he advances for justifying the government's position are legal arguments, accounting arguments and political arguments. There is no real compassion in either the government's position or in the minister's deeds.</p>\n<p>Where is the compassion in abandoning tens of thousands of victims of poisoned blood who were infected through government negligence?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1998/4/3/preston-manning-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/preston-manning/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3055/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Hepatitis C",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1998/4/3/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1998%2F4%2F3%2F"
    }
}