Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1998-05-11 14:50:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Herb Gray (Deputy Prime Minister, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>First of all, Mr. Speaker, I would like to check the total transcript that the hon. member is referring to.</p>\n<p>Secondly, to make it happen there has to be a constitutional amendment and I do not see any resolutions in any of the provinces to amend the Constitution. Until the Constitution is amended the Prime Minister has an obligation to follow the Constitution.</p>\n<p>Simply electing people who then have to be appointed for life does not change the Senate, it just compounds what the hon. member is complaining about.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1998/5/11/herb-gray-6/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/4873/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3243/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "The Senate",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1998/5/11/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1998%2F5%2F11%2F"
    }
}