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This is a single
speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "1998-05-12 14:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mrs. Elsie Wayne (Saint John, PC)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, in 1995 the government bowed to U.S. pressure and agreed to lower our sugar quotas into the U.S. from 35,000 tonnes to 5,000 tonnes. After pressure from the sugar industry and the all-party sugar caucus we got it back up to 10,000 tonnes but the U.S. can ship 100,000 tonnes into Canada.</p>\n<p>As a result of this agreement Lantic Sugar in Saint John, New Brunswick announced that it will be closing. This will put 240 more people out of work. What does the Prime Minister have to say to those 240 people, and their families, who will be out of work because this government freely sold out the interests of Canadians for its own convenience?</p>",
"fr": ""
},
"url": "/debates/1998/5/12/elsie-wayne-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/4317/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3130/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Question Period",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Sugar Quotas",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/1998/5/12/",
"related": {
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}
}