Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1998-05-12 14:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Gilles Duceppe (Laurier\u2014Sainte-Marie, BQ)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, yesterday, in response to the devastating statistics on poverty released by the National Council of Welfare, the Minister of Human Resources Development could find nothing better to say than this, and I quote \u201cCanada no longer has a deficit, so poor families are richer\u201d.</p>\n<p>How could the minister make such a ridiculous and insensitive statement with respect to the millions of individuals who are victims of his government's policies?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1998/5/12/gilles-duceppe-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/gilles-duceppe/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3287/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Poverty",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1998/5/12/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1998%2F5%2F12%2F"
    }
}