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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": "1998-06-01 14:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. St\u00e9phane Dion (President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, there are two sources of funding involved. First, there is the community component of the official languages support program, which benefits 90% of francophones outside Quebec. In this case, the Government of Canada could withdraw its grant should the mandate not be fulfilled. This remedy has never been used so far, but we have never ruled it out.</p>\n<p>There is also a court challenges program, but it is only for challenges concerning the Charter. It apparently does not apply to the president of Alliance Quebec, as he does not seem to understand that, on the contrary, the Charter safeguards the possibility of limiting access to English-speaking schools for as long as necessary to protect the French language in North America.</p>",
"fr": ""
},
"url": "/debates/1998/6/1/stephane-dion-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/stephane-dion/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3686/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Question Period",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Alliance Quebec",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/1998/6/1/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1998%2F6%2F1%2F"
}
}