Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1999-10-18 14:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Lawrence MacAulay (Solicitor General of Canada, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, in our correctional system we have minimum, maximum and medium institutions. When a person is convicted, Correctional Services Canada evaluates the offender. If he is put in a maximum institution and there is some improvement, he goes to a medium institution. Before he is released to society he is put in a minimum security institution. This is done for public safety reasons.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1999/10/18/lawrence-macaulay-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/lawrence-macaulay/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3250/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Prisons",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1999/10/18/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1999%2F10%2F18%2F"
    }
}