Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1999-10-19 14:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Leon E. Benoit (Lakeland, Ref.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, after processing only four of the six hundred migrants who arrived on our shores this summer, the IRB has denied all four refugee claims and then released them. I want to repeat that. It has deemed they are not refugees and then released them.</p>\n<p>It would seem that the government is determined to assist the efforts of organized crime by releasing claimants whether or not they are refugees. How could the minister allow bogus refugees to be released in Canada, knowing that they are likely to disappear?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1999/10/19/leon-benoit-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/leon-benoit/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2463/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Immigration",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1999/10/19/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1999%2F10%2F19%2F"
    }
}