Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1999-10-19 14:45:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Leon E. Benoit (Lakeland, Ref.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, the government should be taking control of this issue. Already one of the four bogus refugees has disappeared and the rest are sure to follow. The minister thinks it is okay to detain claimants until they are deemed not to be refugees and then let them go.</p>\n<p>This does not make sense to me. It does not make sense to most Canadians. Can the minister explain how this makes sense to her?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1999/10/19/leon-benoit-2/",
    "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"
    }
}