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{
    "time": "1999-12-01 14:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Miss Deborah Grey (Edmonton North, Ref.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, the government has absolutely no idea what it is actually spending on health care. It knows that it slashed $21 billion from the health care budget, but other than that the details are getting pretty sketchy.</p>\n<p>The auditor general says that the federal government has no idea whether its health care spending ever makes it to the waiting lines or the emergency rooms. The truth is that it ain't even coming close.</p>\n<p>Why does the government care so little about the health of Canadians that it does not even bother to monitor where Canadian health tax dollars are going?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1999/12/1/deborah-grey-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/3949/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2457/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Health",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1999/12/1/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1999%2F12%2F1%2F"
    }
}