Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1999-12-01 14:45:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Jim Abbott (Kootenay\u2014Columbia, Ref.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, in 1997 Corporal Robert Read discovered evidence of a cover-up by RCMP officers in a visa scam investigation in Canada's Hong Kong office. He made serious allegations of criminal misconduct but he could not get the RCMP to review his allegations. Read has been told he is being suspended for repeating his allegations in the province this summer, yet the RCMP still has not investigated the cover-up.</p>\n<p>Will the solicitor general appoint a special prosecutor to investigate these serious charges?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1999/12/1/jim-abbott-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/jim-abbott/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2481/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Rcmp",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1999/12/1/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1999%2F12%2F1%2F"
    }
}