Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1999-12-01 15:50:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. John Duncan (Vancouver Island North, Ref.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, I notice from the intervention by the parliamentary secretary that the government at times can interpret acquiescence to mean agreement, because by using federal government spending power it is buying something.</p>\n<p>The member for Mercier talked about duplication of effort and abuse of federal spending power. I would like her to elaborate on how this is an abuse of federal spending power. I am sure she has a couple of examples to elucidate that.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1999/12/1/john-duncan-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/john-duncan/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2500/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Canadian Tourism Commission Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1999/12/1/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1999%2F12%2F1%2F"
    }
}