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{
    "time": "1999-02-19 11:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Michel Gauthier (Roberval, BQ)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, am I to understand from the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs that there were discussions to convince British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario to change their positions on the social union framework agreement and that a financial argument was never used?</p>\n<p>In other words, they changed their positions without knowing that it would be to their financial advantage.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1999/2/19/michel-gauthier-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/116/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3311/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Social Union Agreement",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1999/2/19/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1999%2F2%2F19%2F"
    }
}