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{
    "time": "1999-04-26 14:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Marcel Mass\u00e9 (President of the Treasury Board and Minister responsible for Infrastructure, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, once again the lawyers, the actuaries, the accountants and the auditor general all say that this surplus belongs to the taxpayers.</p>\n<p>The Reform Party, of all parties, the party that says it is dedicated to the taxpayers, how does it dare want to take that money away from those it truly and legally belongs to, the taxpayers? How does it dare do this?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1999/4/26/marcel-masse-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/6347/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3278/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Pensions",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1999/4/26/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1999%2F4%2F26%2F"
    }
}