Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1999-04-29 14:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Bill Blaikie (Winnipeg\u2014Transcona, NDP)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, my question is for either the Minister of National Defence or the Deputy Prime Minister.</p>\n<p>Both will know that there has been a number of votes in the U.S. House of Representatives. One of those votes has created a situation in which it is clear that the American president would need to have a vote and the approval of Congress in order to send ground troops into Kosovo in a non-permissive way.</p>\n<p>I ask the Deputy Prime Minister or the Minister of National Defence if a similar commitment could be made here so that Canadians can know that their democracy is not inferior to American democracy, so that before ground troops would be sent into Kosovo in a non-permissive way there would be a\u2014</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1999/4/29/bill-blaikie-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/30/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3119/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Kosovo",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1999/4/29/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1999%2F4%2F29%2F"
    }
}