Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1999-05-10 14:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Anne McLellan (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, if the hon. member has bothered to read the response tabled in the House today, he knows that our response reinforces the principle of the best interests of the children.</p>\n<p>One of the things the hon. member seems to forget in this discussion is that custody and access and parental responsibilities are a shared jurisdiction between the federal government and the provinces and territories.</p>\n<p>Unlike the Reform Party that preaches provincial rights, we actually want to work with the provinces to ensure we have a family law system that does act in the best interests of all children.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1999/5/10/anne-mclellan-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/1951/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2460/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "The Family",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1999/5/10/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1999%2F5%2F10%2F"
    }
}