Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1999-06-10 15:45:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Nelson Riis",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>On bended knee or worse.</p>\n<p>The next item would be water. Once again we have seen the government of Canada cave in to American pressure in terms of access to fresh water. The House passed a unanimous motion to call for an immediate moratorium on freshwater exports. Did that happen? No. We ran down to the United States and said \u201cLet us set up a committee to study ways and means of exporting water from Canada to the United States\u201d. This is embarrassing.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1999/6/10/nelson-riis-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/4051/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3083/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Foreign Publishers Advertising Services Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1999/6/10/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1999%2F6%2F10%2F"
    }
}