Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1999-06-10 14:00:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Ted McWhinney (Vancouver Quadra, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, we welcome the military ceasefire in Yugoslavia on the basis of the G-8 countries' recent peace proposals.</p>\n<p>We welcome the UN security council's vote today by 14 to nil with one abstention, authorizing immediate peacekeeping and peacemaking activities under the aegis of the United Nations and in full compliance with the United Nations charter.</p>\n<p>These are objectives which the Canadian government had actively pursued from the beginning of the conflict.</p>\n<p>Our Canadian Armed Forces should become fully engaged in the specialist peacekeeping activities, including clearance of landmines, in which they have excelled in past UN missions.</p>\n<p>Canadian involvement in the return of refugees, in rebuilding infrastructure destroyed or damaged in recent military operations and in restoration of economic and social stability on a larger regional basis should follow.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1999/6/10/ted-mcwhinney-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/5642/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3104/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Statements By Members",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Yugoslavia",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1999/6/10/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1999%2F6%2F10%2F"
    }
}