Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "2000-04-10 14:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Val Meredith (South Surrey\u2014White Rock\u2014Langley, Canadian Alliance)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, HRDC, EDC, regional development, the millennium bureau and now Option Canada spent billions of taxpayers' dollars and the Liberals see them all as one big vote-buying slush fund. But it is not just that the Liberals are spending billions of taxpayers' dollars to buy votes, they ignore their own rules in doing so.</p>\n<p>With the millennium bureau less than 1% of the grants have been audited. Why does parliament pass laws and regulations to monitor the expenditure of taxpayers' dollars and yet the Liberal government just ignores them?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2000/4/10/val-meredith-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/4156/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2495/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Millennium Bureau Of Canada",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2000/4/10/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2000%2F4%2F10%2F"
    }
}