Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "2001-02-16 11:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. St\u00e9phane Dion (President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, I do not know what the hon. member is speaking about, but if he is referring to what I asked his leader, I have an obligation to quote what I said:</p>\n<p>Canadians are entitled to hear Mr. Day (the Leader of the Opposition) make his simple statement: \u201cNothing in Canada today justifies secession: not in Quebec, not in the West, not anywhere else in Canada.</p>\n<p>I also said:</p>\n<p>He needs always to make a crystal clear distinction between his ideas for improving the country, including the West's place in Canada, and separatist blackmail.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2001/2/16/stephane-dion-6/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/stephane-dion/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3686/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Government Of Canada",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2001/2/16/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2001%2F2%2F16%2F"
    }
}