Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "2001-04-02 14:45:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Bill Casey (Cumberland\u2014Colchester, PC)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, on Friday softwood mills across Atlantic Canada were flooded with a seven page fax from the Minister for International Trade outlining the new export monitoring rules they must follow starting the very next working day.</p>\n<p>The minister had five years' warning that this was coming. Why did he wait until the very last day to saddle the industry with these new surprise rules and no time to comply, or is this just a prelude to an export tax?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2001/4/2/bill-casey-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/bill-casey/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2541/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Lumber Industry",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2001/4/2/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2001%2F4%2F2%2F"
    }
}