Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "2001-09-17 16:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Leon Benoit",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, that is an excellent question and a question that people are very concerned about. I have already talked about numbers; down from 90,000 to 50,000 in the last 9 years and dropping; funding down 30% in real terms from 9 years ago; equipment mostly in a state of serious disrepair.</p>\n<p>General MacKenzie certainly is one individual I respect and I respect what he says on defence issues. However we could go through the list of former top military people and military think tanks and each one of them will say exactly the same thing, which is my concern, that this is widely known to be a problem and it has been pointed out over the last eight years. We have to deal with it now.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2001/9/17/leon-benoit-5/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/leon-benoit/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1560/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Attack on the United States",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2001/9/17/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2001%2F9%2F17%2F"
    }
}