Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "2002-11-20 14:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Charlie Penson (Peace River, Canadian Alliance)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, there is simply no excuse for this. The government was warned repeatedly about the dangers of GST fraud, yet it failed to plug those loopholes.</p>\n<p>Even today the Liberals talk about auditing, investigating and prosecuting instead of closing the loopholes that led to these scams in the first place.</p>\n<p>What we are talking about is fraud that may have cost Canadians over $1 billion. That buys a lot of Sea Kings and a lot of hospital beds.</p>\n<p>When will the government do something concrete to stop the flow of free money to criminals and con artists?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2002/11/20/charlie-penson-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/3017/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1564/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Goods and Services Tax",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2002/11/20/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2002%2F11%2F20%2F"
    }
}