Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "2002-12-04 14:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Garry Breitkreuz (Yorkton\u2014Melville, Canadian Alliance)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, let me tell the minister about his policy.</p>\n<p>The Auditor General reported that the gun registry has cost 500 times more than what Parliament and the public was originally promised. The RCMP has been registering handguns since 1934, but firearms homicides with handguns have doubled over the past 30 years.</p>\n<p>Clearly, registration does not lower homicide rates. Obviously this is bad policy. Given all of this, why not just scrap the program?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2002/12/4/garry-breitkreuz-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/garry-breitkreuz/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1843/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Firearms Registry",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2002/12/4/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2002%2F12%2F4%2F"
    }
}