Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "2003-10-10 11:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Bill Blaikie (Winnipeg\u2014Transcona, NDP)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, I want to re-engage the Minister of Industry with respect to the contract given to Lockheed Martin for the Canadian census.</p>\n<p>Yesterday the minister said on the way out of the House that the trade agreements made him do it. He knows that the trade agreements did no such thing. The trade agreements do not force the government to contract out the census to anyone.</p>\n<p>I want to ask him why he is hiding behind the trade agreements. While he is at it, if he takes the trade agreements so seriously, can he tell us why the government does not take arms control treaties seriously enough that it is participating in star wars and negotiating with the Americans over NMD? If it took those treaties seriously--</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2003/10/10/bill-blaikie-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/30/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3119/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Government Contracts",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2003/10/10/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2003%2F10%2F10%2F"
    }
}