Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "2003-10-10 11:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. St\u00e9phane Dion (President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, we must help one another. Should the Government of Canada show an unexpected surplus, it should naturally help the provinces. That is how things are done in a federation, when we show solidarity, and that is what we are doing.</p>\n<p>To claim that there is no fiscal pressure is to ignore what is going on around the world, to ignore that the other G-8 countries are showing deficits, and to ignore that just yesterday, France was called to order by the European Union because of its unexpected deficit. Is the hon. member living in the clouds?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2003/10/10/stephane-dion-4/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/stephane-dion/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3686/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Taxation",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2003/10/10/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2003%2F10%2F10%2F"
    }
}