Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "2003-02-07 11:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Elinor Caplan (Minister of National Revenue, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, this is a very serious issue and I object to the frivolity that the member opposite engages in when he suggests a number, while in fact there is no evidence to suggest that the number which the member keeps repeating is at all accurate. There is no evidence to suggest that at all. I have told him that several times in the House.</p>\n<p>I will continue to say that we have a special investigations unit that is looking into fraud. We have 1,000 people doing that. We have 5,000 auditors. We are doing our job.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2003/2/7/elinor-caplan-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/4818/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2635/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Goods and Services Tax",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2003/2/7/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2003%2F2%2F7%2F"
    }
}