Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "2003-06-05 12:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mrs. Bev Desjarlais",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, as a member of the party that my colleague from the Alliance has just spoken about, I find it annoying, if not insulting, to suggest that we would deal with something as serious as bank mergers, that have affected our communities greatly, by misleading the House as to what we understood was a ruling by the Speaker.</p>\n<p>My colleague from Regina--Qu'Appelle asked for unlimited time. Although I was sitting in the lobby when it was approved, I was of the impression that it was unlimited time. I was in the House when a member of the governing party said that if we wanted to request it again that consent would be given, and that is what took place.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2003/6/5/bev-desjarlais-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/3175/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2509/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Routine Proceedings",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Committees of the House",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2003/6/5/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2003%2F6%2F5%2F"
    }
}