Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "2003-09-16 14:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Michel Gauthier (Roberval, BQ)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, when the Prime Minister says that a few million dollars may have been stolen, but that since this saved Canada, it is not serious, I would like to remind him that in 1970, it was also said in his circles that it was OK to burn barns in Quebec and steal books from PQ members. It was not serious, it saved Canada.</p>\n<p>Does the Prime Minister remember that a public inquiry was commissioned at the time\u2014the MacDonald Commission\u2014and that it revealed a fair bit about the government he belonged to?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2003/9/16/michel-gauthier-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/116/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3311/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Government Contracts",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2003/9/16/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2003%2F9%2F16%2F"
    }
}