Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "2004-10-07 16:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Claude Drouin (Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister (Rural Communities), Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Madam Speaker, I greatly appreciate the opportunity afforded to me by my colleague from Glengarry\u2014Prescott\u2014Russell to explain exactly where the danger lies. This runs counter to what the population wants and what it asked for this past June 28, to see its best interests served as well as possible, without partisan politics.</p>\n<p>I think they will be in the majority in committees, and they will be able to work to improve what the Liberal government will be wanting to do. That is where they ought to focus. But instead they are prepared to force another general election, and I find it deplorable that the ones who will suffer will be the taxpayers, considering how much we know an election costs.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2004/10/7/claude-drouin-4/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/3608/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2662/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Speech from the Throne",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2004/10/7/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2004%2F10%2F7%2F"
    }
}