Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "2004-12-02 10:55:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Gerry Ritz (Battlefords\u2014Lloydminster, CPC)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Madam Speaker, it is great to have this opposition supply day motion before us today. It is time this debate happened, not just on an emergency basis or in a take note debate like we had one evening.</p>\n<p>A myriad of questions have been asked of the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food over the past fall. He just made a comment about the year 2003. He said that producers in the country benefited from the largesse of the Liberal Party with $4.8 billion, but 2003 was also the worst net income year for Canadian producers in 25 years.</p>\n<p>Could the leader of the Bloc stand and explain where the heck the money went? I know my producers could not trigger it because of the flawed programs and the way they were delivered. Could he explain what happened in Quebec? I know the money goes directly there and then it is disbursed. What happened to the $4.8 billion? We certainly did not trigger it.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2004/12/2/gerry-ritz-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/gerry-ritz/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1528/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Supply",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2004/12/2/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2004%2F12%2F2%2F"
    }
}