Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "2004-02-04 14:45:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Reg Alcock (President of the Treasury Board and Minister responsible for the Canadian Wheat Board, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, I assume the member is referring to the regional hiring policies in the public service, which have been discussed at some length.</p>\n<p>They are applied to lower levels in the public service because of the huge number of applications we get. It is enormously expensive to process this and it was an attempt to bring some balance to the process. It is a reasonable accommodation.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2004/2/4/reg-alcock-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/2182/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3117/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Public Service",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2004/2/4/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2004%2F2%2F4%2F"
    }
}