Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "2005-10-19 14:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Vic Toews (Provencher, CPC)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Ontario police chief told Canadians that lax Liberal laws were strangling and obstructing their efforts to fight crime. International organized crime is using Canada as a base of operations because drug dealers here are sentenced to house arrest instead of real prison sentences.</p>\n<p>Why does the Minister of Justice continue to support house arrest when drug dealers are out on the streets killing our children?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2005/10/19/vic-toews-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/vic-toews/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1306/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Organized Crime",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2005/10/19/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2005%2F10%2F19%2F"
    }
}