Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "2005-05-16 14:10:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Fran\u00e7oise Boivin (Gatineau, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, what a pleasure to see the Bloc-Conservative alliance back in the House after the holiday it gave itself last week at taxpayers' expense.</p>\n<p>While Liberal and NDP MPs were at work last week, hearing witnesses in committee or attending to the affairs of the nation, the members of the Bloc-Conservative alliance were not in the House.</p>\n<p>On this side of the House, working means acting in the interest of Canadians. This cannot be said of the Bloc or the Conservatives. They came back \u201cto work\u201d in order to destroy the Atlantic accord, to destroy the national child care system, to destroy the agreement on health care, to destroy the new deal for cities and communities, to name only a few.</p>\n<p>As regards the Bloc, which claims to be working in the interest of Quebeckers, its leader is in such a hurry to advance the cause of separatism that he is prepared to kill every initiative he claims to defend: the Kyoto protocol, equalization, social transfers for health and regional economic development.</p>\n<p>Is that what work means to the Bloc?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2005/5/16/francoise-boivin-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/francoise-boivin/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1472/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Statements By Members",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "House of Commons",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2005/5/16/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2005%2F5%2F16%2F"
    }
}