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This is a single
speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2005-05-30 18:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Alexa McDonough",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, I thank the government member for his comments. I am aware that he is very concerned and committed in trying to repair the damage and to do better with respect to the level of education and core funding.</p>\n<p>I know in particular that the member has had a good deal to do with pressing the government to deliver on increased research funds. That has been a very good beginning and in fact one that is seen by education stakeholders as something of a model. I think there are some challenges in it, particularly for smaller regions and smaller institutions but, nevertheless, if the government could begin to do for post-secondary education generally what it has done for research, we would actually begin to get back on the rails.</p>\n<p>I am disappointed that the member has not spoken about what a disaster it is for us to continue with a block transfer. We know that education was trumped again and again by urgent acute health care needs when we had a combined health and social transfer. We need to break it down to a single--</p>",
"fr": ""
},
"url": "/debates/2005/5/30/alexa-mcdonough-10/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/192/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2543/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "",
"h1": {
"en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Budget Implementation Act, 2005",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2005/5/30/",
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}
}