Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "2007-11-22 14:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Jos\u00e9e Verner (Minister of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women and Official Languages, CPC)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"781338\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I repeat that our government is committed to the country's linguistic duality. The 2007 budget set aside an additional $430 million to help minority language communities.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"781339\" data-originallang=\"fr\">As the member knows full well, the matter is before the courts. I will not comment any further.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"781338\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je r\u00e9it\u00e8re l'engagement de notre gouvernement envers la dualit\u00e9 linguistique au pays. Le budget de 2007 faisait \u00e9tat de 30 millions de dollars de plus pour venir en aide aux communaut\u00e9s linguistiques en situation minoritaire.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"781339\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Maintenant, comme le d\u00e9put\u00e9 le sait tr\u00e8s bien, la question est devant les tribunaux. Je ne commenterai pas davantage.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2007/11/22/josee-verner-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/josee-verner/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/604/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2216022",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Official Languages",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2007/11/22/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2007%2F11%2F22%2F"
    }
}