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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": "2008-11-20 14:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Mike Lake (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industry, CPC)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1243628\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I would like to respond to that question by reading a statement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1243629\" data-originallang=\"en\">During question period today we have heard a lot of rhetoric, but it is important to understand that our leader is the envy of the world in terms of the way he is approaching the economic situation. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1243630\" data-originallang=\"en\"> In July, the London <em>Telegraph</em> wrote, concerning the economies of the G-8: </p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"1243631\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Of all the leaders, only [the Prime Minister]...is able to point to a popular and successful record in office....the Canadian Tories are a model of how to behave during a downturn....If the rest of the world had comported itself with similar modesty and prudence, we might not be in this mess. </p>\n</blockquote>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1243628\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'aimerais r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 cette question en faisant lecture d'une d\u00e9claration. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1243629\" data-originallang=\"en\">Aujourd'hui, \u00e0 la p\u00e9riode des questions, nous avons entendu beaucoup de belles paroles, mail il est important de comprendre que notre chef fait l'envie du monde entier pour ce qui est de sa fa\u00e7on d'aborder la situation \u00e9conomique. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1243630\" data-originallang=\"en\">En juillet, dans le <em>London Telegraph</em> on pouvait lire ce qui suit dans un article sur les \u00e9conomies du G8: </p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"1243631\" data-originallang=\"en\"> De tous les chefs d'\u00c9tat, [le premier ministre] [...] est le seul \u00e0 pouvoir qualifier son bilan de populaire et r\u00e9ussi [...] les conservateurs du Canada offrent un mod\u00e8le quant \u00e0 la fa\u00e7on de r\u00e9agir face \u00e0 un ralentissement \u00e9conomique [...] Si le reste du monde s'\u00e9tait comport\u00e9 avec autant de modestie et de prudence, nous ne serions peut-\u00eatre pas confront\u00e9s \u00e0 un tel g\u00e2chis. </p>\n</blockquote>"
},
"url": "/debates/2008/11/20/mike-lake-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/mike-lake/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/466/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2556938",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "The Economy",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2008/11/20/",
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}
}