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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2008-11-27 14:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mrs. Carole Lavall\u00e9e (Saint-Bruno\u2014Saint-Hubert, BQ)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1248967\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, the program funded thousands of international tours. The <a data-HoCid=\"128697\" href=\"/politicians/lawrence-cannon/\" title=\"Lawrence Cannon\">Minister of Foreign Affairs</a> has kept silent on this issue; his attitude is the same as that of his Canadian Heritage colleague, who cut other programs and transferred the money to the Olympic torch relay, and who is now refusing to reverse that decision.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1248968\" data-originallang=\"fr\">If the Minister of Foreign Affairs and his cabinet colleagues do not really care about protecting Quebec culture, then why not transfer their jurisdiction over culture and their budgets to the Government of Quebec?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1248967\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, ce programme permettait des milliers de tourn\u00e9es \u00e0 l'\u00e9tranger. L'attitude du <a data-HoCid=\"128697\" href=\"/politicians/lawrence-cannon/\" title=\"Lawrence Cannon\">ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res</a>, qui est compl\u00e8tement silencieux, est semblable \u00e0 celle de son coll\u00e8gue du Patrimoine canadien, qui a coup\u00e9 d'autres programmes et transf\u00e9r\u00e9 l'argent au relais de la flamme olympique, et qui refuse de faire marche arri\u00e8re.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1248968\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Si le ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res et ses coll\u00e8gues du Cabinet sont si peu int\u00e9ress\u00e9s \u00e0 d\u00e9fendre la culture qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise, pourquoi ne transf\u00e8rent-ils pas tous les pouvoirs en mati\u00e8re de culture et leurs budgets au gouvernement du Qu\u00e9bec?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2008/11/27/carole-lavallee-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/carole-lavallee/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1514/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2561341",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Arts and Culture",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2008/11/27/",
"related": {
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}
}