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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": "2009-02-10 14:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mrs. Carole Lavall\u00e9e (Saint-Bruno\u2014Saint-Hubert, BQ)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1275601\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, the documents supporting the cuts in funding for culture will not be made public by the <a data-HoCid=\"128706\" href=\"/politicians/james-moore/\" title=\"James Moore\">Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages</a> on the grounds that they are cabinet discussion documents and thus classified as secret. That is pretty weak. Either the documents do not exist or their conclusions do not suit the government. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1275602\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Either way, is the refusal to make these documents public not proof that there was no basis for these cuts? </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1275601\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, les documents qui justifient les compressions dans le financement de la culture ne seront pas rendus publics par le <a data-HoCid=\"128706\" href=\"/politicians/james-moore/\" title=\"James Moore\">ministre du Patrimoine canadien et des Langues officielles</a> sous pr\u00e9texte que ce sont des d\u00e9lib\u00e9rations du Cabinet et que ces documents sont class\u00e9s secrets. Ce n'est pas fort. De deux choses l'une: ou bien les documents n'existent pas, ou bien leurs conclusions ne conviennent pas au gouvernement. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1275602\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Dans les deux cas, le refus de rendre publics ces documents n'est-il pas la preuve qu'il n'y avait aucun fondement \u00e0 ces coupes? </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2009/2/10/carole-lavallee-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/carole-lavallee/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1514/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2594829",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Culture",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2009/2/10/",
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}
}