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{
    "time": "2009-05-26 10:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Gilles Duceppe (Laurier\u2014Sainte-Marie, BQ)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1499395\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, in response to your ruling, I withdraw my comments. I wish to point out that I would never have used such words had those used by the <a data-HoCid=\"125159\" href=\"/politicians/christian-paradis/\" title=\"Christian Paradis\">Minister of Public Works and Government Services</a> the day before been disallowed. Now that he has been asked to retract his remarks, I shall retract mine as well.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1499395\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, \u00e0 la suite de votre jugement, je retire mes propos. Je veux dire que je ne les aurais certainement pas utilis\u00e9s si ceux prononc\u00e9s par le <a data-HoCid=\"125159\" href=\"/politicians/christian-paradis/\" title=\"Christian Paradis\">ministre des Travaux publics et des Services gouvernementaux</a> n'avaient pas \u00e9t\u00e9 permis la veille. Maintenant qu'il doit les retirer aussi, je les retire \u00e9galement. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2009/5/26/gilles-duceppe-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/gilles-duceppe/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/403/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2779058",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Routine Proceedings",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Points of Order",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Unparliamentary Language--Speaker's Ruling",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2009/5/26/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2009%2F5%2F26%2F"
    }
}