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{
    "time": "2010-10-08 13:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Mark Holland (Ajax\u2014Pickering, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2096260\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, in an interview broadcast on CTV Newsnet on March 5, 2008, I made certain statements regarding Chris Froggatt, then chief of staff to Canada's environment minister, and communications between Mr. Froggatt and the Ontario Provincial Police.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2096261\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I have since determined that my concerns regarding Mr. Froggatt were unwarranted. I apologize to Mr. Froggatt and retract the statements that may have caused him and his family grief.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2096260\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, dans une entrevue accord\u00e9e le 5 mars 2008 au r\u00e9seau des nouvelles de la cha\u00eene CTV, j'ai fait certaines d\u00e9clarations concernant Chris Froggatt, alors chef de cabinet du ministre de l'Environnement du Canada, au sujet de certaines communications qu'il aurait eues avec la Police provinciale de l'Ontario. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2096261\" data-originallang=\"en\"> J'ai depuis \u00e9tabli que mes pr\u00e9occupations \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard de M. Froggatt \u00e9taient injustifi\u00e9es. Je lui pr\u00e9sente donc mes excuses et je retire les propos qui auraient pu porter atteinte \u00e0 sa r\u00e9putation et nuire \u00e0 sa famille. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2010/10/8/mark-holland-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/mark-holland/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1343/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "3360407",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Private Members' Business",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Points of Order",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Retraction of Statements",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2010/10/8/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2010%2F10%2F8%2F"
    }
}