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{
"time": "2010-11-15 14:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Carolyn Bennett (St. Paul's, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2170555\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, despite the best efforts of the House to clean up the practice, the Conservatives continue to circumvent the roles of MP mail-outs and waste thousands of taxpayers' dollars. The member for <a data-HoCid=\"128647\" href=\"/politicians/greg-thompson/\" title=\"Greg Thompson\">New Brunswick Southwest</a> used his franking privileges to ask Conservatives to vote for his hand-picked successor. That successor just happens to be the <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">Prime Minister</a>'s former communications director.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2170556\" data-originallang=\"en\">How can the Conservatives not see that this is cheating?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2170555\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, malgr\u00e9 tous les efforts de la Chambre visant \u00e0 mettre de l'ordre dans les envois postaux des d\u00e9put\u00e9s, les conservateurs continuent de gaspiller des milliers de dollars de l'argent des contribuables. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"128647\" href=\"/politicians/greg-thompson/\" title=\"Greg Thompson\">Nouveau-Brunswick-Sud-Ouest</a> a profit\u00e9 de ses privil\u00e8ges de franchise postale pour demander aux conservateurs de voter pour son successeur, choisi \u00e0 l'avance, et qui est nul autre que l'ancien directeur des communications du <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">premier ministre</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2170556\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les conservateurs ne voient-ils donc pas que c'est de la tricherie?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2010/11/15/carolyn-bennett-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/carolyn-bennett/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2631/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3514497",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Members' Franking Privileges",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2010/11/15/",
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}
}