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{
    "time": "2011-02-10 14:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Bob Rae (Toronto Centre, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2309389\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, at a time when the issue of rights and democracy is at the heart of politics in Egypt and the Middle East, we now have the spectacle of the government admitting that Rights &amp; Democracy in Canada has spent $1 million on gumshoes connected to the Tory party, on accountants, and on lawyers.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2309390\" data-originallang=\"en\">How does the minister justify this gross waste of public money at a time when there is a crisis in world democracy? What is the minister going to do to finally restore credibility to our own approach to rights and democracy?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2309389\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, au moment o\u00f9 l'enjeu des droits et de la d\u00e9mocratie est au coeur m\u00eame de la crise politique en \u00c9gypte et au Moyen-Orient, voil\u00e0 que le gouvernement admet que l'organisme Droits et D\u00e9mocratie au Canada a vers\u00e9 1 million de dollars \u00e0 des d\u00e9tectives priv\u00e9s li\u00e9s au Parti conservateur, \u00e0 des comptables et \u00e0 des avocats.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2309390\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comment le ministre justifie-t-il ce gaspillage \u00e9hont\u00e9 des deniers publics \u00e0 l'heure o\u00f9 la d\u00e9mocratie mondiale est en pleine crise? Que compte-t-il faire pour restaurer la cr\u00e9dibilit\u00e9 de notre approche en mati\u00e8re de droits et de d\u00e9mocratie?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2011/2/10/bob-rae-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/bob-rae/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/854/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "3737271",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Rights & Democracy",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2011/2/10/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2011%2F2%2F10%2F"
    }
}