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{
    "time": "2012-05-31 14:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Ted Menzies (Minister of State (Finance), CPC)",
        "fr": "L'hon. Ted Menzies (ministre d'\u00c9tat (Finances), PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2899776\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I certainly welcome the question because it has just been answered by the <a data-HoCid=\"165138\" href=\"/politicians/peter-kent/\" title=\"Peter Kent\">Minister of the Environment</a>, who, along with his two other colleagues, the <a data-HoCid=\"170675\" href=\"/politicians/keith-ashfield/\" title=\"Keith Ashfield\">Minister of Fisheries and Oceans</a> and the <a data-HoCid=\"170686\" href=\"/politicians/joe-oliver/\" title=\"Joe Oliver\">Minister of Natural Resources</a>, appeared as witnesses. That is the important part. They have provided information. They have answered questions.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2899777\" data-originallang=\"en\"> We understand that at the subcommittee last night, the critics responsible for those two areas did not even show up.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2899776\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je suis tr\u00e8s heureux de cette question, car le <a data-HoCid=\"165138\" href=\"/politicians/peter-kent/\" title=\"Peter Kent\">ministre de l'Environnement</a> vient d'y r\u00e9pondre. Lui et deux de ses coll\u00e8gues, le <a data-HoCid=\"170675\" href=\"/politicians/keith-ashfield/\" title=\"Keith Ashfield\">ministre des P\u00eaches et des Oc\u00e9ans</a> et le <a data-HoCid=\"170686\" href=\"/politicians/joe-oliver/\" title=\"Joe Oliver\">ministre des Ressources naturelles</a>, sont venus t\u00e9moigner au comit\u00e9. C'est important, car ils ont fourni les renseignements demand\u00e9s, et ils ont r\u00e9pondu aux questions qu'on leur a pos\u00e9es. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2899777\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous croyons comprendre que, pendant la r\u00e9union du sous-comit\u00e9, hier soir, les porte-parole charg\u00e9s de ces deux domaines n'ont m\u00eame pas pris la peine de faire acte de pr\u00e9sence. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2012/5/31/ted-menzies-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/ted-menzies/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1254/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "7615450",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": "Questions Orales"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "The Budget",
        "fr": "Le budget"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2012/5/31/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2012%2F5%2F31%2F"
    }
}