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speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2013-11-21 15:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Jacques Gourde (Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, for Official Languages and for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec, CPC)",
"fr": "M. Jacques Gourde (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire du premier ministre, pour les Langues officielles et pour l'Agence de d\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique du Canada pour les r\u00e9gions du Qu\u00e9bec, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3476905\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member for the fine work she does here in the House.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3476906\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Today, the <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">Prime Minister</a> announced additional help for the town and people of Lac-M\u00e9gantic. We have always said that we will be there for the people of Lac-M\u00e9gantic and, today, we are once again demonstrating that commitment. This new funding will help decontaminate affected sites so that the community can rebuild. We are taking measures to ensure that those responsible for such incidents pay the price, and we will continue to work to improve rail safety in Canada.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3476905\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je tiens \u00e0 remercier ma coll\u00e8gue de son beau travail ici, \u00e0 la Chambre. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3476906\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Aujourd'hui, le <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">premier ministre</a> a annonc\u00e9 une aide suppl\u00e9mentaire pour Lac-M\u00e9gantic et ses habitants. Nous avons toujours dit que nous serions l\u00e0 pour les gens de Lac-M\u00e9gantic et nous d\u00e9montrons une fois de plus notre engagement aujourd'hui. Le soutien annonc\u00e9 aidera \u00e0 d\u00e9contaminer les zones touch\u00e9es afin de permettre la reconstruction de la communaut\u00e9. Nous prenons des mesures pour s'assurer que les responsables de tels \u00e9v\u00e9nements paient la note, et nous continuerons \u00e0 chercher \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 ferroviaire partout au pays.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2013/11/21/jacques-gourde-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/jacques-gourde/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/429/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8147611",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Rail Transportation",
"fr": "Le transport ferroviaire"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2013/11/21/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2013%2F11%2F21%2F"
}
}