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{
    "time": "2016-05-09 15:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Rh\u00e9al Fortin (Rivi\u00e8re-du-Nord, BQ)",
        "fr": "M. Rh\u00e9al Fortin (Rivi\u00e8re-du-Nord, BQ)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4327577\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, Quebec's largest institutions are united on the two critical issues of diafiltered milk and energy east, but this government is tuning them out. Canada's Parliament is completely indifferent to the consensus in Quebec. The 40 MPs from Quebec in government are the government's ambassadors to Quebec, but they are just as indifferent.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4327578\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Are we to understand that by refusing to respect the consensus in Quebec, the government is saying that the only way for Quebec to have a say in what happens on its own land is to gain independence?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4327577\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, encore aujourd'hui, sur les deux enjeux cruciaux que sont le lait diafiltr\u00e9 et \u00c9nergie Est, les plus grandes institutions qu\u00e9b\u00e9coises parlent d'une seule voix, manifestement sans se m\u00e9riter l'attention de ce gouvernement. Le consensus qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois vient d'\u00e9chouer au Parlement canadien devant l'indiff\u00e9rence la plus totale et avec l'aval des 40 d\u00e9put\u00e9s qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois au pouvoir qui se comportent en ambassadeurs du gouvernement au Qu\u00e9bec. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4327578\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Devons-nous comprendre que, en refusant de respecter les consensus qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, le gouvernement souhaite confirmer que la seule fa\u00e7on pour le Qu\u00e9bec de d\u00e9cider de ce qui se passe sur son territoire est d'acqu\u00e9rir son ind\u00e9pendance?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2016/5/9/rheal-fortin-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/rheal-fortin/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4449/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8904870",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": "Questions Orales"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Quebec",
        "fr": "Le Qu\u00e9bec"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2016/5/9/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2016%2F5%2F9%2F"
    }
}