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This is a single
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": "2020-03-10 14:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Phil McColeman (Brantford\u2014Brant, CPC)",
"fr": "M. Phil McColeman (Brantford\u2014Brant, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6095825\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, there is a backlog of over 44,000 veterans who are waiting for their disability benefits applications to be processed. Behind each one of these applications is a veteran trapped in a benefits backlog boondoggle of the government's own making. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6095826\" data-originallang=\"en\">Many veterans have been waiting for over two years. When will the backlog be cleared?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6095825\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, plus de 44 000 anciens combattants attendent que leurs demandes de prestations d'invalidit\u00e9 soient trait\u00e9es. Dans chacun de ces dossiers, il y a un ancien combattant pris dans le cafouillis des retards dans le traitement des demandes de prestations enti\u00e8rement provoqu\u00e9 par le gouvernement actuel. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6095826\" data-originallang=\"en\">De nombreux anciens combattants attendent depuis plus de deux ans. Quand cet arri\u00e9r\u00e9 sera-t-il rattrap\u00e9?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2020/3/10/phil-mccoleman-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/phil-mccoleman/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4260/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10801995",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Veterans Affairs",
"fr": "Les anciens combattants"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2020/3/10/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2020%2F3%2F10%2F"
}
}