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speech (committee meeting) 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": "2008-06-04 16:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Beno\u00eet Pelletier",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1158814\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Clearly, this motion was inspired by the Upper House Reference of 1980. Obviously, we are referring to amendments to the essential characteristics of the Senate. To this end, we defer to the Upper House Reference, which is inspired by common sense. The Supreme Court stated that if it was a matter of changing the paint colour and this did not entail many consequences, the decision could probably be made under Ottawa's unilateral amending powers, but if it was a matter of making significant changes to the House, provincial consent would be required. Why? Because the House in question does not belong solely to Ottawa: it belongs to the provinces as well.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1158814\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Il est \u00e9vident que cette motion est inspir\u00e9e du Renvoi relatif \u00e0 la Chambre haute de 1980. Forc\u00e9ment, on parle de toute modification aux caract\u00e9ristiques essentielles du S\u00e9nat. \u00c0 ce sujet, nous nous conformons au renvoi de la Cour supr\u00eame, qui \u00e9tait empreint de bon sens. La Cour supr\u00eame a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9 que dans un cas o\u00f9 il serait question de changer la peinture et que cela n'entra\u00eenait pas beaucoup de cons\u00e9quences, la d\u00e9cision pouvait probablement \u00eatre prise en vertu des pouvoirs de modification unilat\u00e9raux d'Ottawa, mais que s'il \u00e9tait question d'apporter des changements importants \u00e0 la maison, le consentement des provinces serait n\u00e9cessaire. Pourquoi? Parce que la maison dont on parle n'appartient pas seulement \u00e0 Ottawa: elle appartient aussi aux provinces.</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/bill-c-20-39-2/39-2/9/benoit-pelletier-19/",
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"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2510034",
"document_url": "/committees/bill-c-20-39-2/39-2/9/",
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}