Speech (House debate)

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.

Content

Get this resource as raw JSON.

See the corresponding webpage.

{
    "time": "1996-12-11 15:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Jim Silye (Calgary Centre, Ref.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, the second petition contains 139 signatures on behalf of the Don't Tax Reading Coalition.</p>\n<p>They call on the government to demonstrate its commitment to education and literacy by eliminating sales tax on reading materials under the proposed harmonized sales tax.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1996/12/11/jim-silye-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/3930/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3051/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Routine Proceedings",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Petitions",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1996/12/11/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1996%2F12%2F11%2F"
    }
}